This sponsor

Independent sponsorVerified sponsor· US
Observed deals
2
Principals
1
Latest deal
May 2018
As of · the mandate; 13 observations on record

The sponsor's name, 3 additional deals and portfolio companies

Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.

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Who they are
1 person named
What they buy (claimed)
revenue $100M and up
founder family
As the firm states it, not checked against its deals.
What they have done
2 observed deals · latest May 2018
2 platforms
Tech-enabled and IT services, Business services, Manufacturing, Distribution
too few deals to say (2 on record)
Portfolio
Who finances them
Lenders: Gladstone Investment Corporation
Equity partners: Gladstone Investment Corporation
Who to call
No principal named yet.
Reveal a line
Latest: Deal, May 2018
Key people
1 person · 1 with a confirmed email · 0 with a direct phone

ranked by who matters most in a conversation with this firm

  • Founder and Managing Member
    Investment

    Founder and Managing Member, the firm's investment decision-maker

    • Confirmed professional email available

1 confirmed professional email for the people at this firm

Each one published by the firm or verified, never a guessed pattern, with the page it came from.

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Why this kind
  • for: 2 announced transactions as buyer
What they claim, and what they have done
Observed
  • 2 platform or control deals, Apr 1, 2018 to May 1, 2018
  • 0 add-ons bought by its portfolio companies
  • 0 recapitalizations, 0 minority stakes
  • Platform targets by state: OR 1, IL 1
Claimed on its own website
  • Sectors: Industrial manufacturing, Business services, Specialty distribution, Tech enabled services
  • Revenue: $100M and up
  • Geography (unaudited quote): United States
  • Founder or family owned (unaudited quote): yes
What the filings and deals add up to
Sectors transacted
Business services (1)
Factvertical of the acquired targets· 85%· DFX's own graph
How do we know

Verified sponsor. Evidence identifies a firm: a publisher named it as the buyer in an announced transaction, a law firm or capital partner page names it as an independent sponsor, or its own site says so.

Nothing on this page comes from a website claim unless it is labelled as such with the URL.

Who has financed them
Observed once
Financing, deal by deal
DateCompanyFinanced byRoleAmountSource
May 1, 2018J.R. Johnson
Business services, OR
Capital providerequity providerNot disclosedglobenewswire.com
May 1, 2018J.R. Johnson
Business services, OR
Gladstone Investment Corporationcapital providerNot disclosedglobenewswire.com
Service provider relationships
No service provider has been observed on this sponsor's deals yet. Firms are placed on a deal only when an announcement, a filing or the firm's own deal page names them in the role.
Who finances deals like theirs
The most recent deal of theirs we could classify by sector closed May 1, 2018, outside the two-year window this list reads.

Read from the sectors this firm has actually bought in: business services (1).

What have they done
Platform and control deals (2)
  1. May 1, 2018Platform acquisitionconfidence 85%
    this sponsor acquired J.R. Johnson (Portland, OR)
    · Capital providerGladstone Investment Corporation · Capital providerGladstone Investment Corporation · Lender
    Deal page · DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) globenewswire.com · globenewswire.com globenewswire.com · gladstoneinvestment.com gladstoneinvestment.com · mcguirewoods.com mcguirewoods.com
  2. Apr 2018Platform acquisitionconfidence 80%
    this sponsor acquired (Chicago, IL)
    Deal page · DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) no URL
No vehicles linked.
  1. May 1, 2018Acquisition announced
    DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) globenewswire.com
What appears to be their current activity

No vehicle filed in the last 12 months.

Principals, from the firm's own site
  • UnnamedFounder and Managing Member
Who to call
the organisation, the role and the published line, with the filing or website that published it; revealed to signed-in accounts
The firm's published line
Revealable: 1 website (sponsor website) · as of 2026-09-17
  • Founder and Managing Member · Revealable: 1 professional profile (the firm's own page)

Who to call is the organisation, the person's role and the line they published themselves: a business phone, office address, website or profile link from Form ADV, Form 13F or their own website, with that source named on every value. The counts above are what a reveal returns; a personal email is rarely published, so most reveals are the firm's line. Never data bought from a provider, never anything personal. Reveals by plan

Portfolio companies (2)
Evidence
FactValueClassSource
Entity kindIndependent sponsor firmFactSBIA Independent Sponsor Forum roster sbia.org
Entity kindIndependent sponsor firmInferenceDFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL
Entity kindUnknown investment entityInferenceDFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL
Sponsor classificationIndependent sponsor firmFactSBIA Independent Sponsor Forum roster sbia.org

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