KKR Acquires Majority Interest in Therapy Brands

Therapy Brands Acquires The Echo Group (EchoVantage)

November 28, 2022

Healthcare Services

Therapy Brands, a Birmingham, Alabama-based healthcare IT company, has acquired New Hampshire-based The Echo Group, the creator of the EchoVantage visual EHR for behavioral health. The deal expands Therapy Brands’ behavioral-health EHR and practice-management capabilities to better serve community behavioral health agencies and enterprise customers.

Rethink First Acquires Total Therapy

January 18, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Rethink First, backed by K1 Investment Management, has acquired Total Therapy (formerly Total ABA), a Salesforce-based practice management and billing software provider for ABA, speech, occupational, and physical therapy providers. The add-on expands Rethink’s behavioral health software capabilities and enables cross-selling to multi-disciplinary therapy providers across the developmental-disability care market.

K1 Invests in Rethink; Rethink Acquires Telehealth Platform TheraWe

August 11, 2020

Healthcare Services

K1 Investment Management made a strategic growth investment in Rethink First to accelerate the company's expansion of cloud-based behavioral health, education, and employer-facing solutions. Concurrently, Rethink completed the acquisition of TheraWe, a telehealth and parent engagement platform focused on ABA pediatric care, to strengthen its telehealth capabilities.

PresenceLearning Acquires Global Teletherapy; Majority Stake Acquired by Spectrum Equity and TPG's The Rise Fund

December 9, 2021

Education

PresenceLearning acquired Global Teletherapy to expand its teletherapy services for K-12 virtual schools while simultaneously securing a majority growth equity investment from Spectrum Equity and TPG's The Rise Fund. Bain Capital Double Impact and Catalyst Investors will retain minority stakes as PresenceLearning prepares to scale its software and teletherapy platform nationwide.

KKR Acquires Majority Stake in Burning Glass Technologies

September 11, 2019

Data & Analytics

KKR, via its Global Impact strategy, has acquired a majority stake in Burning Glass Technologies from Providence Strategic Growth. Burning Glass, a Boston-based labor market analytics and workforce data company, will continue to be led by its current management team as KKR supports the company's growth and impact-focused mission.

KKR Acquires Teaching Strategies from Summit Partners

July 21, 2021

Education

KKR has agreed to acquire Teaching Strategies, the leading provider of early childhood curriculum, assessment and family engagement tools, from growth investor Summit Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed; KKR will make the investment through its Core Investments strategy to expand its education-technology portfolio and support Teaching Strategies' platform and growth.