Graham Partners Acquires Taoglas Group Holdings Ltd.

Graham Partners Invests in BrightSign

September 10, 2024

Manufacturing

Graham Partners has made a strategic investment in BrightSign, a provider of purpose-built digital signage media players, cloud-based networking solutions, and systems software. Harvey & Company served as buy‑side advisor and co‑investor alongside BrightSign’s founders to support the company’s growth in key end markets including retail, healthcare and education.

Graham Partners Acquires E Tech Group

April 11, 2024

Industrial Services

Graham Partners, a private investment firm focused on advanced manufacturing, has acquired E Tech Group, an industrial automation systems integrator headquartered in West Chester, Ohio, from Falfurrias Capital Partners. Graham intends to support E Tech's growth, expand its service capabilities and pursue additional targeted add-on acquisitions across attractive end markets including life sciences, data centers and consumer packaged goods/food & beverage.

OptConnect (Graham Partners) Acquires M2M DataGlobal

February 6, 2024

Telecommunications

OptConnect, a Graham Partners portfolio company, has completed an add-on acquisition of Chile-headquartered M2M DataGlobal. The deal expands OptConnect's managed wireless IoT connectivity platform into Latin America, adding managed connectivity, hardware, and telematics capabilities across multiple countries in the region.

Graham Partners Invests in BrightSign, LLC

October 15, 2021

Manufacturing

Graham Partners, a private investment firm focused on technology-driven advanced manufacturing, has made a growth investment in BrightSign, LLC, a Los Gatos-based leader in digital signage media players and cloud networking solutions. BrightSign's founders will remain significant investors as the firm looks to leverage Graham Partners' resources to expand into high-growth end markets and deepen technology partnerships.

Taoglas Acquires Smartsensor Technologies

July 2, 2021

IT Services

Taoglas has acquired Smartsensor Technologies to strengthen its Connected Smart Services business unit and expand its IoT managed-services capabilities. The acquisition brings Smartsensor's end-to-end hardware, software and analytics solutions — including smart waste management deployments across Australia, Canada and New Zealand — into Taoglas' global IoT offering.

TA Associates Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Gong cha Group

August 26, 2019

Food & Beverage

TA Associates completed a strategic growth investment in Gong cha Group, the global Taiwanese bubble/milk tea franchisor founded in 2006. Partners Group provided supporting debt and equity financing alongside investments from Gong cha regional founders and management; proceeds will support global expansion and franchise operations.