Spire Capital is a private equity investment firm based in New York, founded in 2000. The firm specializes in investing in small to middle-market companies primarily within the business services, information services, media, education, and communications sectors. Spire Capital focuses on leading buyout investments and leverages its extensive industry experience and network to support the growth and success of its portfolio companies. The firm seeks opportunities in technology-enabled business services and aims to invest in companies with a minimum revenue of $10 million and EBITDA of $5 million. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Spire Capital is committed to actively managing its investments to maximize value.
Founded in 2005, The Inception Company is a technology-driven production company that builds and supports virtual engagement products and services to help clients reach and connect with their stakeholders more fully. The Company delivers premium virtual meeting platforms through its product Pando, web conferencing platforms, and services through its product Grove, and also offers other premium broadcasts, video, and meeting services solutions. The Company serves enterprise clients and is headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey.
Advocate the Premier TBM Services Company provides technology business management ("TBM") and technology expense management ("TEM") services to enterprise organizations looking to optimize their technology strategy and infrastructure.
PROtect was formed by the merger of ERI Solutions & DBI Inc, and provides non-destructive testing, safety, industrial hygiene, environmental, and insurance services. The company’s services, the majority of which are federally mandated, allowing its more than 200 customers to mitigate business risks and maintain compliance with regulations. Its customers are active in the biofuels, agribusiness, manufacturing, milling, petrochemical, construction, and distribution sectors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered near Wichita in Colwich, Kansas.
O2B Kids is a Everything. It's a smile. It's a laugh. It's family togetherness. It's a child's discovery. It's a place for kids to sing,dance, run, and play. It's ever-changing and it's always FUN.
Classic estate agents charge very high fees to sellers for very little support and value addition and suffer from a very poor reputation. eMoov is an industry first solution, which is genuinely helping the seller sell better with the help of technology tools and great people. This creates customer empowerment, transparency and reduced cost of servicing allowing a fee saving to be passed to the customer. Emoov charges nominal fixed fees, a fraction compared to percentage based transactions charged by old fashioned estate agents. eMoov was founded by Russell Quirk, who is an impressive entrepreneur and previously ran a five branch classic estate agent business. He is a rarity in that he is a well versed property professional incumbent disrupting an industry that is sorely in need of it. He has built an industry leading team, a fantastic technology platform and is obsessed with customer service. His PR skills are frankly awesome.
Vector Media offers diverse Out-of-Home advertising opportunities, specializing in large format visual communications. They focus on providing our clients with the tools to create maximum impact and brand experiences. Their ever-growing media arsenal includes double decker transit spectaculars, airport shuttles, custom-route coach-style vehicles, solar kiosks and other street furniture, taxi media, digital advertising, bulletins, wallscapes and building wrap opportunities, printed publications, experiential marketing and more.
Lighthouse is a leading full-service eDiscovery provider to Fortune 100 companies and Am Law 100 law firms nationally. For over 19 years, they have been providing unparalleled solutions that improve eDiscovery workflows and dramatically reduce their clients’ overall costs of discovery. Collaboration, innovation, scale, and overall cost reductions – only at Lighthouse eDiscovery.
Trax is the global leader in Transportation Spend Management. A combination of industry‐leading cloud‐based technology solutions and the industry's most global services elevate traditional freight audit to enterprise-wide value creation and customer satisfaction for our clients. Our clients represent the world's most complex supply chains, and they choose Trax to empower better management and control of their global transportation costs, improve data quality, and advise on logistics management optimization strategies. With a global footprint spanning North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver greater visibility, savings, and control of transportation network performance.
Telekenex is a business-grade IP service provider with a robust private international IP network and innovative solutions, including managed ethernet, SIP trunking, private MPLS and Internet, managed data center, and a full suite of IP Telephony solutions. Telekenex was founded in 1994 and is based in San Francisco, California.
NetFortris provides secure cloud-based UCaaS, managed network solutions, hosted productivity applications, security and specialized applications for enterprises of all sizes. The NetFortris Cloud Solutions Platform, a proprietary cloud services management and analytics platform, provides the foundation for all NetFortris services, and delivers security, analytics, and integrated management for simple, scalable and highly secure cloud communications operations.
Surgent Professional Education offers a comprehensive platform for accounting and finance professionals, covering the entire spectrum from licensing to continuing education. The organization specializes in certification exam preparations for various accounting credentials, including its well-regarded exam review resources. Through its dedicated services, Surgent aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of professionals in the field, ensuring they meet the necessary qualifications and stay updated with industry standards.
PAN was founded in 2000 by two clinical psychologists that saw a need to compile the best online assessments onto one platform. Today, PAN is the leading provider of talent measurement solutions to help organizations of all sizes hire, develop, and retain the right talent. PAN’s suite of industry-leading assessment tools, innovative technology, and support services offers clients a single source for streamlined people measurement. More information is available at www.panpowered.com.
