Hellman & Friedman

Hellman & Friedman, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm well respected for its distinctive investment philosophy and approach. Its offices are located in San Francisco, London, and New York. Its objective is to invest long-term equity capital to support the strategic and financial objectives of outstanding management teams operating businesses with defensible positions in growing markets. Over lifetime, it has distinguished ourselves as a flexible source of capital and a value-added partner. Its team consists of over 45 investment professionals, including 18 managing directors with an average tenure with the Firm of over ten years. This allows them to spend substantial time working with the companies in which they invest. Limited partner investors in its funds include many of the largest U.S. and international corporate pension funds, U.S. state pension funds, university endowments and foundations.

Gary Bischoping

Partner

Lauren Cummings

Managing Director

Brian D. Doyle

Managing Director

Stefan Goetz

MD - London Office

Philip Hammarskjold

Managing Director

Patrick Healy

CEO

Sameer Narang

Partner

Zita Saurel

Managing Director

David Tunnell

Partner, Investment Committee

48 past transactions

PointClickCare

Secondary Market in 2022
PointClickCare's web-based products and services are uniquely designed to help long-term care providers manage the complete lifecycle of resident care. The company serves over 5,000 facilities throughout North America, from single-home independent facilities to seven of the ten largest operators. PointClickCare's SaaS offering seamlessly integrates clinical, billing, and administrative processes to maximize reimbursements, enhance the quality of care, improve operating efficiencies and increase staff productivity and satisfaction.

Splunk

Post in 2022
Splunk is a leading software company based in San Francisco that specializes in analyzing machine data to provide Operational Intelligence for security, IT, and business applications. The company offers solutions that facilitate log management, application management, enterprise security, and compliance, catering primarily to enterprise clients. With more than 12,000 customers across over 110 countries, including over 90% of the Fortune 100, Splunk's products are available in both cloud and on-premises formats. The company generates revenue through the sale of software licenses, cloud subscriptions, and maintenance and support services, positioning itself as a key player in the markets of security and full-stack monitoring and analysis.

zooplus

Acquisition in 2021
zooplus operates as an online retailer for pet products.

Medline Industries

Private Equity Round in 2021
Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States, providing more than 350,000 products that serve the entire continuum of care. Our innovative products and programs can be found in most hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, physician offices, home care dealers, home health agencies and retail outlets.

Enverus

Acquisition in 2021
Enverus develops a SaaS-based data analytics platform for the oil and gas industry. The company's solutions deliver value across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors, enabling the industry to be more collaborative, efficient, and competitive. Its predictive and prescriptive decision platform combines intelligence, analytics, tools, and services in one seamless system to deliver value at every stage of the exploration and production process.

Cordis

Acquisition in 2021
Developer and manufacturer of interventional vascular medical devices headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida. The company specializes in the development and production of minimally-invasive cardiovascular technology products including drug-eluting stents, catheters, guidewires, and vena cava filters for the treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular diseases, enabling pharmacies, hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories and physician offices to focus on patient care while reducing costs and enhancing efficiency.

PointClickCare

Venture Round in 2021
PointClickCare's web-based products and services are uniquely designed to help long-term care providers manage the complete lifecycle of resident care. The company serves over 5,000 facilities throughout North America, from single-home independent facilities to seven of the ten largest operators. PointClickCare's SaaS offering seamlessly integrates clinical, billing, and administrative processes to maximize reimbursements, enhance the quality of care, improve operating efficiencies and increase staff productivity and satisfaction.

Vantage Group Holdings

Private Equity Round in 2020
Vantage Group Holdings offers property catastrophe reinsurance as well as specialty property reinsurance.

Checkmarx

Acquisition in 2020
Checkmarx is trusted by enterprises worldwide to secure their application development from code to cloud. Our consolidated platform and services balance the dynamic needs of enterprises by improving security and reducing TCO, while simultaneously building trust between AppSec, developers, and CISOs. At Checkmarx, we believe it’s not just about finding risk, but remediating it across the entire application footprint and software supply chain with one seamless process for all relevant stakeholders. We are honored to serve more than 1,800 customers, including 40 percent of all Fortune 100 companies.

