WP Global Partners

WP Global Partners, founded in 2005 and based in Chicago, operates as a fund-of-funds manager, focusing on active investment strategies. The firm partners with entrepreneurs looking to grow private companies and fund managers aiming for superior returns. WP Global differentiates itself by actively engaging with companies and attending events, believing that firsthand knowledge is essential for effective investment. Through rigorous outbound efforts, the firm generates quality deal flow and investment returns while leveraging the operational experience of its partners. By investing directly in numerous private companies, private equity funds, and venture capital funds, WP Global fosters a unique synergy in deal flow. Additionally, the firm utilizes portfolio modeling and investment management tools to gain insights into market trends among small private companies, enhancing its investment conviction.

Eric Assouad

Director

Joseph Berry

MD

Tom Boudakian

Partner

Traci Breen

CFO and MD

Celia Chapman

Cco and Senior Managing Partner

Jennifer Concannon

VP

Beto Durón

Senior Associate

Eric Griffin

Principal

Dan Korybalski

VP

James Meynard

Director

Blake Middleton

Associate

Gregory Oberholtzer

CIO and Senior Managing Partner

Sean Peters

Senior Associate

Ryan Phillips

Principal

Donald Phillips

Chairman and CEO

Michael Raso

Director

Bijal Shah

MD

Jessica Shamshura

Associate

Nick Su

Principal

Lloyd Thompson

Vice Chairman and Senior Managing Partner

Tom Thompson

Senior Managing Partner

Stanley Xu

Principal

59 past transactions

Metabiota

Series A in 2015
Metabiota, Inc. engages in assessing and investigating infectious disease threats through pathogen discovery, disease detection, and threat characterization. It offers surveillance, recognition, and diagnosis of microbial threats that helps in reducing and preventing infectious disease outbreaks. The company also provides strategies to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. Metabiota, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BrightFarms

Series D in 2018
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Illumitex

Series C in 2015
Illumitex is a manufacturer of precision LEDs, LED lights, LED grow lights, and digital horticulture solutions. It transforms traditional LED design and increases the functionality with the creation of an LED package that emits light in a uniform, highly-precise beam directly from the source. Its devices provide LED lights which are mainly based on optics technology that predict, diagnose, monitor, and improve all aspects of operations that enable customers to improve the brightness and efficiency of flat-panel televisions, portable electronic devices, and digital projectors to be used for their vertical farms, greenhouses, and indoor gardening.

AliveCor

Private Placement in 2020
AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, mobile device, and medicine. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

AquaVenture Holdings

Venture Round in 2015
AquaVenture Holdings is a water purification company that specializes in the service industry. Through its Quench and Seven Seas Water businesses, AVH provides water solutions, utilizing state-of-the-art purification and desalination technologies. It was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida.

InterApp

Pre Seed Round in 2022
InterApp uses augmented reality to enable graphic designers to enhance their designs by embedding rich media content into packaging, apparel, art, and print graphics with our easy-to-use web-based platform.
Angel MedFlight is a leader and innovator in worldwide air ambulance services.

API Technologies (UK) Limited

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
API Technologies UK Limited was incorporated in 2012 and is based in the United Kingdom. API Technologies UK Limited operates as a subsidiary of API Cryptek, Inc.

Good Sportsman Marketing, LLC

Private Placement in 2020
Good Sportsman Marketing, LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes outdoor sports products for hunting, sport shooting, and rugged outdoor. Its products include digital infrared motion detector scouting cameras, laser sights and super-bright LED, halogen, and krypton lighting products. The company offers many recognizable brands in the hunting and outdoor product market, including Stealth Cam, Walker’s, Muddy Outdoors, Birchwood Casey, Hawk, Cyclops, Western Rivers, American Hunter, HME, SME, and others. It sells its products through specialty retailers, online distributors, and big-box outlets across the United States and Canada. Good Sportsman Marketing, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Irving, Texas.