Social Augmented Reality Mobile Location-based Service "Sekai Camera" (World Camera) Their client-side software and web service enable camera-equipped mobile devices (such as iPhones, Android "Google Phones", and other smart-phones) to access informational and entertainment services by creating a "Clickable World" via the use of Augmented Reality (AR) hyper-tags. These user-clickable tags, which they call "AirTags", are location-based and mapped in the real world. These AirTags can be seen and accessed through the camera view of mobile devices with Sekai Camera software. Sekai Camera is realized though a combination of technologies, including client-side software deployed on iPhone, Android and other OS platforms, and also highly scalable web computing systems. In addition, Sekai Camera integrates with services provided by mobile carriers, existing data/service providers, and location technology companies, which combined, enable this dynamic location-based information retrieval service.
Rainbow Child Care Center provides early education services to more than 10,500 students, with 121 schools and before/after school programs in 12 states in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast U.S.
Tarpon Towers, founded in 2008 as Florida Tower Partners, LLC, operates in the wireless communications sector across the United States. The company focuses on developing, acquiring, and managing wireless communication sites that meet the growing demand from service providers catering to consumers, businesses, and government entities. Utilizing the expertise of its management team, Tarpon Towers engages in site acquisition and permitting processes, as well as forming strategic partnerships, including joint ventures for capital funding. The company actively seeks to expand its portfolio by acquiring select wireless communication tower assets nationwide.
Velocity Technology Solutions is a leader in enterprise and business application services, fully- managed and protected within a virtual private, public or hybrid cloud. It is dedicated to lowering operational costs, providing industry-leading service levels and improving software performance while reducing the burden on IT staff and enabling deployment flexibility. Velocity provides virtual cloud solutions for enterprise applications with high levels of performance. Expertise managing software 24/7, combined with proprietary technology that enhances availability, security, and control, make Velocity the trusted partner for rapidly and securely deploying application investments into a secure and resilient virtual cloud. Velocity is headquartered in Charlotte with facilities in Minneapolis, Nashville, Denver, Tampa, India, Singapore, London (Canada), and Glasgow. Velocity is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Sumeru, a global leader in private equity investments in growth-oriented technology and technology-enabled companies.
Certiport® prepares individuals with current and relevant digital skills and credentials for the competitive global workforce. These solutions are delivered by more than 12,000 Certiport Centers worldwide and include the official Microsoft Office certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the CompTIA Strata™ IT Fundamentals, the Autodesk® Certified User certification program, the Intuit® QuickBooks Certified User certification program and the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³® ).
Professional Bull Riders is an operator of a bull riding competition company. The company features the Top 35 bull riders in the world and the top bulls in the business.
Skymall Inc. is an online shopping magazine that retails home and garden, health and beauty, electronic, clothing and accessories, travel, pet, and toy products. It offers products covering various areas such as furniture, art and decor, home security, food and wine, entertainment, organization, storage and cleaning, heating and cooling, holiday decor, bedroom, kitchen and dining, bathroom, office, fireplace, garage and tools, garden and patio, and pool products; and fitness products. Skymall Inc. is based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sonitrol provides electronic security systems for commercial enterprises. They offer verified response security solutions for schools and businesses. They offer audio intrusion alarms, monitored video, access control, closed-circuit television systems, and fire detection.
Highline Financial is the preferred source for banking information for the financial sector. Focused solely on the banking sector, their data and analytics are relied upon by senior executives at over 1000 customers to manage risk and make profitable investment decisions daily. Highline Financial has over 35 years experience in gathering, normalizing and publishing market data banking information. Formerly part of Sheshunoff and later Thomson, Highline Financial established the industry's first performance indexes, benchmarks and diagnostic models and was the sole provider for banking business analytics during the late 1980s through the 1990s, among other industry firsts.
Patriot Media and Communications
Private Equity Round in 2003
Patriot Media and Communications, LLC engages in the ownership and operation of cable system in Central New Jersey.
Nassau Broadcasting is a radio broadcasting company focused on building local radio station clusters. It offers media production and distribution services.
Encoda Systems Holdings, Inc., a leading global supplier of software and service solutions for the broadcast media industry, including television, radio, cable, satellite, and advertising agency customers around the world.
Inflow provides facility-based information technology outsourcing solutions.
iNNERHOST, Inc.
Venture Round in 2000
iNNERHOST, Inc. was formed in 1998 to provide shared and complex web hosting services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company, which was based in Miami, FL, provided its services throughout the United States with a growing presence in Latin America. In 2000, iNNERHOST received a venture capital investment of $15 million by Spire Capital to hire key talent, expand its Latin American strategy, and build out its state-of-the-art data center. On August 31, 2002, iNNERHOST was acquired (for an undisclosed amount) by Interland, an Atlanta-based company, which was one of the largest providers of web-hosting services for small and medium-sized enterprises in the United States. Prior to the merger, iNNERHOST had nearly 150 employees and its customer base included approximately 13,000 shared hosting accounts and 1,500 dedicated hosting customers. At the time, it was one of six companies in the world to be a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Products and services included shared, dedicated, clustered-hosting services, database services, domain name registration services, back-up storage, and other application hosting services.
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