Private Equity Firm Business Services

Cohere Capital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cohere Capital is a growth-focused private equity firm that invests in leading middle-market businesses. The firm supports growth plans and sustainable, long-term value creation in partnership with entrepreneurs and management teams.

Focus Areas
Growth-focused middle-market private equity, Technology-enabled services investments, Sustainable growth plan support

Tracked deals

7

7 tracked deals across 2020-2023.

Recent pace

0

0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Growth capital

6 growth capital · 1 divestiture

Cohere Capital Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 4 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 4 years for Cohere Capital. 2 2020 3 2021 1 2022 1 2023

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital, Graycliff Partners LP, Brookside Capital Partners
    Target
    Phaedon
    Seller
    ICF Next, ICF International (ICFI)

    Cohere Capital has acquired Phaedon, the former U.S. Commercial Engagement division of ICF Next/ICF International, creating a standalone, technology-enabled digital engagement and loyalty business. Graycliff Partners provided a unitranche debt financing and equity co-investment to support the deal, with Brookside Capital Partners investing alongside Graycliff.

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital, H.I.G. Growth Partners
    Target
    Boostability

    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.

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital
    Target
    iPromote

    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.

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital
    Target
    Promevo
    Industry
    IT Services

    Boston-based private equity firm Cohere Capital has made a strategic growth investment in Promevo, a Burlington, Kentucky-based provider of Google Workspace, Chrome, and Google Cloud Platform services and software (including its gPanel management product). The capital will support Promevo’s expansion of service offerings and further development of software and solutions for customers operating on the Google technology ecosystem.

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital
    Target
    CCS
    Industry
    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.

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital
    Target
    Sonobi
    Seller
    Safeguard Scientifics

    Boston-based private equity firm Cohere Capital completed a strategic growth investment in Sonobi, a Winter Park, Florida-based digital media technology platform. The capital will fund product and engineering growth, support Sonobi's JetStream platform development for a cookie-less future, and enable add-on acquisitions across data, martech, and ad tech; prior securityholder Safeguard Scientifics exited in the transaction.

  • Buyer
    Cohere Capital
    Target
    ClearScale
    Industry
    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.

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