Koch

Koch, Inc., based in Wichita, Kansas, is an American multinational corporation with a diverse portfolio of subsidiaries engaged in manufacturing, trading, and investments across various industries. Its operations span the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, and polymers, as well as the production of fiber, intermediates, and fertilizers. Koch also owns notable companies such as Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, and Koch Pipeline. Additionally, it is involved in sectors such as chemical technology equipment, pulp and paper, ranching, and commodities trading. With a workforce of over 100,000 employees in more than 50 countries, the company focuses on creating essential products and services while continually seeking innovative solutions to enhance quality of life.

Tony Streich

Managing Director

Joe Scribbins

Managing Director

31 past transactions

Jostens

Private Equity Round in 2024
Jostens, Inc. is a company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that specializes in providing a range of products and services for high schools and universities. Founded in 1897, Jostens offers items such as jewelry, yearbooks, memory books, and various scholastic products, catering to both educational institutions and athletic programs. The company focuses on helping students commemorate their achievements through its diverse offerings, including rings for schools and sports. Jostens serves the K-12 educational, college, and professional sports segments, ensuring that students and their families can celebrate milestones in academics and athletics.

iconectiv

Acquisition in 2024
iconectiv specializes in technology solutions that enhance network and operations management, digital identity management, and fraud prevention. The company provides cloud-based information services and numbering solutions designed to facilitate the secure interconnection of networks, devices, and applications. By offering a range of services, including network management, registry solutions, and fraud prevention tools, iconectiv addresses communication challenges and supports complex operational needs. Its platform enables businesses to achieve seamless interoperability, ensuring efficient and secure operations across various systems.

EliseAI

Series D in 2024
EliseAI is an artificial intelligence company specializing in a conversational platform designed for business automation, particularly within the real estate sector. Their virtual leasing assistant assists real estate management companies by managing inquiries, scheduling property viewings, and ensuring consistent follow-up with prospects to prevent lost leads. This platform enables apartment managers to enhance customer service, optimize revenue, and lower property management costs. By leveraging machine learning, EliseAI's solution streamlines operations for real estate professionals of all sizes, fostering improved engagement with prospective tenants and facilitating efficient management of leasing processes.

HqO

Series D in 2023
HqO, Inc. operates a tenant engagement platform specifically designed for the commercial real estate sector, facilitating connections between landlords, tenants, and building amenities. The platform includes a mobile application that allows tenants to interact with their environment, manage access, and access various services, such as ordering food and tracking transportation. Additionally, HqO provides analytics and smart building solutions to help landlords better understand and engage with their tenants. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company also has offices in London and Paris. Formerly known as VentureApp Inc., HqO aims to enhance workplace experiences by combining digital, physical, and personal services into one cohesive platform for property owners, asset managers, and tenants alike.

EliseAI

Series C in 2023
EliseAI is an artificial intelligence company specializing in a conversational platform designed for business automation, particularly within the real estate sector. Their virtual leasing assistant assists real estate management companies by managing inquiries, scheduling property viewings, and ensuring consistent follow-up with prospects to prevent lost leads. This platform enables apartment managers to enhance customer service, optimize revenue, and lower property management costs. By leveraging machine learning, EliseAI's solution streamlines operations for real estate professionals of all sizes, fostering improved engagement with prospective tenants and facilitating efficient management of leasing processes.

PLOT

Seed Round in 2023
PLOT combines Logistic Mapping, Delivery Coordination, and Lead Time Management to take away the arduous and low-level tasks that Construction teams hate.

Compass Minerals

Post in 2022
Compass Minerals International, Inc. is a producer and seller of salt and specialty plant nutrition and chemical products, primarily operating in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and the United Kingdom. The company organizes its operations into three segments: Salt, Plant Nutrition North America, and Plant Nutrition South America. The Salt segment provides various forms of sodium chloride and magnesium chloride, including products for deicing, chemical production, and water treatment. The Plant Nutrition North America segment offers sulfate of potash fertilizers and nutrient solutions tailored for agricultural and turf markets. Meanwhile, the Plant Nutrition South America segment supplies specialty nutrients, water treatment chemicals, and industrial process chemicals. Established in 1993 and headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, Compass Minerals emphasizes responsible resource stewardship and sustainability in its business practices, aiming to balance environmental health with customer and shareholder value.

