About this graphIndependent sponsors and the lower middle market companies whose filings show an ownership transition, with the SBICs, mezzanine funds, private equity firms and family offices observed financing sponsor acquisitions, deal by deal.Verified sponsors are those the evidence gate admits (68 of 3,677 harvested names on 2026-09-15); candidates are counted apart and never published as sponsors.Computed by the independent sponsors graph's statistics view from filings; announcements. Sources refresh on their own cadence: four passes a day.Companies: companies on the sponsor statistics view. Sponsors: sponsors on the sponsor statistics view. Capital providers: capital providers on the sponsor statistics view. Transactions: transactions on the sponsor statistics view. Transition signals: transition signals on the sponsor statistics view. Sponsor matches: matches on the sponsor statistics view. Cadence: four passes a day.Sponsors, capital providers, companies and transactions are the heading counts of the lists each tile opens, the same four the product’s front page prints.
What changedHow this block is rankedMarket events on this graph whose source states a date between Oct 7, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026. Bookkeeping and undated items are left out, as they are on the events feed by default.Each event is scored 40% on the feed’s importance score, 25% on recency inside the window, 20% on the dollar amount (log scale, unverified amounts count zero) and 15% on the source’s stated confidence. Ties go to the later date. “Important now” is the top 5, at most 2 from any one group; one story prints once.Each group’s count is the exact number of events its link opens.
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Form 8-K filed 2026-11-05 reports the departure of Joshua Kinsell from the role of Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer of Digital Turbine, Inc., effective 2026-11-02
Form 8-K filed 2026-11-05 reports the appointment of Alexander E. C. Overstrom as Executive Vice President and Head of Retail and Chief Financial Officer of PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC., effective 2027-03-01
The shared identity layer holds nine graphs (allocator, family office, independent sponsor, private credit, private equity, re, real estate fund, RIA and wealth and venture) and resolves 36,980 clusters onto at least three of them by shared CRD, CIK, EIN, ADV fund id or individual CRD, never by name; 6,782 span four or more and 1,657 span five. LLC, Alliance Bernstein, L.P..
Cyprium Partners appears as equity provider or lender on 13 independent sponsor deal records covering 8 target companies between 2019-07-18 and 2026-09-09, 5 in the last twelve months. Most recent: Cyprium Partners was equity provider on Salt Creek Capital's platform acquisition of Craig Wire Products LLC
Jul 18, 2019 to Sep 9, 20263 evidence rowsconfirmed today
Plexus Capital appears as equity provider or lender on 9 independent sponsor deal records covering 7 target companies between 2015-01-15 and 2026-09-14, 1 in the last twelve months. Most recent: Plexus Capital, LLC was lender on a sponsor's unknown of Claris Vision
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Jan 15, 2015 to Sep 14, 20263 evidence rowsconfirmed today
Salem Investment Partners appears as equity provider or lender on 8 independent sponsor deal records covering 6 target companies between 2023-09-22 and 2026-09-13, 2 in the last twelve months. Most recent: Salem Investment Partners was lender on a sponsor's platform acquisition of Purple RTO Holdings (Purple Cactus and Purple Horseshoe)
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Sep 22, 2023 to Sep 13, 20263 evidence rowsconfirmed today
Peninsula Capital Partners, L.L.C. appears as equity provider or lender on 166 independent sponsor deal records covering 90 target companies between 1997-03-15 and 2026-06-15, 4 in the last twelve months. Most recent: Peninsula Capital Partners, L.L.C. was equity provider on a sponsor's platform acquisition of Art Sign, LLC
Mar 15, 1997 to Jun 15, 20263 evidence rowsconfirmed today
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Every name, record and relationship behind this count, with the source on each.
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How this chart is builtPopulation: published sponsor transactions with an announced date in the last four yearsDerivation: count grouped by quarter and transaction typeSource: DFX published series, isi transactions quarter
Q3 2026, latest complete quarter
Range: Q4 22 to Q4 26
observed history
Sponsor matches are held for testing and not served: company to sponsor pairs were withdrawn after two blind audits.
Only verified sponsor firms and sponsor groups are served as sponsors; other entities never are.
A sponsor and capital provider pair is observed deal history, never a prediction.
A record departure is never called a sale.
Sources
Filings
Benefit-plan filings, exempt offerings, adviser registrations, federal programme directories and state registries: the record a private company leaves behind without ever publishing accounts.
cadence: weekly to monthly
Announcements
Press releases and sponsors' own sites, quoted, used to date a transaction.
cadence: daily
What this graph reads
Registered feeds
36
each with a rights determination
Publishing bodies
28
distinct, behind those feeds
Source families
8
kinds of record read
Publishable
26
of 36; the rest never reach a page
Family
What it carries
Feeds
Federal regulator filings
What firms, funds and plans are required to tell a federal regulator, on the regulator's own schedule.
13
State registries and regulators
Entity registrations, licences, liens and state-level dockets, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
7
Firm and issuer disclosures
What an organisation publishes about itself: its own site, its reports, its plan and fund disclosures.
6
Federal program and statistical data
Federal programme registers and statistical series: who is funded, insured, assisted or measured.
3
News and newswire
Dated announcements, used to corroborate and to date an event, never as the only witness to a fact.
3
DFX's own graph
Facts this system produced: resolved identities, typed relationships, detector output, labelled outcomes.
2
Membership and industry directories
Self-identified rosters, used to find candidates; nothing is published on a directory's word alone.
1
Public records
Public records that do not sit in one of the families above.
1
23Open3Attribution10Restricted
Open
public domain or an explicit open licence; facts publish
Attribution
publishes, and the publisher is named on every row it produced
Restricted
read for discovery at most; nothing from it is stored as a published fact
Of the 23 feeds that record a read, 13% were read in the last day, 39% in the last week and 74% in the last month. A feed is read on the cadence its publisher changes on, so a quarterly filing being a quarter old is the correct answer rather than a stale one.
Every source is registered with its publisher, access mechanism, cadence and a rights determination before its first row is read, and a source without a green determination never reaches a page. The registry itself is not published: which feeds exist, which answer, and which are worth reading is the work. What is published is the provenance of every individual claim, on the record it belongs to, and the shape of what stands behind it. Buyers running diligence get the registry under contract.