AutoScout24

Acquisition in 2019
AutoScout24 GmbH is a leading online marketplace for vehicles in Europe, offering a comprehensive platform for trading cars, motorcycles, and trucks. Established in 1998 and based in Munich, Germany, the platform caters to private customers, dealers, and manufacturers, providing access to approximately 2 million vehicles across various categories, including new and used cars, motorbikes, and commercial vehicles. Additionally, AutoScout24 facilitates the comparison and booking of workshop services through its dedicated portal. The service attracts around 17.1 million users annually and is utilized by approximately 40,000 dealers across Europe. AutoScout24 is part of the Scout24 Group, which includes several other brands, and is affiliated with Deutsche Telekom Group.

Action

Acquisition in 2019
Action, a Zwaagdijk-Oost, the Netherlands-based retailer. Established in 1993, Action has a wide and varied product range that includes household and office supplies, cosmetics, food, toys, textiles, glass, porcelain and pottery, seasonal, decorative and DIY. The company currently has more than 250 stores across the Benelux and Germany and more than 7,000 employees.

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)

Acquisition in 2019
UUltimate Software’s UltiPro® cloud solutions for HR, payroll, and talent are inherently designed to improve the employee experience. Powered by Xander®, Ultimate’s portfolio of “People First” artificial intelligence technologies, UltiPro helps organizations develop highly productive and satisfied workforces. With UltiPro’s personalized recruiting and convenient onboarding capabilities, companies can make positive first impressions and establish long-term relationships. UltiPro makes it easy for HR to actively manage employee files—anytime, anywhere. Employees can access their personal, pay, and benefits information directly from UltiPro, and administrators can rapidly calculate and process accurate payroll. A flexible, configurable solution, UltiPro has workforce management tools to serve businesses of all sizes, and intuitive features and tools for ongoing compensation, performance, and succession management—from predicting top performers to building better leaders. UltiPro also offers a modern approach to learning that fosters career development, and organizations can use UltiPro’s advanced survey solutions to measure how employees truly feel about work. Plus, employees can get personalized, on-demand support for HR-related requests. Most importantly, UltiPro is supported by powerful business intelligence across its solutions to help drive smarter, people-focused results. Ultimate is committed to putting people first, always. This core principle drives its award-winning culture, products, and services—delivering a customer experience that’s personalized, proactive, and goes beyond software support. Founded in 1990 and based in Weston, Florida, Ultimate has ranked in the top 25 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For since 2012. The company serves thousands of customers in diverse industries managing millions of people worldwide.

Trade Me

Acquisition in 2018
Trade Me Group is an online marketplace and classified advertising platform in New Zealand. This includes auctions and fixed-priced sales for new and used goods, with automotive, real estate and employment businesses. They also have web businesses specialising in accommodation and online dating. On top of that, we sell advertising across our portfolio of websites.

Applied Systems

Venture Round in 2018
Applied Systems is an innovative insurance software provider and a pioneer in agency management systems and data exchange between agencies, brokers, carriers, and their clients. It provides various services and products for its clients, including Epic, an agency and brokerage management system for insurance agencies to optimize business for growth and to build client relationships; TAM, an agency management software that allows agencies to manage day-to-day business operations; DORIS, an online agency management system that provides access to fundamental features, functions, and workflows needed to run an agency, including automated interface with various insurance carriers; and Vision, which enables agencies to manage complex business structures and complicated commercial lines of coverage, specialty lines of business, or non-traditional niche markets. Applied Systems also offers some additional services that include Performance Management, which accesses, aggregates, and analyzes multiple sources of raw data; and Mobile Producer, a mobile insurance application for producers that brings client, policy, and sales information to iPad or Android tablets. It serves insurance professionals, agencies, brokerages, and carriers in North America and internationally through its professional services, such as insurance consulting, data, education and training, and support services. Applied Systems was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in University Park, I.L. with additional offices in Ontario, Canada and East Sussex, United Kingdom.

