Growth Catalyst Partners-Backed Platform Acquires Data Society to Form Data Society Group

Growth Catalyst Partners Acquires The Data Lodge and CDO Magazine to Form Data Leadership Platform

October 16, 2023

Professional Services

Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP) launched a new data leadership platform by acquiring The Data Lodge and CDO Magazine to serve chief data officers and senior data, analytics, and AI leaders. The combined business will offer data literacy training, a peer leadership community, events and research to scale workforce development and thought leadership for CDOs globally.

Data Society Acquires Restless Creation

August 18, 2021

Education

Data Society, a Washington, D.C.-based provider of data science training and AI solutions, has acquired Restless Creation to expand its innovation training, skills-based assessment, and human-centered design strategy offerings. The acquisition integrates Restless Creation’s organizational change and design-thinking capabilities into Data Society’s training academies to accelerate upskilling and innovation for government, academic, and commercial clients.

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.

Growth Catalyst Partners (with Peter Goldstone) Acquires Controlling Stake in Government Executive Media Group

March 17, 2020

Media & Entertainment

Growth Catalyst Partners (GCP), partnering with industry veteran Peter Goldstone, acquired a controlling stake in Atlantic Media’s Government Executive Media Group (GEMG). GCP will provide growth capital to build a data-driven platform across GEMG’s editorial brands and support strategic investments, acquisitions, and partnerships while Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley remains a board member and investor.

Growth Acceleration Partners Acquires Mission Data

September 26, 2023

Software

Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP), an Austin-based technology services firm, has acquired Mission Data, a Louisville-headquartered digital product and custom software development firm. The acquisition expands GAP’s digital product, design and engineering capabilities and enables the combined company to deliver digital business transformation services to a broader set of enterprise and public-sector clients.

TCS Healthcare Technologies Acquires DataSmart Solutions with Follow‑On Investment from HCAP Partners

June 9, 2021

Healthcare Services

HCAP Partners made a follow-on investment in its portfolio company TCS Healthcare Technologies to support TCS’s acquisition of DataSmart Solutions, LLC. The add-on brings predictive risk analytics (built on the Johns Hopkins ACG system) into TCS’s ACUITYnxt population health SaaS platform to accelerate product roadmap and improve risk‑stratification capabilities for payers and other risk‑bearing organizations.