Advanced Aircrew Academy
The Deal
- Bought By
- Jordan Huibers and Alvin Wong
- Year
- 2024
- Vehicle
- Harbour Grove, backed by Futaleufu Partners, WSC & Company, Trilogy Search Partners, Endurance Search Partners, Search Fund Partners, Pacific Lake Partners and M2O
- Kind
- Software
A Charleston, South Carolina training business selling web-delivered modules for professional pilots, drone pilots, flight and cabin attendants, coordinators, maintenance and line service, so a flight department can meet its training requirements without gathering anybody in a room.
What Happened Next
Operating under its searchers, with three backers carrying it and none dating the purchase. Their own testimonial on the third backer's site credits it with partnering through the search and staying on as board members.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
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M2O
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Method & Source
This record is double-sourced: it joined when the purchase and, where the company has traded on, the exit could both be read in primary accounts.
- Futaleufu Partners' own account futaleufu-partners.com
- WSC & Company's own account wscandcompany.com
- The company's own account aircrewacademy.com
- Trilogy Search Partners' own account trilogy-search.com
- The searchers' own account trilogy-search.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's investments list, which carries the company and its own year. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's partners page naming Alvin Wong. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's partners page naming Jordan Huibers. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- Pacific Lake Partners' own account, The index host's company page, which names both beside its 2024 investment. pacificlake.com
- Pacific Lake Partners' own account, The index host's announcement, which calls the pair's arrival a strategic investment rather than a purchase. pacificlake.com
- M2O's own account m2oinc.com
- A third party's record of the deal searchfundsnews.com
These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. One backer's modals say Jordan is co-chief executive of Advanced Aircrew Academy and Alvin is co-chief executive of Advanced Aircrew Academy. The other's grid lists the company and its town and names nobody. The company's own site names no officer. Nothing says either man bought it. The index host's card, lists the company against its own 2024 investment and names nobody. The index host's company page, names both as co-chief executives beside its own 2024 investment. Its roster files the search as partner with a launch year of 2022. Nothing on it says who bought the company.