SmartSky Networks

Series C in 2019
SmartSky Networks, LLC provides a 4G LTE based air-to-ground network for business aviation. The company’s products includes SmartSky 4G LTE and SmartSky LiTE. It has a strategic partnership with Avidyne Corporation. SmartSky Networks, LLC was formerly known as Jetpool Ventures, LLC. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ginger

Private Placement in 2019
Ginger is a telemental health provider delivering evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy and psychiatry from a smartphone. Ginger's on-demand system brings together behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists, who work as a team to deliver personalized care, right through your smartphone. The app provides members with access to the support they need within seconds, 24/7, 365 days a year. Millions of people have access to Ginger through leading employers, health plans, and our network of partners

project44

Secondary Market in 2021
Project44, Inc. provides a cloud-based visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics companies. It offers pricing, routing, and scheduling solutions; tracking and exception management solutions; digital documents and payments solutions; and visibility, tracking, and carrier performance analytics solutions. The company’s solutions connect, automate, and provide visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions. It supports various transportation modes and shipping types, including parcel, final-mile, less-than-truckload, volume less-than-truckload, truckload, rail, intermodal, and ocean. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Paris, France.

euNetworks Group

Secondary Market in 2015
euNetworks Group Limited is a bandwidth infrastructure provider, owning and operating 13 fibre based metropolitan networks across Europe connected with a high capacity intercity backbone covering 37 cities in 9 countries. The Company offers a portfolio of metro and longhaul Ethernet and Internet Protocol services including Dark Fibre, Dedicated Fibre, Wavelengths, Ethernet, and Internet. Enterprise and carrier customers benefit from euNetworks’ unique inventory of fibre and duct based assets that are tailored to fulfil their high bandwidth needs. euNetworks Group Limited is headquartered in London, with further offices across Western Europe. For further information go to www.eunetworks.com

Royal camp

Private Equity Round in 2011
Royal Camp Services Ltd. provides camp and catering services for remote location short term and long term projects. Its catering services include personnel, menu planning, and daily food preparation and service, as well as custodial support services for camp accommodations. The company owns and operates various open camps in Western Canada. It carries a fleet of dormitories, kitchen/diner units, wellsites, medic quarters, command centers, and recreation units. Royal Camp Services Ltd. was founded in 1991 and is based in Edmonton, Canada.

Excel Home Health

Private Equity Round in 2018
Excel Home Health provides registered nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social services, home health aide, and shift nursing. They provide services regardless of age, sex, race, color, national origin, religion, medical information, and physical/mental handicap. Their patient contact through email, phone number, and application form.

Lyons Magnus

Private Equity Round in 2017
Lyons develops and markets quality products with innovative packaging to meet the needs of Foodservice, Ingredient and International customers.

Blackpoint Cyber

Series B in 2022
Blackpoint SNAP-Defense, their Next Gen Threat Hunt + Respond platform that will detect lateral movement in its earliest stages and allow you to neutralize threats before they spread. They have developed a product that crushes the competition in threat hunting - threats are delivered to the dashboard in real time, giving you the ability to detain the effected devices with the click of a button. However, if you wish to conduct a deep dive and historical analysis on the data collected - feel free! SNAP-Defense's elegant interface makes this process simple and intuitive.

Blackpoint Cyber

Series C in 2023
Blackpoint SNAP-Defense, their Next Gen Threat Hunt + Respond platform that will detect lateral movement in its earliest stages and allow you to neutralize threats before they spread. They have developed a product that crushes the competition in threat hunting - threats are delivered to the dashboard in real time, giving you the ability to detain the effected devices with the click of a button. However, if you wish to conduct a deep dive and historical analysis on the data collected - feel free! SNAP-Defense's elegant interface makes this process simple and intuitive.

Alacura

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Alacura Medical Transportation Management LLC offers medical transportation benefits management services. It offers services in the areas of facility-to-facility ground and air non-emergency medical transfers for specialized treatment with life support equipment, medications, and medical transport crew; domestic and international service with medical flights to rehabilitation facilities and other special facilities around the world, as well as medical transports for hospice and palliative care; and acute and specialty care for medical conditions, such as neonatal transport, traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, post trauma, organ transplant recipients, open or closed head injuries, respiratory illness, cancer patients, and burn and wound patients. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

BrightFarms

Series B in 2015
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Fast Pace Health

Private Equity Round in 2016
Fast Pace Urgent Care is dedicated to providing primary, walk-in and urgent care to the communities they serve. They provide treatments for a wide range of illnesses, injuries, and common conditions, as well as provide a variety of wellness, diagnostic and screening services.

