MeetingPlay and Aventri Merge with Growth Investment from Sunstone Partners and Camden Partners

Sunstone Partners Invests $75M Growth Equity in MeetingPlay

June 17, 2021

Software

Sunstone Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm, made a $75 million growth equity investment in MeetingPlay to fund product development, expand delivery capabilities and enhance go-to-market efforts. MeetingPlay, an event technology software company based in Frederick, Maryland, provides virtual, hybrid and in-person event platforms used by large enterprises and hospitality customers.

MeetingPlay + Aventri (MPAV) Acquires eventcore

June 9, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

MeetingPlay + Aventri (MPAV) has acquired eventcore, a Seattle-based event registration technology platform, to strengthen MPAV's end-to-end event management offering. The deal integrates eventcore's bespoke registration capabilities into MPAV's live, hybrid, and virtual event platform to better serve complex, enterprise-level events and trade shows.

Sunstone Partners Acquires Evergreen Systems, Cerna Solutions and Novo/Scale to Create Largest ServiceNow Pure-Play Partner

January 26, 2021

IT Services

Sunstone Partners completed acquisitions of Evergreen Systems, Cerna Solutions and Novo/Scale and combined them into a single, independent ServiceNow-focused consulting business to expand capabilities and accelerate growth across ServiceNow workflows. The combination brings together expertise in ITSM, ITOM, security/GRC, managed services and integrations to better serve enterprise customers across financial services, government, healthcare and other verticals.

Cvent Acquires Goldcast

December 15, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Cvent has acquired Goldcast, an AI-powered B2B video content and webinar platform, to integrate Goldcast's automated video-clipping and content-repurposing capabilities into Cvent's event marketing and management platform. The deal will allow Cvent customers to instantly convert event moments into on-brand video content and extend the lifecycle and revenue impact of webinars and events.

Sunwave Health and Lightning Step Merge; BVP Forge Provides Strategic Growth Investment

October 27, 2025

Software

Sunwave Health and Lightning Step Technologies have combined to form a unified technology platform serving behavioral health providers nationwide. The merger is supported by a strategic growth investment from BVP Forge, with existing investors Level Equity, Blueprint Equity, and Gallant Capital Partners re‑investing in the combined company to accelerate product innovation, AI capabilities, and go‑to‑market scale.

66degrees and Pandera Systems Merge with Growth Investment from Sunstone Partners

October 25, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Cloud professional services firms 66degrees and Pandera Systems have merged and received additional growth equity from Sunstone Partners to create the second-largest pure-play Google Cloud services firm in North America. The combined business expands 66degrees' data & analytics, cloud migration, security and application modernization capabilities and will have roughly 500 employees across offices in Denver, Chicago, Orlando and India.