Luminate Capital Partners Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Quantivate

Luminate Capital Partners Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Axonify

April 20, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on enterprise software, announced a strategic growth investment in Axonify, a Waterloo-based leader in frontline employee training SaaS. The capital will be used to accelerate product innovation and other growth initiatives while Axonify continues to be led by CEO and co-founder Carol Leaman; Luminate partners will join the company’s board.

Vertu Capital Makes Strategic Growth Investment in LumiQ Inc.

September 24, 2024

Education

Vertu Capital has made a strategic growth investment in LumiQ Inc., a Toronto-based corporate education platform that delivers accredited professional development content to accounting and finance professionals. The investment is intended to support LumiQ's domestic and international expansion and accelerate product and customer growth.

Ncontracts (Gryphon Investors Portfolio Company) Acquires Quantivate

December 12, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Ncontracts, a Gryphon Investors–backed provider of risk, vendor and compliance SaaS, has acquired Quantivate, a governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software provider for banks and credit unions. The add-on expands Ncontracts' SaaS and knowledge-as-a-service offerings, increasing the combined company to roughly 350 employees and a customer base of more than 4,000 financial institutions.

Luminate Capital Partners Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Thought Industries

September 5, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, made a strategic growth investment in Thought Industries to support the SaaS company's continued product development and market expansion. The investment will help Thought Industries enhance its customer learning platform and scale customer support and go-to-market activities; financial terms were not disclosed.

Luminate Capital Partners Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Suralink

June 1, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners has made a strategic growth investment in Suralink, a Salt Lake City–based SaaS provider of request list and workflow management software for accounting and professional services firms. Terms were not disclosed; existing investor Growth Street Partners will remain involved as Suralink scales its platform and expands market penetration.

Luminate Capital Partners Invests in MSI Data

September 11, 2019

Cloud & SaaS

Luminate Capital Partners made a strategic growth investment in MSI Data to support product development, scale the team, and accelerate go-to-market efforts for MSI’s field service management SaaS platform. Financial terms were not disclosed; Luminate partners joined MSI’s board and advisors to the transaction included GrowthPoint Technology Partners (financial advisor to MSI) and Kirkland & Ellis (legal advisor to Luminate).