Accedian

Venture Round in 2017
Performance assured networking™ for mobile backhaul, business services and cloud connectivity

Corsicana Bedding

Private Equity Round in 2015
Corsicana Bedding is a furniture company that provides mattresses and bedding solutions.

Accommodations Plus Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Accommodations Plus Inc. provides travel management services. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Lindenhurst, New York.

Postmates

Private Placement in 2016
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

Envestnet

Private Equity Round in 2005
Envestnet, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness in the United States and internationally. It operates through Envestnet Welth Solutions and Envestnet Data & Analytics segments. The company’s product and services include Envestnet | Enterprise, which provides an end-to-end open architecture wealth management platform, as well as sells data aggregation and reporting, data analytics, and digital advice capabilities; Envestnet | Tamarac that provides trading, rebalancing, portfolio accounting, performance reporting, and client relationship management software; and Envestnet | MoneyGuide that provides goals-based financial planning solutions to the financial services industry. It also provides Envestnet | Retirement Solutions, which offer a suite of services for advisor-sold retirement plans; and Envestnet | Portfolio Management Consultants that provide research and consulting services to assist advisors in creating investment solutions for their clients, and portfolio overlay and tax optimization services, as well as data aggregation and data analytics platform, which offers cloud-based innovation for digital financial services. The company primarily serves banks, wealth management and brokerage firms, internet services companies, and registered investment advisers. Envestnet, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

AgroVision

Private Equity Round in 2017
AgroVision is a grower, packer, and shipper of fruits and vegetables.

AliveCor

Series E in 2020
AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, mobile device, and medicine. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

RedPoint Global

Series C in 2016
RedPoint Global is a software company that develops marketing software for business-to-consumer companies. It provides market-leading data management and customer engagement technology that empowers organizations to optimize customer value and deliver their brand promise with high contextual relevance across all touchpoints. The RedPoint Customer Engagement Hub delivers a unified view of each customer, in-line analytics to determine next-best actions, and intelligent orchestration to personalize engagement across the enterprise. Leading companies of all sizes trust the RedPoint Customer Engagement Hub to power their customer engagement strategy and drive profitable revenue growth. It is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and was founded in 2006.

CeloNova

Venture Round in 2018
CeloNova BioSciences, Inc., headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a global medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets a family of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular products. Our products are developed and manufactured in California, U.S.A. and Germany. The Company’s regional offices are located in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Austria. CeloNova’s Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular products are currently available in more than fifty countries.

BrightFarms

Series C in 2016
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

BrightFarms

Private Placement in 2018
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Illumitex

Venture Round in 2017
Illumitex is a manufacturer of precision LEDs, LED lights, LED grow lights, and digital horticulture solutions. It transforms traditional LED design and increases the functionality with the creation of an LED package that emits light in a uniform, highly-precise beam directly from the source. Its devices provide LED lights which are mainly based on optics technology that predict, diagnose, monitor, and improve all aspects of operations that enable customers to improve the brightness and efficiency of flat-panel televisions, portable electronic devices, and digital projectors to be used for their vertical farms, greenhouses, and indoor gardening.

Augusta Sportswear

Private Equity Round in 2009
Augusta Sportswear is an apparel & fashion company offering sportswear.

AliveCor

Series F in 2022
AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, mobile device, and medicine. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Ginger

Series C in 2019
Ginger is a telemental health provider delivering evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy and psychiatry from a smartphone. Ginger's on-demand system brings together behavioral health coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists, who work as a team to deliver personalized care, right through your smartphone. The app provides members with access to the support they need within seconds, 24/7, 365 days a year. Millions of people have access to Ginger through leading employers, health plans, and our network of partners

Eat Just

Series C in 2014
Our mission is to build a food system where everyone is eating well. Eating well means eating food that nourishes our bodies. Eating food that strengthens the planet. Eating food that tastes exceptionally good—and is JUST for all. Our technology, which is based upon understanding plants from every corner of the planet, enables consumers, food manufacturers, and the largest retailers around the world to offer better, healthier products, at a more affordable cost.

