Bow River Capital and Norwest Venture Partners Recapitalize AbsenceSoft

Luminate Capital Partners Acquires AbsenceSoft from Norwest Venture Partners and Bow River Capital

September 18, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners has acquired AbsenceSoft, a Golden, Colorado–based SaaS provider of leave and accommodations management, from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Bow River Capital. The investment will support AbsenceSoft's continued growth, product innovation, and expansion of its market-leading absence and accommodation lifecycle platform.

Bow River Capital Makes Majority Recapitalization Investment in HRSoft

September 13, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity team has made a majority-controlled recapitalization investment in HRSoft to accelerate the build-out of its full HCM application suite, scale operational infrastructure, and support profitable growth. As part of the transaction, Bow River fund managers John Raeder, Maitlan Cramer, and Sean O'Connell joined HRSoft's board; CIBC Innovation Banking provided debt financing and JMP Securities served as exclusive financial advisor to HRSoft.

Bow River Capital Majority Recapitalizes Altvia

July 14, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Altvia, a SaaS provider of CRM and investor & deal management systems for private capital firms, completed a majority recapitalization with Bow River Capital's 2019 Software Growth Equity Fund. The transaction will keep Altvia's management team in place and provide capital and operating expertise to accelerate product innovation and scale the business.

Bow River Capital Majority Recapitalizes ProductPlan

May 11, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity team has made a majority recapitalization investment in ProductPlan, a cloud-based product management SaaS provider. The partnership will fund accelerated product innovation, build-out of ProductPlan's application suite, and scaling of go-to-market and operational infrastructure; Bow River fund managers Maitlan Cramer and John Raeder will join ProductPlan's board.

Bow River Capital Completes Majority Investment in CloudShare

April 14, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Bow River Capital’s Software Growth Equity team has completed a majority platform investment in CloudShare, a San Francisco–based SaaS provider of AI-guided virtual labs and technical training solutions. The investment will support CloudShare’s global growth, infrastructure scaling, and accelerated AI-driven product innovation while founder Dr. Zvi Guterman remains CEO and joins a newly formed board with Bow River representatives.

Bow River Capital and RippleWorx Complete Majority Recapitalization of meQuilibrium

September 11, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Bow River Capital's Software Growth Equity Team has completed a majority recapitalization of meQuilibrium, merging the company with RippleWorx to create a market-leading human capital management firm focused on workforce mental health and performance. The combined business will be dual‑headquartered in Denver and Boston, with meQuilibrium founder Jan Bruce leading and RippleWorx CEO Steve Foster serving as Chairman and Head of Revenue Growth.