SimpliSafe

Acquisition in 2018
SimpliSafe Home Security is a disruptive tech company that designs, engineers, and sells wireless security alarm systems, cameras, and services for houses, apartments, and other commercial properties. The systems are an inexpensive, easy-to-install alternative to traditional home security options. Simplisafe has 24/7 professional monitoring with no long-term contract and daily customer service support. It sells its products online. The company’s wireless encrypted alarm system features a cellular connection, SMS text and email alerts, smash-proof protection, power outage protection, smoke and fire detection, and wireless sensors. In 2018, SimpliSafe entirely redesigned its system to be half the size with double the range and five times faster. Products include entry, motion, glass break, and water sensors along with a base station, camera, panic button, and smoke detector. The company will also be introducing a video doorbell, a door lock with digital capabilities, and a plan to integrate its service with Amazon’s Echo voice control device. SimpliSafe was the winner of CNET’s Editors’ Choice Award and has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau. SimpliSafe Home Security was incorporated in 2006 by Chad and Eleanor Laurans and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Financial Engines

Acquisition in 2018
Financial Engines, Inc. provides investment advisory services. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. Financial Engines Inc. is a subsidiary of Edelman Financial Engines, LLC.

Nets

Acquisition in 2017
Nets A/S is a prominent provider of digital payment services and technology solutions in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and the Baltic countries. The company connects merchants, enterprises, financial institutions, and consumers, facilitating the making and receiving of payments while offering various value-added services. It operates through three main segments: Merchant Services, Financial & Network Services, and Corporate Services. Merchant Services offers payment acceptance solutions for in-store, online, and mobile transactions, supporting a range of payment methods, including major credit card networks and local brands. The Financial & Network Services segment provides outsourced processing for payment card issuers, particularly banks, along with additional services like fraud management and mobile wallet technology. Meanwhile, Corporate Services delivers a payment platform for recurring transactions and real-time clearing solutions, including instant payment services and digital identification. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Ballerup, Denmark, Nets A/S is a subsidiary of Nets Holdco 5 AS, committed to ensuring secure and user-friendly payment experiences.

Snap One

Acquisition in 2017
Snap One is a provider of smart-living products, services, and software to professional integrators. It combines an end-to-end product ecosystem and technology-enabled workflow solutions, allowing integrators to focus on their trade while leveraging the tools and infrastructure to build thriving and profitable businesses.

Allfunds

Acquisition in 2017
Allfunds Bank S.A. provide all the tools needed to help investors gain the freedom to choose among the best fund managers in the world. Allfunds seek to create value from greater efficiency within the financial sector through the constant technological evolution of our platform.

Genesys

Private Equity Round in 2016
Every year, Genesys orchestrates more than 70 billion remarkable customer experiences for organizations in more than 100 countries. Through the power of our cloud, digital and AI technologies, organizations can realize Experience as a Service SM our vision for empathetic customer experiences at scale. With Genesys, organizations have the power to deliver proactive, predictive, and hyper personalized experiences to deepen their customer connection across every marketing, sales, and service moment on any channel, while also improving employee productivity and engagement. By transforming back-office technology to a modern revenue velocity engine Genesys enables true intimacy at scale to foster customer trust and loyalty.

MultiPlan

Acquisition in 2016
MultiPlan, Inc. operates regional preferred provider organization (PPO) networks that provide various healthcare cost management solutions for commercial, government, property, and casualty markets in Wisconsin, the Southwest United States, and Hawaii.The company has a strategic partnership with DocASAP.

TeamSystem

Acquisition in 2015
TeamSystem develops and distributes management software solutions for professionals, businesses, legal practices, and artisans. It provides training and professional updates for accountants, labor consultants, tax advisers, corporate administration managers, and lawyers; and develops management software and access control systems for the sport, health, and leisure sectors.

Edelman Financial Services

Acquisition in 2015
Edelman Financial Services provides financial planning and investment management services to more than 28,000 individuals and families and manages more than $15 billion in assets

Verisure Securitas Direct

Acquisition in 2015
Verisure Securitas Direct system is installed somewhere in the world every 30 seconds.

