Greenwood Acquires The Gathering Spot

Greenwood, Inc. Acquires Valence

June 22, 2022

Staffing & HR

Greenwood, the digital banking and community platform for Black and Latino individuals, has acquired Valence, a career networking and recruiting platform for Black professionals. The acquisition integrates Valence’s Pipeline recruiting database and BONDS professional development program into Greenwood’s member services to expand career opportunities and recruiting access for nearly one million community members.

Greenwood Acquires Kinly Mobile Banking Platform

May 2, 2023

Payments & Fintech

Greenwood, the Atlanta-based digital banking platform for Black and Latino individuals and businesses, announced the acquisition of Kinly, a digitally native neobank focused on building generational wealth for Black America. The deal brings Kinly's ~300,000-member community into Greenwood's ecosystem, expanding Greenwood's customer base and product capabilities to better serve Black and Latino consumers and small businesses.

ChartHop Acquires Gather

March 30, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

ChartHop, the People Analytics Platform, has acquired Gather, a Slack-focused people operations workflow builder, to deepen its employee experience and automated workflow capabilities. The acquisition expands ChartHop’s ability to combine people analytics with automated HR workflows to improve onboarding, milestones and other parts of the employee lifecycle.

Harvest Partners Acquires Lazer Spot from Greenbriar Equity Group

December 9, 2019

Transportation

Funds managed by Harvest Partners have completed the acquisition of Lazer Spot, Inc. from Greenbriar Equity Group. Lazer Spot, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, is a national leader in outsourced yard management services (trailer spotting and shuttling) operating at 400+ sites across the United States and Canada; management will remain significant owners and Harvest will support organic growth and an accelerated acquisition strategy.

Goldman Sachs Acquires GreenSky

March 29, 2022

Payments & Fintech

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. completed an all-stock acquisition of GreenSky, Inc., a cloud-native fintech platform for point-of-sale home improvement lending. The deal, valued at approximately $2.24 billion, integrates GreenSky’s merchant and consumer financing capabilities into Goldman’s Marcus consumer banking platform to expand its embedded lending and payments capabilities.

Group Black Acquires Galore Media Inc.

April 17, 2024

Media & Entertainment

Group Black, an MBE-certified media company, has acquired Galore Media Inc., a social-first culture and lifestyle media brand focused on fashion, beauty and Gen Z/Latinx creators. The acquisition brings Galore's content production and audience (reported ~15 million monthly reach) into Group Black's portfolio to expand capabilities, scale event production and deepen connections between brands and multicultural audiences.