Altamont Capital Partners Acquires Service Minds

ACP CreativIT Acquires Mindsight

January 7, 2025

IT Services

ACP CreativIT has acquired Mindsight, a Downers Grove, Illinois-based IT consulting firm known for Cisco expertise, cloud services, cybersecurity, and managed services. The deal expands ACP CreativIT’s Midwest footprint and technical capabilities by adding Mindsight’s team of over 50 professionals and strengthening managed services, cloud and security offerings for mid-market clients.

Amulet Capital Partners Invests in minds + assembly

May 4, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

Amulet Capital Partners has made a significant growth investment in minds + assembly, a New York–based full-service, design-centric healthcare commercialization and creative agency. The investment will support m+a's expansion of analytics and media capabilities and provide resources to scale while the company's founders remain significant shareholders; financing was provided by Audax Private Debt.

Contour Ridge Invests in TrendyMinds

March 2, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

San Antonio-based private equity firm Contour Ridge made an eight-figure growth investment in Indianapolis-based digital marketing agency TrendyMinds. The capital will be used to accelerate hiring (targeting 600+ new roles over 3–5 years), expand capabilities, open regional offices, and pursue add-on acquisitions.

Growth Catalyst Partners Acquires InspiredMinds!

November 20, 2024

Consulting

Growth Catalyst Partners, a U.S. middle-market private equity firm, has acquired U.K.-based InspiredMinds!, a global AI strategy group and events community. Growth Catalyst will integrate InspiredMinds! into its Data Society Group platform while the business continues to operate independently and plans to launch its festival-style AI summits in the United States in 2025.

Renovus Capital Partners Recapitalizes ClinicalMind, LLC

November 25, 2019

Healthcare Services

Renovus Capital Partners has recapitalized ClinicalMind, LLC to support expansion of the medical communications agency and growth of its enGauge SaaS technology. The equity financing will fund expansion of ClinicalMind’s strategic and tactical agency services and its physician-engagement and medical affairs SaaS platform; Excel Partners advised the sell-side while DLA Piper and BrownRudnick served as legal counsel.

Starfish Partners Acquires HireMinds

July 17, 2025

Staffing & HR

Starfish Partners, an investment and ownership platform for specialized executive search firms, has acquired HireMinds, a Boston-based executive search firm founded in 1998 with expertise in marketing, communications, life sciences, and finance & accounting recruitment. The acquisition brings HireMinds into the Starfish Partners family to expand capabilities, geographic reach, and resources across high-growth sectors.