Abra Auto Body & Glass

Acquisition in 2014
At ABRA, we are committed to achieving our goal of being number one in customer service satisfaction. We offer convenient locations, flexible hours, direct insurance billing, 24/7 towing service, 24 hour customer service and temporary transportation services. For all auto repair, detailing, paintless dent removal, auto glass service needs contact your local ABRA collision repair center today.

Renaissance Learning

Acquisition in 2014
Renaissance Learning provides computer-based assessment technology and school improvement programs for pre-kindergarten through senior high schools and districts in the United States and internationally alongside its subsidiaries. Its educational software products cover various subject areas such as reading, early literacy, mathematics, writing, vocabulary, and language acquisition.

Scout24

Acquisition in 2013
Scout24 is a operator of digital marketplaces for real estate and automobiles in Germany and other selected European countries. They operate the two well-known brands ImmobilienScout24 and AutoScout24.

CARPROOF

Funding Round in 2013
CARPROOF is a Canadian vehicle history reporting service that provides Canadian data to both consumers and dealers.

HUB International

Acquisition in 2013
HUB International is a full-service insurance broker. It offers property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment, and risk management products and services.

Wood Mackenzie

Acquisition in 2012
Wood Mackenzie is a research and consultancy business for the energy, chemicals, metals, and mining industries. The company provides objective analysis and advice on assets, companies, and markets, giving clients the insight they need to make better strategic decisions. It was founded in 1973 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom.

Internet Brands

Acquisition in 2010
Internet Brands has grown to become a fully integrated online media and client services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Automotive, Health, Legal and Home / Travel. The company’s award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 100 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands’ powerful, propriety operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company’s continued growth.

Web Reservations International

Acquisition in 2009
Web Reservations International (WRI) provides online confirmed reservations to over 50,000 accommodation providers, directly and through more than 2500 global affiliate partners. Customers can choose from 5 star hotels to hostels around the world through our major online brands such as hostelworld.com, worldres.com, hostels.com, trav.com and the newly launched boo.com. WRI affiliate partners include Ryanair.com, AirAsia.com, Kayak.com, Letsgo.com and Lonelyplanet.com. WRI hotel partners include Intercontinental Group, Accor, Marriot, Hilton and Best Western, as well as thousands of individual hotels. Hostels include both Hostelling International (YHA) and independent backpacker hostels and global chains such as St. Christophers Inns and BASE Backpackers. Other accommodation partners include bed & breakfasts, apartments and camping villages. Web Reservations International was founded in 1999, is privately held and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in Sydney, Australia, San Mateo, California and Shanghai, China.

Ellucian

Acquisition in 2009
Ellucian provide the higher education software, services, and analytics you need to manage your day-to-day campus business faster, easier, and more effectively. It’s been our total focus for more than 40 years. That passion speaks for itself: today Ellucian serve 2,400 institutions in 40 countries across the globe.

SSP

Acquisition in 2008
SSP is a provider of general insurance technology solutions, operating in more than 50 countries across the UK, continental Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and USA. It serves over 1,000 insurance brokers as well as over 160 insurers, including 20 of the world’s largest insurers. With more than 30 years’ experience and industry expertise, SSP develops and implements technology solutions and back-office systems that enable their customers to reduce the cost of their operations, increase distribution and create a better customer experience – improving profitability and effectiveness. Having end-to-end visibility from consumers through to insurers, SSP is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges their customers face and provide significant industry insight across the entire value chain. SSP’s broking technology processes transactions worth over £5 billion gross written premiums and over 1.1 billion internet insurance quotes annually. SSP works with you to develop the system and solution that you want. By helping you define your requirements, SSP map the journey and build the solution for you.

Getty Images

Acquisition in 2008
Getty Images is a digital media company. They specialize in capturing, creating, and preserving content to elevate visual communications. They help companies tell stories that will move their brand, their customers, their readers, and viewers, and help them create lasting connections.