Lakeview Farms

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Lakeview Farms, LLC produces dips, desserts, and specialty products. It offers dessert products, such as puddings, gelatins, and parfaits. The company also provides dips, including vegetable and seafood dips. In addition, it offers specialty products, such as sour creams, grits, seafood salad, cocktail sauces, and crema products. Lakeview Farms, LLC was founded in 1988 and is based in Delphos, Ohio.

Powerhouse

Private Equity Round in 2019
Powerhouse is a provider of national construction services, facility maintenance and rollouts. They leverage unparalleled service and technology to implement solutions that enable their customers to maximize brand presence and profitability. Continuous improvement and implementation of sustainable processes and protocols have been integral to their success. Founded in 1996, originally as a retail signage company, Powerhouse has always provided clients with unmatched service and efficiency – let us create a Raving Fan out of you!

SmartSky Networks

Private Placement in 2019
SmartSky Networks, LLC provides a 4G LTE based air-to-ground network for business aviation. The company’s products includes SmartSky 4G LTE and SmartSky LiTE. It has a strategic partnership with Avidyne Corporation. SmartSky Networks, LLC was formerly known as Jetpool Ventures, LLC. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Drillinginfo

Secondary Market in 2010
Drilling Info accelerates workflows and business critical decision processes for the oil and gas industry resulting in faster, smarter, safer exploration and production of global resources with their comprehensive array of information, intelligence and analysis platforms. Drilling Info has more than 2,700 accounts globally with more than 20,000 users. Drilling Info members produce more than 90 percent of domestic oil and gas in the United States. The Company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices throughout the U.S oil patch in addition to the UK, Southeast Asia, and South America.

AliveCor

Series C in 2016
AliveCor has a device and application that will turn any smartphone into a clinical-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder. AliveCor is pioneering the creation of FDA-cleared 'machine learning' techniques to enable proactive heart care and is recognized around the world for transforming cardiac care. It specializes in the fields of healthcare, mobile device, and medicine. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

BrightFarms

Series B in 2014
BrightFarms is an indoor farming company that specializes in providing locally grown packaged salads. Its salads are tender, pesticide-free, and produced in an indoor, controlled environment, enabling consumers to have a non-GMO salad. BrightFarms operates hydroponic greenhouse farms in the communities it serves, enabling it to eliminate time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Irvington, New York.

Powerhouse

Private Equity Round in 2019
Powerhouse is a provider of national construction services, facility maintenance and rollouts. They leverage unparalleled service and technology to implement solutions that enable their customers to maximize brand presence and profitability. Continuous improvement and implementation of sustainable processes and protocols have been integral to their success. Founded in 1996, originally as a retail signage company, Powerhouse has always provided clients with unmatched service and efficiency – let us create a Raving Fan out of you!

Performance Health

Private Equity Round in 2012
Performance Health is a global consumer branded health, wellness and self-care company. The Performance Health brands include Active Ankle, Biofreeze, TheraBand, Cramer, Bon Vital, TheraPearl, Hygenic and Perform, featuring a complementary product offering helping practitioners and patients relieve pain, accelerate recovery, grow stronger, improve performance and enhance quality of life for nearly 100 years.

Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance

Private Equity Round in 2014
Angel MedFlight is a leader and innovator in worldwide air ambulance services.

Foundation Partners Group

Private Equity Round in 2015
FPG was founded in 2010. In just over two years, the company more than doubled in size. They now serve more than 7,000 Families annually in 13 states at one of their 45 locations across the country. They are uniquely positioned to create new paths in the funeral industry. Because they are a private company, they have the opportunity to make long-term decisions that embrace each funeral home’s individual characteristics and community values. It is their passion and unwavering commitment to their Partners, Team Members, and their Families that will carry on their story and the stories of those they serve into the future of the funeral industry.

