Cohere Capital Makes Growth Investment in Sonobi

Cohere Capital Makes Strategic Growth Investment in iPromote

July 20, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Cohere Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm, made a strategic growth investment in iPromote, an omni-channel digital advertising platform based in San Luis Obispo, California. The capital will support product enhancements and deeper penetration of the underserved SMB digital advertising market through additional channel and agency partnerships.

Cohere Capital Makes Strategic Growth Investment in Boostability

February 23, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

Cohere Capital completed a strategic growth investment in Boostability, partnering with the company’s management and existing investor H.I.G. Growth Partners to accelerate product development and scale the business. Headquartered in Lehi, Utah, Boostability provides SEO-focused digital marketing technology and services to SMBs and will leverage the new partnership to expand its technology platform and customer reach.

Cohere Capital Makes Growth Investment in ClearScale

January 7, 2020

IT Services

Boston-based private equity firm Cohere Capital has completed a strategic growth investment in ClearScale, a San Francisco–based cloud-native systems integrator and application development firm. The investment will fund ClearScale's expansion of managed services, sales, marketing and service delivery capabilities, and growth of its data analytics and machine learning practices across additional U.S. locations.

Sonobi Acquires Amply to Strengthen First‑Party Data and Programmatic Capabilities

October 25, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Sonobi, an adtech marketplace and portfolio company of Cohere Capital, has acquired Amply, a Kansas City–based push-notification and first‑party data platform with a network of over 110 million subscribers. The deal brings Amply’s consumer‑direct push technology, audience data and content‑recommendation capabilities into Sonobi’s programmatic marketplace to improve identity resolution and publisher monetization.

Cohere Capital Makes Strategic Growth Investment in CCS

January 20, 2021

E-Commerce

Boston-based private equity firm Cohere Capital completed a strategic growth investment in Portland-based CCS, a direct-to-consumer e-commerce retailer and streetwear/skateboarding brand. The capital will be used to strengthen CCS's technology-enabled product and service offerings and accelerate the company’s e-commerce growth and brand momentum.

Accel-KKR Leads Growth Investment in Masabi

March 3, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Accel-KKR has made a strategic growth investment in Masabi to accelerate product development and expand deployments of its Justride Fare Payments-as-a-Service platform globally. Existing investors Shell and Smedvig Capital also participated in the round to support Masabi's continued geographic expansion and platform innovation.