Adchemy

Series C in 2008
Adchemy helps online brands scale ecommerce revenue acquisition with easy-to-use software that radically simplifies digital marketing campaigns and delivers unbelievably useful ads. Currently 8 out of the top 50 retailers on the IR500 us Adchemy software. For more information, please visit www.adchemy.com. The Adchemy platform automates and enforces best practices for keyword and PLA search campaigns, which leads to huge growth. On average, Adchemy software clients experience an improvement of 400+ percent more impressions, 150+ percent more clicks, at least 100 percent more revenue and 40+ percent higher margins, all while maintaining or exceeding target return on ad spend. Unlike other solutions designed for power users, Adchemy software is insanely easy to use. At the core of Adchemy’s software is the Adchemy IntentGraph that allows marketers and merchandisers to organize campaigns around their business language: products, not keywords.

Catalina

Acquisition in 2007
Catalina’s personalized digital media drives loyalty and measurable sales outcomes for the world’s leading CPG retailers and brands. Catalina personalizes the consumer’s path to purchase through mobile, online and in-store networks powered by the largest shopper history database in the world. Catalina is based in St. Petersburg, FL, with operations in the United States, Europe and Japan. To learn more, please visit www.Catalina.com or follow us on Twitter @Catalina. Since 1983, Catalina has been committed to helping manufacturing and retail brands deliver unprecedented performance and healthier outcomes. Our proprietary in- and out-of-store marketing platforms enable the delivery of the right message to the right audience in the right environment so clients can successfully build their brands for less. Only Catalina sees the evolving purchase histories of more than 75 percent of U.S. shoppers and 130 million health consumers. We use this precise transaction-level insight to help clients develop customized, measurable campaigns to acquire, maximize, and retain their most valuable consumers, or to incite healthier patient behavior. Catalina reaches consumers through multiple delivery channels. Our in-store network consists of 50,000 food, drug, and mass merchant locations worldwide. In the United States, Catalina is installed in more than 26,000 locations. In addition, Catalina's CouponNetwork.com is one of the world's largest consumer couponing sites.

UKG

Acquisition in 2007
UKG™delivers HCM, payroll, HR service delivery, and workforce management solutions.

Goodman Global Group

Acquisition in 2007
Goodman Global Group through its subsidiaries, engages in engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing a line of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning or HVAC equipment and related products for residential and light commercial use in the United States. The company markets its products under the Goodman, Amana, and Quietflex brand names. It distributes its products through the company-operated distribution centers and independent distributors. The company, formerly known as Chill Holdings, Inc., was founded in 1975 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Artisan Partners

Venture Round in 2006
Artisan Partners is a global investment management firm that provides a broad range of high value-added investment strategies in growing asset classes to sophisticated clients around the world.

DoubleClick

Acquisition in 2005
DoubleClick is a provider of digital marketing technology and services. Companies come to DoubleClick for expertise in ad serving, media, video, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium.

Universal Underwriters Group

Acquisition in 2005
Universal Underwriters Group is a provider of property and casualty insurance to U.S. franchised automotive dealerships.

Nexant

Series A in 2000
Nexant is a provider of intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions–pioneering, developing, and advancing electric power grid and alternative energy technologies and services. Their exclusive focus on energy, combined with their well-respected and experienced professionals, proven technology, and proprietary industry information, has earned them distinctive brand recognition and a reputation as a top energy solutions company.

iWeb Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
iWeb is a leading Canadian provider of advanced Internet Hosting Services and IT Infrastructures through shared hosting, unmanaged and managed dedicated servers and colocation. The company operations three datacenters and delivers Internet Hosting Services in English, French and Spanish to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world, serving customers from more than 135 countries worldwide.

Advanstar Communications

Venture Round in 1996
Advanstar is an event and marketing services business that serves business professionals and consumers in the Fashion, Licensing, Life Sciences and Powersports industries with its portfolio of 54 trade shows, 100 conferences, 30 publications, and almost 200 electronic products and Web sites, as well as educational and direct marketing products and services. Market leading brands and a commitment to delivering innovative, quality products and services enables Advanstar to “Connect Our Customers With Theirs.” Advanstar has approximately 600 employees and currently operates from multiple offices in North America and Europe.
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