Charles Thayne Capital Acquires Lucidpress

Cyderes Acquires Lucidum

December 16, 2025

Cybersecurity

Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity services provider, has acquired Lucidum, a security data fabric and entity intelligence platform. The acquisition brings identity-aware data fabric capabilities into Cyderes’ portfolio to strengthen IAM, exposure management, and MDR offerings and accelerate AI-driven remediation and SaaS offerings.

Charles Thayne Capital Acquires World Archives

October 1, 2020

Media & Entertainment

Charles Thayne Capital, a growth-oriented private investment firm, has acquired World Archives, the operator of NewspaperArchive.com. The firm is partnering with former Ancestry.com executives Kendall Hulet (CEO) and Brandon Camp (CMO) to accelerate product and subscriber growth for the historical newspaper and genealogy platform.

Luminate Capital Partners Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Thought Industries

September 5, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, made a strategic growth investment in Thought Industries to support the SaaS company's continued product development and market expansion. The investment will help Thought Industries enhance its customer learning platform and scale customer support and go-to-market activities; financial terms were not disclosed.

Align Capital Partners Acquires Counsel Press from Gladstone Investment Corporation

October 24, 2023

Legal Services

Align Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired Counsel Press, Inc., a New York–headquartered, tech-enabled legal process outsourcing provider focused on appellate and litigation support services, from Gladstone Investment Corporation. ACP intends to partner with management to accelerate growth, build a diversified legal services platform and pursue add-on M&A to expand Counsel Press's offerings to law firms and corporate legal departments.

Charles Thayne Capital and Shaun Ritchie Acquire nClouds

May 11, 2022

IT Services

Charles Thayne Capital, alongside CEO partner Shaun Ritchie, has acquired nClouds, a managed cloud services provider focused on AWS-based DevOps, cloud migration, and SRE. The investment will support nClouds’ next phase of growth under Ritchie’s leadership and expand the firm’s cloud operations and managed services capabilities.

ICG Acquires Lucid Group from LDC

March 10, 2021

Healthcare Services

Alternative asset manager ICG has acquired London-headquartered healthcare communications specialist Lucid Group from mid-market private equity firm LDC. Lucid, which employs around 250 staff and provides medical education, strategic consultancy and digital services to pharmaceutical clients, was backed by LDC since 2017 and grew revenues from about £12m to over £29m during the partnership.