Lear Corporation

The Lear Corporation is a Fortune 500 company with world-class products designed, engineered and manufactured by a diverse team of talented employees. As a leading supplier of automotive seating and electrical, Lear serves its customers with global capabilities while maintaining individual commitment. With headquarters in Southfield, Michigan, Lear maintains 221 locations in 36 countries around the globe and employs approximately 122,000 employees. Lear is traded under the symbol [LEA] on the New York Stock Exchange.

17 past transactions

Cellink

Series D in 2022
CelLink is an early-stage hardware startup that is developing a flexible conductive backplane for power electronics, including batteries, light-emitting diodes, wire harnessing, solar cells, and other devices requiring power transmission.

Cellink

Venture Round in 2021
CelLink is an early-stage hardware startup that is developing a flexible conductive backplane for power electronics, including batteries, light-emitting diodes, wire harnessing, solar cells, and other devices requiring power transmission.

M & N Plastics

Acquisition in 2021
M & N Plastics is a leading supplier of custom plastic injection molded products.

Xevo

Acquisition in 2019
Xevo, a part of Lear Corporation, is a Seattle-based global leader in connected-car software and a development partner to some of the world’s largest automakers. The company’s award-winning automotive software solutions make it possible for automobile manufacturers to deliver groundbreaking in-vehicle experiences while allowing automotive OEMs, merchant partners, and service providers to capitalize on new monetization opportunities. For more information, visit xevo.com.

EXO Technologies

Acquisition in 2017
EXO Technologies is taking an innovative approach by developing software based GPS solutions that enhance modern day receivers. By correcting satellite orbit error and clock error at a level never seen before, they have eliminated the inherent error sources within navigation messages. Additionally, EXO algorithms reduce complementary errors and construct a full positioning solution.

Silk Therapeutics

Series A in 2017
Silk Therapeutics develops, manufactures, and sells skincare products based on silk materials. It offers PureProC, a film formulation that surrounds, protects, stabilizes, and delivers the benefits of vitamin C for an extended duration with anti-aging and skin health benefits. The company sells its products through its online store. Silk Therapeutics skincare line features clean, highly effective anti-aging skincare and skin health products that are healthy enough to use on any skin type, including highly sensitive skin. The company's proprietary liquid silk technology platform was developed by company co-founders Greg Altman, Ph.D., and Rebecca Horan, Ph.D., foremost experts in the use of silk for health and wellness solutions—including effective stabilization and delivery of real silk molecules to the skin. Silk Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Medford, Massachusetts.

Grupo Antolin

Acquisition in 2017
Grupo Antolin offers automobile interior products. Their long industrial tradition and mastery of a broad technologies portfolio have positioned us as a key reference in the automotive sector. They dominate the complete component cycle from component conception and design, through development and validation to parts industrialization and sequenced delivery.

Tempronics

Series C in 2016
Tempronics is developing devices to revolutionize the way we cool things and generate electricity. Thermoelectric devices have the potential to replace rotating machines used today for cooling and power generation, including compressors, gas turbines, steam turbines and electrical generators. These machines are noisy, heavy, and wear out from moving parts. Thermoelectric devices are solid state chips that are lighter, silent, potentially more efficient, and do not require environmentally damaging fluids like Freon.

Silk Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Silk Therapeutics develops, manufactures, and sells skincare products based on silk materials. It offers PureProC, a film formulation that surrounds, protects, stabilizes, and delivers the benefits of vitamin C for an extended duration with anti-aging and skin health benefits. The company sells its products through its online store. Silk Therapeutics skincare line features clean, highly effective anti-aging skincare and skin health products that are healthy enough to use on any skin type, including highly sensitive skin. The company's proprietary liquid silk technology platform was developed by company co-founders Greg Altman, Ph.D., and Rebecca Horan, Ph.D., foremost experts in the use of silk for health and wellness solutions—including effective stabilization and delivery of real silk molecules to the skin. Silk Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Medford, Massachusetts.

Arada Systems

Acquisition in 2015
Arada Systems develops, licenses and provides solutions for the next generation of uses of Wi-Fi including Automotive.

Eagle Ottawa

Acquisition in 2015
Eagle Ottawa is the world's largest supplier of premium automotive leather with a rich 150-year history and stable private ownership for nearly 50 years. The company has an experienced management team, modern facilities, a low-cost footprint, diversified customers and a reputation for superior quality, product innovation and craftsmanship. Eagle Ottawa will complement Lear's leading position in luxury and performance automotive seating.

Guilford Mills

Acquisition in 2012
Guilford’s 57-year history has included many things. It has been marked by growth and success, as well as restructuring. They’re most proud that they handled both the successful and the hard times exactly the same when it came to their principles. Guilford Mills is here to serve you their customers. They believe in teamwork and their people who, through the execution of their jobs everyday, allow us to earn your business. They’re a manufacturing company that believes in manufacturing excellence, new ideas and value chain partnerships. They will change anyway they must in order to bring value to each of their customers and afford their associates opportunities for good jobs and career advancement. The Guilford team is proud of what they have accomplished and is excited about the future. Guilford will continue to change in order to further separate us from their competition.

NanoSteel

Venture Round in 2011
NanoSteel is an advanced materials company specializing in the design and commercialization of patented steels with exceptional mechanical properties derived from their nano-scale microstructure. The Company's primary focus is proprietary alloys for use as sheet steel in automotive light-weighting applications. It has developed multiple generations of ferrous materials innovations including metallic coatings, additive manufacturing powders, and sheet steel protected by over 300 patents filed and granted worldwide. NanoSteel’s nanostructured steel designs are providing next-generation performance across a wide range of global industrial markets. The company alloys are proven in oil & gas, mining, cement, concrete, and power industries. The recent advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheet material is poised to redefine how steel is used in the automotive industry.
China New Trend Group Co., Ltd is produces fabric for seat covers, headliners, door trim panels and carpets.

Grote & Hartmann

Acquisition in 2004
Grote & Hartmann manufactures terminals and connectors, junction boxes and machinery to produce wire harnesses, primarily for the automotive industry. The acquisition will support Lear's strategy to grow its electronics and electrical distribution systems business and further diversify its sales. Grote & Hartmann's primary customers are Volkswagen, BMW, Ford, Opel, DaimlerChrysler, Renault, MAN and PSA Group.

United Technologies Automotive

Acquisition in 1999
United Technologies Automotive is a company that use smart, sustainable products and services that meet the demands of an evolving world.

Dunlop Cox Limited

Acquisition in 1997
Dunlop Cox Limited is a leader in the design and manufacture of manual and electrically-powered automotive seating mechanisms.
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