SoundHound

Post in 2022
SoundHound Inc. specializes in voice-enabled artificial intelligence and conversational intelligence technology solutions. The company offers several products, including Hound, a voice-enabled search engine for information, entertainment, and communication, and SoundHound, a music search and discovery service that identifies songs and provides access to music content. Additionally, SoundHound provides Houndify, a platform that facilitates understanding of both text and voice inputs, offering advanced speech recognition and natural language understanding capabilities. This technology supports context-aware and complex queries, enhancing user interactions. Founded in 2005 and originally known as Melodis Corporation, SoundHound Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in major cities across the United States, Canada, and Japan. The company is committed to helping brands create customized conversational experiences, improving customer engagement through natural voice interactions across various industries.

Tradeshift

Venture Round in 2021
Tradeshift Inc. is a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers to streamline procurement and payment processes. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tradeshift offers a suite of services including Tradeshift Buy, an eProcurement tool; Tradeshift Pay, which automates accounts payable and manages business documents; and Tradeshift Risk, which analyzes risk data. The platform also features Tradeshift Engage for enhancing supplier collaboration, Tradeshift Apps to expand functionalities, and Tradeshift Go for visibility into employee spending. Additionally, Tradeshift Frontiers serves as an innovation lab focused on leveraging emerging technologies to transform business networks and supply chains. With offices across various global locations, Tradeshift aims to simplify supply chain payments, reduce manual processes, and provide significant benefits to businesses of all sizes.

ESS

Post in 2021
ESS is a long-duration energy storage company that specializes in iron flow battery technology, providing solutions for commercial, industrial, utility, microgrid, and off-grid applications. Established in 2011, ESS aims to support a future powered by clean and reliable energy. The company utilizes an innovative energy management system that features a safe and non-toxic iron-electrolyte combined with a patented flow cell design. This approach allows ESS to deliver high-performance energy storage at a lower cost, making its technology suitable for a wide range of applications from retail energy management to utility-scale renewable energy integration. With a team experienced in distributed power generation and energy storage technologies, ESS is well-positioned to contribute to the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions.

Nerdy

Post in 2021
Nerdy is a leading curated direct-to-consumer platform for live online learning. Nerdy’s mission is to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI, to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, and adaptive self-study. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes.

Snyk

Series F in 2021
Snyk Ltd. is a software as a service company that provides a platform for identifying, fixing, and monitoring vulnerabilities in applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Boston, and Ontario, Snyk offers a range of solutions tailored for developers and security teams. Its key products include Snyk Code, a developer-first static application security testing tool, and container vulnerability management for securing Docker images. The platform also supports application security management, licensing compliance, and infrastructure as code security, ensuring that all components of modern applications are secure. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform integrates seamlessly into developers' workflows, promoting collaboration between development and security teams. The company serves over 1,200 customers globally, including notable organizations like Google and Salesforce, and has formed a strategic partnership with Rapid7. Snyk is recognized for its contributions to enhancing application security in an increasingly digital landscape.

Halo Investing

Series C in 2021
Halo Investing is a financial technology startup that provides an independent multi-issuer platform focused on an investment product known as Structured Notes. Structured Notes are a pre-defined outcome investment product offering downside protection, previously only available to the ultra-high net worth. Halo is empowering and democratizing access to the product by building technology to analyze, purchase, and manage the full lifecycle of the product while building efficiencies for issuing banks.

Astranis

Series C in 2021
Astranis is a satellite technology developer focused on providing high-speed internet access to underserved regions. The company aims to address the digital divide by launching satellites that can transmit data to specific terrestrial locations, facilitating internet connectivity for the estimated 4 billion people worldwide who currently lack access. By offering reliable internet services at significantly lower costs than traditional methods, Astranis enables governments and businesses to connect communities and expand internet access globally.

Infor

Acquisition in 2020
Infor, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software and services, specializing in cloud-based applications across various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, public sector, and retail. The company offers a range of solutions, including CloudSuite industry suites that integrate applications to manage business processes, enterprise resource planning, and enterprise asset management tools to monitor and maintain company assets. Infor's product portfolio also includes financial management solutions for budgeting and reporting, human capital management for workforce administration, and customer relationship management for marketing efforts. Additionally, the company provides supply chain management applications to oversee production and logistics, alongside analytics tools for real-time operational insights. Infor supports its offerings with technical assistance, including software upgrades and consulting services, catering to both large enterprises and small-to-midsize companies. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, Infor was previously known as GGC Software Holdings, Inc. before adopting its current name in 2012.

