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Spring Lake Equity Partners is a Boston-based investment firm specializing in private technology companies, focusing on those with revenues between $5 and $50 million. The firm partners with management teams to develop growth strategies, providing investments ranging from $5 to $20 million to fund growth initiatives or offer liquidity. With a emphasis on sectors such as software, internet, and financial technologies, Spring Lake Equity adds value through active board participation and strategic planning facilitated by a strong network of contacts. The founding partners bring extensive experience and a successful track record in the private equity space to support their portfolio companies' growth and success. Generated from the website

Parthenon Capital is a private equity firm with more than $1.1 billion of capital under management. The firm focuses on providing strategic resources and capital to middle market companies for acquisition and internal growth strategies. Parthenon targets companies in the business and financial services, health care, distribution, niche manufacturing and consumer products industries that have revenues between $50 million and $500 million. Some of its portfolio companies include AccuMed Home Health, Kenexa, Restaurant Technologies, Spheris and Arrow Financial Services. The company employs approximately 50 people at its offices in Boston and San Francisco. Parthenon Capital has been in business since 1998.

Nautic Partners has the ability to recognize value more quickly than many of its competitors, based on its industry knowledge and principal investing experience. It is a private equity firm that specializes in the business services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications industries. Nautic Partners, the independent successor to Fleet Equity Partners, has grown capital under management from $20 million to approximately $1.8 billion since its inception in 1986. Nautic commits $25 to $75 million to investments in a variety of growth, consolidation, recapitalization and buyout transactions, and the firm assumes both majority and minority positions in its portfolio companies. Nautic Partners maintains the flexibility to allocate additional assets to the sectors that are providing the most return potential. It also provides valuable contributions as members of its portfolio companies board of directors. Nautic is headquartered in Providence, R.I.