Best Life Brands (The Riverside Company) Acquires Blue Moon Estate Sales

Best Life Brands (The Riverside Company) Acquires PROHealth Home Care Services

March 30, 2021

Healthcare Services

The Riverside Company has made an add-on investment through its portfolio company Best Life Brands, acquiring PROHealth Home Care Services, a Greater Los Angeles home health provider founded by registered nurses. The deal expands Best Life Brands' continuum of senior care, marks the company's entry into home health franchising, and the acquired business will be rebranded with franchising planned immediately.

Best Life Brands Acquires Next Day Access

March 25, 2024

Healthcare Services

Best Life Brands, a franchised senior care platform backed by The Riverside Company, has acquired Next Day Access, a provider of residential and commercial accessibility and mobility solutions. The acquisition adds a new service vertical—wheelchair ramps, stairlifts, grab bars and bathroom modifications—to Best Life Brands' portfolio and positions the combined business to better serve aging adults across the United States and Canada.

EverSmith Brands (Riverside) Acquires U.S. Lawns from BrightView

February 1, 2024

Environmental Services

EverSmith Brands, a franchised-services platform owned by The Riverside Company, acquired U.S. Lawns from BrightView Holdings as an add-on to the EverSmith portfolio. The acquisition adds a national commercial landscaping and snow-management franchise network headquartered in Orlando, Florida, to EverSmith's commercial facilities brands to accelerate growth and leverage synergies with existing platform assets like Clintar.

Apollo Interactive Acquires Majority Stake in Blue Fire Leads

March 21, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

Apollo Interactive has made a majority, controlled investment in Blue Fire Leads to expand into the home services vertical; proceeds for the acquisition came from the Riverside Strategic Capital Fund and financial terms were not disclosed. Blue Fire Leads, founded in 2013, is a lead-generation marketing publisher serving home services contractors and has nearly 50 employees across the United States.

The Riverside Company Acquires The Lash Lounge for Head to Toe Brands Platform

March 19, 2024

Retail

The Riverside Company (via its Riverside Micro-Cap Fund) has acquired The Lash Lounge, a leading eyelash salon franchise, from Franworth. The deal adds The Lash Lounge — with more than 129 locations nationwide — as the third brand in Riverside's Head to Toe Brands platform to accelerate growth and geographic expansion in beauty and personal care services.

Evive Brands (backed by The Riverside Company) Acquires Maid Brigade

June 23, 2025

Professional Services

Evive Brands, a franchise platform backed by The Riverside Company, has acquired Maid Brigade, a residential and commercial cleaning franchisor headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The add-on strengthens Evive’s home-services portfolio—now approaching 1,000 franchise territories across its brands—and Maid Brigade will continue operating under its existing leadership while gaining shared technology, training and marketing resources.