Deltek

Private Equity Round in 2012
Deltek provides enterprise management application software, maintaining a focus on the architecture and engineering, IT services, management consulting, construction, systems integration and government contracting markets.

MindCare Solutions

Series A in 2015
MindCare is a provider of round-the-clock telepsychiatry and behavioral health services to hospitals, emergency departments, outpatient clinics, and correctional facilities. Our team of employed, board-certified psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, licensed clinical social workers, and experienced healthcare administrators works collaboratively with your team to deliver the best quality care to your patients.

Lakeview Farms

Private Equity Round in 2014
Lakeview Farms, LLC produces dips, desserts, and specialty products. It offers dessert products, such as puddings, gelatins, and parfaits. The company also provides dips, including vegetable and seafood dips. In addition, it offers specialty products, such as sour creams, grits, seafood salad, cocktail sauces, and crema products. Lakeview Farms, LLC was founded in 1988 and is based in Delphos, Ohio.

Postmates

Series E in 2016
Postmates is an on-demand food delivery. The platform gives customers access to the most selection of merchants in the US with more than 600,000 restaurants and retailers available for delivery and pickup, many of which are exclusive to Postmates. The market leader in Los Angeles and markets across the southwest, Postmates covers 80% of US households, across all 50 states. Customers can get free delivery on all merchants by joining Postmates Unlimited, the industry's first subscription service.

LANDESK Software

Private Equity Round in 2010
LANDesk Software, Inc. develops and delivers integrated management, security, and process automation solutions for enterprise IT management. Its solutions include LANDesk configuration management software; IT service management, which enables users to streamline operations, maintenance tasks, and automate and standardize processes; server management software; and LANDesk Asset Lifecycle Manager, which allows users to manage IT and business processes with consolidated asset configuration. The company also provides LANDesk Management Gateway Appliance, an appliance for managing mobile and distributed computer systems through the Internet, which offers the integrated configuration and security management functionality over the Internet, including inventory and asset management, software license monitoring, on-demand remote control, vulnerability scan and remediation, security configuration management, and software distribution and patch management functions. In addition, it offers professional, training, and customer support services. The company’s solutions help IT teams to automate and manage desktops, servers, and mobile devices. It sells its solutions through a network of resellers and VARs in the United States and internationally. LANDesk Software, Inc. has strategic alliances and partnerships with Gateway, Dell, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Touchpaper. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah with additional offices in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. As of September 1, 2006, LANDesk Software, Inc. is a subsidiary of Avocent Corporation.

Carbon Health

Series D in 2023
Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers virtual care experience. It offers primary care services through a mobile application that enables users to follow-up on a treatment plan, manage prescriptions, and see lab reports all through one app. Carbon Health has created a coronavirus assessment tool and also set up covid-19 testing in California. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Liberty Dialysis

Private Equity Round in 2010
Liberty Dialysis, LLC, along with its affiliates, develops, owns, and operates dialysis clinics in the United States. It offers chronic kidney disease outreach and home dialysis programs. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Mercer Island, Washington. It has clinic locations in Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. As of February 28, 2012, Liberty Dialysis, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGAA.

Monogram Foods

Private Equity Round in 2015
Monogram Foods Solutions is a manufacturer and marketer of value-added meat products, snacks, and appetizers. It specializes in strategic co-packing, private label, and branded business, with both owned brands and licensed brands. Its broad portfolio of products includes beef jerky, bacon jerky, turkey jerky, meat sticks, pickled sausages and pickled eggs, smoked sausage, hotdogs, pre-cooked bacon, bacon, corndogs, mini corndogs, pancake and sausage, potato skins, onion rings, breaded cheese strips, cheese curds, jalapeno poppers, breaded mushrooms, breaded vegetables, and other value-added foods. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Systems Control

Private Equity Round in 2018
Systems Control specializes in engineering and manufacturing of equipment enclosures and control and relay panels used in electrical transmission and distribution substations across North America. The Company’s manufacturing operations are located in Iron Mountain, Michigan.