Alert Protective Services
The Deal
- