This sponsor

Independent sponsorVerified sponsor· US
Observed deals
11
Principals
3
Latest deal
Oct 2024
As of · the mandate; 6 observations on record

The sponsor's name, 10 additional capital, identity and service provider links, 18 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
6 people named
What they buy (claimed)
No size stated on the firm's own site.
As the firm states it, not checked against its deals.
What they have done
11 observed deals · latest Oct 2024
2 platforms, 8 add-ons
Tech-enabled and IT services, Business services
targets of 42 to 290 plan participants (DFX estimate from 3 deals)
Portfolio
None on record yet.
Who finances them
Equity partners: a partner
Who to call
a named professional
Reveal a line (email on record)
Latest: Deal, Oct 2024
Key people
4 people · 4 with a confirmed email · 0 with a direct phone

ranked by who matters most in a conversation with this firm

  • Partner
    Investment

    Partner, a senior member of the deal team

    • Confirmed professional email available
  • Partner
    Investment

    Partner, a senior member of the deal team

    • Confirmed professional email available
  • Operating Partner
    Operations

    Operating Partner, a senior member of the deal team

    • Confirmed professional email available
  • Partner
    Investment

    Partner, a senior member of the deal team

    • Confirmed professional email available

4 confirmed professional emails 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
  • 3 platform or control deals, Feb 11, 2021 to Oct 31, 2024
  • 8 add-ons bought by its portfolio companies
  • 0 recapitalizations, 0 minority stakes
  • Platform targets by state: PA 1
Claimed on its own website

No buy criteria were read from its website.

What the filings and deals add up to
Sectors transacted
Tech enabled services (7); 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
Oct 31, 2024Evolve Ip, LLC
Business services, PA
Capital providerequity providerNot disclosedprnewswire.com
Feb 11, 2021ATSG (AxisPoint Technology Solutions Group)a capital providerequity coinvestNot disclosedprnewswire.com
Service provider relationships

2 more facts and signals are on record for this page. They name the firms involved and open with Independent Sponsor Intelligence.

Legal (2)
Investment banking (1)
Who finances deals like theirs

DFX has not observed these firms together on any transaction in our coverage. That is a statement about what DFX has read, not about the firms: a deal that was never announced, or announced without naming its capital, cannot appear here.

Coverage behind this list: 3 providers observed financing sponsors in these 2 sectors · 8 of this firm's own deals read in them · most recent of theirs observed Feb 19, 2026.

  • Stellus Capital ManagementBusiness services7 deals in business services, latest Aug 12, 2025
    seen as equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, senior debt
  • Abacus Finance Group, LLCBusiness services5 deals in business services, latest Feb 19, 2026
    seen as equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, senior debt
  • Tecum CapitalBusiness services5 deals in business services, latest Jun 9, 2025
    seen as capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider, lender

Read from the sectors this firm has actually bought in: tech-enabled services (7), business services (1).

What have they done
Platform and control deals (2)
  1. Oct 31, 2024Mergerconfidence 90%
    this sponsor acquired Evolve Ip, LLC (Wayne, PA)
    Rothschild & Co · AdvisorGuggenheim Securities, LLC · Advisor · Capital providerChoate, Hall & Stewart LLP · Counsel · Counsel
    Deal team: 4 firms · DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) prnewswire.com
  2. Mar 22, 2022Platform acquisitionconfidence 80%
    this sponsor acquired Ascent Solutions
    D.A. Davidson & Co. · Advisor
    Deal team: 1 firm · DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) brightonhouseassociates.com · brightonhouseassociates.com brightonhouseassociates.com · prnewswire.com prnewswire.com
Add-ons (1)
  1. Dec 14, 2021Add onconfidence 80%
    this sponsor acquired Optanix, Inc. (New York, NY)
    Deal page · DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) prnewswire.com
No vehicles linked.
  1. Feb 11, 2021Acquisition announced
    DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) prnewswire.com
What appears to be their current activity

No vehicle filed in the last 12 months.

Principals, from the firm's own site
  • a named professionalPartner
  • a named professionalPartner
  • a named professionalPartner
Team, as the firm lists it
  • Michael PisterziOperating Partner
Advisors and operating network
  • Drew KeltonSenior Advisor
  • Kerri FordSenior Advisor
Who to call
the organisation, the role and the published line, with the filing or website that published it; revealed to signed-in accounts
  • a named professional
    Partner · Revealable: 1 professional profile (the firm's own page), 1 work email (the firm's own page)
  • a named professional
    Partner · Revealable: 1 professional profile (the firm's own page)
  • a named professional
    Partner · Revealable: 1 professional profile (the firm's own page), 1 work email (the firm's own page)
  • Michael Pisterzi
    Operating Partner · 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 (12)
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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