Spire Capital Partners Completes Controlling Investment in PenLink
April 5, 2022
Spire Capital Partners completed a controlling platform investment in PenLink, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based provider of communications surveillance and investigative software for federal, state and local law enforcement. Spire will partner with PenLink's management to accelerate growth, expand product capabilities and further penetrate the U.S. government marketplace; Madison Capital Funding provided senior debt financing.
- Buyers
- Spire Capital Partners
- Targets
- PenLink, Inc.
- Industry
- Cybersecurity
- Location
- Nebraska, United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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