Desktop Metal

Series E in 2019
Desktop Metal, Inc. specializes in additive manufacturing solutions, providing innovative 3D printing technologies tailored for engineers, designers, and manufacturers across various industries. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of products, including the Production System for industrial manufacturing, the Shop System for metal additive manufacturing in machine and job shops, the Studio System for office-based metal 3D printing, and the Fiber desktop 3D printer. Its technologies cater to sectors such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, consumer products, and heavy industry, enabling on-demand digital mass production that emphasizes speed, cost-efficiency, and high-quality parts. Desktop Metal operates in markets across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, with the majority of its revenue generated from the Americas.

Infor

Private Equity Round in 2019
Infor, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software and services, specializing in cloud-based applications across various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, public sector, and retail. The company offers a range of solutions, including CloudSuite industry suites that integrate applications to manage business processes, enterprise resource planning, and enterprise asset management tools to monitor and maintain company assets. Infor's product portfolio also includes financial management solutions for budgeting and reporting, human capital management for workforce administration, and customer relationship management for marketing efforts. Additionally, the company provides supply chain management applications to oversee production and logistics, alongside analytics tools for real-time operational insights. Infor supports its offerings with technical assistance, including software upgrades and consulting services, catering to both large enterprises and small-to-midsize companies. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, Infor was previously known as GGC Software Holdings, Inc. before adopting its current name in 2012.

Genesis Robotics

Corporate Round in 2018
Genesis Robotics is a spin-out from Genesis Advanced Technology – a research and development company focused on developing new solutions to some of the significant challenges of our time. The Genesis team has more than 30 patents spanning a variety of applications.

Guardian Industries

Acquisition in 2016
At Guardian, they share one Vision – to create value for their customers and society, and to constantly innovate to improve the value they create. Guardian and its family of companies employ 17,000 people that live and work in over 25 countries across five continents, playing diverse roles in multiple industries. And they have one culture whose foundation rests upon their Guiding Principles.

Infor

Private Equity Round in 2016
Infor, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software and services, specializing in cloud-based applications across various industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, public sector, and retail. The company offers a range of solutions, including CloudSuite industry suites that integrate applications to manage business processes, enterprise resource planning, and enterprise asset management tools to monitor and maintain company assets. Infor's product portfolio also includes financial management solutions for budgeting and reporting, human capital management for workforce administration, and customer relationship management for marketing efforts. Additionally, the company provides supply chain management applications to oversee production and logistics, alongside analytics tools for real-time operational insights. Infor supports its offerings with technical assistance, including software upgrades and consulting services, catering to both large enterprises and small-to-midsize companies. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, Infor was previously known as GGC Software Holdings, Inc. before adopting its current name in 2012.

EFT Energy & Analytics

Acquisition in 2016
EFT Energy & Analytics are a leading Software as a Service and solutions provider in the fields of industrial predictive analytics, process optimization, and energy management. Our groundbreaking analytics platform and intuitive visual interface allow engineers to optimize industrial processes, detect root causes of unforeseen events, and identify sources of energy savings. With a drag-and-drop graphical user interface built on top of a powerful analytics engine, our software helps engineers and citizen data scientists rapidly make new insights into their systems and processes, without requiring advanced training in programming or statistics. Our cloud-based software platform imports, aggregates, and validates data from various sources, including Microsoft tools; relational databases; and real-time data from industrial machinery, sensors, control systems, and power-consumption monitors. Users create data models using a visual interface, and results can be monitored in realtime through a visual dashboard or returned to a facility’s process control system via interfaces. Through machine learning each model becomes more intelligent over time. EFT, with offices in New York City, NY, Dublin, Ireland, and Wichita, KS, provides predictive analytics, process optimization, and energy management solutions for over 100 large clients in North America and Europe. EFT was founded by CTO Craig Ennis in Dublin, Ireland, in 1998 and commenced US operations in 2009.

Georgia-Pacific

Acquisition in 2005
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an industrial conglomerate based in Atlanta, Georgia, that specializes in manufacturing and marketing a wide range of products, including tissue, paper, pulp, packaging, building materials, and related chemicals. Founded in 1927, the company offers various hygiene products such as towels, tissues, and soaps, as well as dispensing systems for markets like healthcare, education, and foodservice. In the building materials sector, Georgia-Pacific produces wood panels, plywood, gypsum, and other construction products for commercial and residential applications. The company also supplies fluff pulp for diapers and personal care items, as well as chemicals for diverse industries including automotive, construction, and packaging. Additionally, it manufactures nonwoven materials for hygiene products and produces a variety of paper products, including containerboard and craft paper. With nearly 35,000 employees, Georgia-Pacific operates as a subsidiary of Koch Industries and serves customers globally.

INVISTA

Acquisition in 2003
aily life through its innovations in the nylon, spandex, polyester and specialty materials industries.
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