Charles Thayne Capital Acquires World Archives

Wonderbly Acquires Historic Newspapers

October 1, 2023

E-Commerce

Graphite Capital portfolio company Wonderbly has acquired Historic Newspapers, the global market leader in personalised newspaper-based gifting. The deal expands Wonderbly's product offering into adult gifting and integrates Historic Newspapers' archive content to accelerate growth beyond children's personalised books.

Charles Thayne Capital Acquires Lucidpress

May 27, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Charles Thayne Capital, a growth-oriented private investment firm, has acquired Lucidpress, a cloud-based brand templating and design platform. The investment is intended to support Lucidpress' growth and product development as the company operates as an independent business led by CEO Owen Fuller.

Better World Libraries Acquires Better World Books

December 2, 2019

E-Commerce

Better World Libraries, a long-time partner of the Internet Archive, has acquired Better World Books, a mission-driven for-profit online bookseller. The organizations said Better World Books' offices, leadership, and operations will remain in place and selected deaccessioned titles will be routed into the Internet Archive's book-digitization program; terms were not disclosed.

Leeds Equity Partners Makes Strategic Investment in Archive360

September 16, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Leeds Equity Partners has made a strategic growth investment in Archive360, the cloud-native enterprise information archiving platform, to accelerate product innovation and global expansion. Terms were not disclosed; the capital will support Archive360’s continued growth across regulatory, security, compliance and business-intelligence use cases.

Blackstone Acquires Ancestry for $4.7 Billion

August 5, 2020

Media & Entertainment

Blackstone's private equity funds have entered a definitive agreement to acquire Ancestry from Silver Lake, GIC, Spectrum Equity, Permira and other equity holders for an enterprise value of $4.7 billion; GIC will retain a significant minority stake. Blackstone said it will partner with Ancestry's management to invest in data, product development and global expansion of the company's family history and consumer genomics platform, which has more than 3 million paying subscribers and roughly $1 billion in annual revenue.

U.S. News & World Report Acquires TeenLife

August 14, 2024

Education

U.S. News & World Report has acquired TeenLife, an online discovery platform for experiential learning opportunities for students in grades 7–12. TeenLife will join U.S. News's CollegeAdvisor division to expand student-facing resources and integrate TeenLife's directory, guides and virtual events with CollegeAdvisor's admissions support offerings.