Stride Consumer Partners Invests in Truewerk

Stride Consumer Partners Makes Minority Investment in Patrick Ta Beauty

October 25, 2022

Consumer Products

Stride Consumer Partners, a Boston-based growth-equity firm, made a minority investment in Patrick Ta Beauty to support the luxury cosmetics brand's next phase of growth. The funding will be used to drive brand awareness, expand the product portfolio and distribution at Sephora in the U.S., and build out the team.

Integrum Makes Strategic Growth Investment in True

November 18, 2025

Staffing & HR

Integrum, a private investment firm, made a significant strategic investment in True, the Philadelphia-based executive talent management platform, to fund True's next phase of growth. As part of the partnership Integrum is adding senior leaders to True’s board to support expansion of its technology-led talent, advisory, and search offerings.

Stride Consumer Partners Takes Minority Stake in Odele

November 16, 2023

Consumer Products

Minneapolis-based clean hair care brand Odele has received a minority growth investment from Stride Consumer Partners to fund marketing, talent and product innovation. The founders remain majority shareholders as Odele continues rapid retail and DTC expansion (available at Target, CVS and Ulta) following strong year-over-year growth.

Prepaid Technologies Acquires WorkStride from The Riverside Company

July 12, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Prepaid Technologies, a payments technology provider based in Alabama, has acquired WorkStride, an enterprise rewards and incentives SaaS platform, from The Riverside Company. The deal expands Prepaid Technologies' payments and customer/employee engagement capabilities by integrating WorkStride's rewards, wallet and channel incentive technology into its platform.

True Acquires Jopwell

April 27, 2023

Staffing & HR

True, a global talent management platform, has acquired Jopwell, a career advancement and diversity hiring platform serving Black, Latinx and Native American students and early-to-mid-career professionals. Jopwell will operate as a business unit within the True platform under co-founders Ryan Williams and Porter Braswell, bringing Jopwell's ~130,000 community members into True's suite of talent products to expand True's diversity, equity and inclusion capabilities.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe Acquires TrueCommerce from Accel-KKR

November 11, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in TrueCommerce, a global provider of trading partner connectivity and integration solutions, from Accel-KKR. WCAS will partner with TrueCommerce management to drive organic growth and pursue a focused acquisition strategy to expand capabilities and enter new customer segments and geographies; Accel-KKR will retain a minority stake post-close.