This sponsor
- Observed deals
- 1
- Principals
- 2
- Latest deal
- Feb 2025
The sponsor's name, 7 additional capital, identity and service provider links, 11 additional deals and portfolio companies, 2 verified contacts (1 email, 1 phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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- From the Ground Up Lawn Care and platform, Dec 2024
- From The Ground Up
- Health Payment Systems
ranked by who matters most in a conversation with this firm
- FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR, the firm's investment decision-maker
- Confirmed professional email available
- Direct professional line available
- PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL, a senior professional at the firm
- Confirmed professional email available
- Direct professional line available
2 confirmed professional emails and 2 direct lines 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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- 1 platform or control deal, Feb 11, 2025 to Feb 11, 2025
- 0 add-ons bought by its portfolio companies
- 0 recapitalizations, 0 minority stakes
- Platform targets by state: MN 1
- Sector thesis: Business services, Consumer services
- EBITDA: $1M and up
- Control (unaudited quote): yes
- Minority stakes (unaudited quote): yes
- Founder or family owned (unaudited quote): yes
- From The Ground Up
- Health Payment Systems
- Sectors transacted
- Consumer services (1)Factvertical of the acquired targets· 85%· DFX's own graph
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.
- Repeat relationshipTradition Capital Bank has financed 2 observed this sponsor transactions (2025).Roles: capital provider, lender
- Feb 11, 2025From the Ground Up Lawn Care andfaegredrinker.com
- From the Ground Up Lawn Care and Clean-Up LLCno URL
| Date | Company | Financed by | Role | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2025 | From the Ground Up Lawn Care and Consumer services, MN | Tradition Capital Bank | capital provider, lender | Not disclosed | faegredrinker.com |
- Miske (counsel) on 1 of 1 observed transactions where its counsel is known, since 2025. deal 1
1 more fact or signal is on record for this page. They name the firms involved and open with Independent Sponsor Intelligence.
- Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath · Ryan R. Miske1 observed engagementSponsor counsel, Fund formation counsel, Borrower counsel. Most recent deal, Feb 11, 2025 Faegre Drinker
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 this sector · 1 of this firm's own deals read in them · most recent of theirs observed Jan 1, 2026.
- seen as capital provider, co sponsor, equity coinvest, equity provider
- seen as capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider
- seen as co sponsor, equity coinvest, equity provider
Read from the sectors this firm has actually bought in: consumer services (1).
- Feb 11, 2025Platform acquisitionconfidence 80%Tradition Capital Bank · Capital providerFaegre Drinker Biddle & Reath · CounselDeal team: 1 firm · DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) faegredrinker.com · faegredrinker.com faegredrinker.com · cervanocapital.com cervanocapital.com · kvci.com kvci.com
- Feb 11, 2025Acquisition announcedDFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) faegredrinker.com
No vehicle filed in the last 12 months.
- a named professionalFOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
- UnnamedPRINCIPAL
- a named professionalFOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR · Revealable: 1 business phone (the firm's own page), 1 work email (the firm's own page)
- PRINCIPAL · Revealable: 1 business phone (the firm's own page), 1 work email (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
| Fact | Value | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Fact | SBIA Independent Sponsor Forum roster sbia.org |
| Entity kind | Unknown investment entity | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Mandate | EBITDA from $1M | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Mandate | EBITDA from $1M | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Sponsor classification | Independent sponsor firm | Fact | SBIA Independent Sponsor Forum roster sbia.org |
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