DFX Intelligence
Artinia Group
As of · the mandate; 21 observations on record
- Vehicles
- 0
- Principals
- 2
As of · the mandate; 21 observations on record
7 additional deals and portfolio companies, 1 verified contact (1 email)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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Who they are
San Diego, CA · 2 people named
Lower middle market private equity firm and independent sponsor partnering with family-owned and operator-led businesses.
What they buy (claimed)
EBITDA $2M and up artiniagp.com
add on, control, founder family, minority, recap
As the firm states it, not checked against its deals.
What they have done
2 observed deals · latest Dec 2025
2 platforms
Tech-enabled and IT services, Business services, Industrial services, Manufacturing, Distribution
too few deals to say (2 on record)
Portfolio
- TMMG platform, Dec 2025
- Canvas, Inc. platform, Feb 2024
Who finances them
Equity partners: Gemini Investors, True West Capital Partners
Who to call
Nicholas Osborne, Mykel Sprinkles
Reveal a line (email on record)
Latest: Deal, Dec 2025
Why this kind
- for: states it is an independent sponsor (website or mandate text)
- for: 1 announced transaction as buyer
What they claim, and what they have done
Observed
- 2 platform or control deals, Feb 1, 2024 to Dec 16, 2025
- 0 add-ons bought by its portfolio companies
- 0 recapitalizations, 0 minority stakes
- Platform targets by state: VA 1, AL 1
Claimed on its own website
- Sectors: Industrial manufacturing, Energy services, Industrial services, Tech enabled services, Business services, Specialty distribution“Aerospace & Defense” artiniagp.com
- Sector thesis: Industrial manufacturing, Energy services“The companies we look to partner with operate broadly in the supply chains of the aerospace and defense, telecommunications, renewable energy and semiconductor industries.” artiniagp.com
- EBITDA: $2M and up“$2M+ Profitability (EBITDA)” artiniagp.com
- Revenue: $10M and up, $3M and up“$10M+ Revenue” artiniagp.com
- Equity check: $5M to $40M“$5-40m equity/structured equity investment” artiniagp.com
- Control (unaudited quote): yes“Full acquisitions” artiniagp.com
- Minority stakes (unaudited quote): yes“Majority or minority recaps” artiniagp.com
- Founder or family owned (unaudited quote): yes“Artinia Group is a private investment firm helping to unlock growth opportunities for exceptional family-owned and operator-led businesses” artiniagp.com
- Add-ons (unaudited quote): yes“Maintain debt availability for add-ons” artiniagp.com
What the filings and deals add up to
- Independent sponsor stated
- trueFacta public announcement or the firm's own page calls it an independent sponsor· 90%· DFX's own graph
- 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 themWhat these counts meanCounts are the financings DFX has read in announcements. Most come from lenders' own deal archives, which list a lender's repeat deals with a sponsor but not the sponsor's deals with other lenders, so a repeat relationship shows where one lender publishes and is not a rate at which sponsors return to a lender. Counts undercount and record past financing; DFX does not predict who will finance a deal.
- Repeat relationshipGemini Investors has financed 2 observed Artinia Group transactions (2024 to 2025).Roles: capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider
- Dec 16, 2025TMMGartiniagp.com
- Feb 1, 2024Canvas, Inc.artiniagp.com
- Repeat relationshipTrue West Capital Partners has financed 2 observed Artinia Group transactions (2024 to 2025).Roles: capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider
- Dec 16, 2025TMMGartiniagp.com
- Feb 1, 2024Canvas, Inc.artiniagp.com
Financing, deal by deal
| Date | Company | Financed by | Role | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2025 | TMMG VA | Gemini Investors | equity coinvest, equity provider | Not disclosed | artiniagp.com |
Who finances deals like theirsHow this is rankedRanked by deals read in these sectors, not by fit: this is the capital that shows up in announcements around firms like this one, which is a place to start a list and not a prediction about who will finance the next deal.
The most recent deal of theirs we could classify by sector closed Feb 1, 2024, 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)
- Dec 16, 2025Platform acquisitionconfidence 90%Gemini Investors · Capital providerTrue West Capital Partners · Capital providerLippes Mathias LLP · CounselLippes Mathias LLP · CounselGemini Investors · Equity providerTrue West Capital Partners · Equity provider
Artinia Group, a lower middle market private equity firm focused on partnering with exceptional family-owned and operator-led businesses, announced it has made a strategic growth investment in Chesapeake, VA-based TMMG, a leading provider of systems engineering and life cycle asset management services to U.S. defense agencies.
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) artiniagp.com - Feb 1, 2024Platform acquisitionconfidence 90%Gemini Investors · Equity providerTrue West Capital Partners · Equity provider
announced it has made a strategic growth investment in Canvas, a leading provider of engineering, technical, and lifecycle management services to U.S. defense agencies
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) artiniagp.com
No vehicles linked.
- Dec 16, 2025AcquiredArtinia Group acquired a strategic growth stake in TMMG (Chesapeake, VA)DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) artiniagp.com
- Dec 16, 2025Acquisition announcedArtinia Group acquired a strategic growth stake in TMMG (Chesapeake, VA)DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) artiniagp.com
- Feb 1, 2024Acquisition announcedArtinia Group acquired Canvas, Inc. (AL) with Gemini Investors, True West Capital PartnersDFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) artiniagp.com
What appears to be their current activity
No vehicle filed in the last 12 months; latest filing n/a, first observed n/a.
Principals, from the firm's own site
- Nicholas OsborneManaging Partner
- Mykel SprinklesManaging Partner
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), 2 work emails (sponsor website), 1 contact form (sponsor website) · as of 2026-09-17
Also named here, with no published line of their own (reach them through the firm): Mykel Sprinkles (Managing Partner), Nicholas Osborne (Managing Partner).
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)
Lower middle market private equity firm and independent sponsor partnering with family-owned and operator-led businesses.
As described in a counterparty's release, from lippes.com.
Evidence
| Fact | Value | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Fact | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) lippes.com | |
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Fact | SBIA Independent Sponsor Forum roster sbia.org |
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Independent sponsor stated | independent sponsor | Fact | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) lippes.com |
| Investment thesis | Fact | Independent sponsor firm websites (the firm's own contact and team pages) no URL | |
| Mandate | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | |
| Mandate | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | |
| Mandate | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | |
| Mandate | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | |
| Mandate | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | |
| Mandate | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
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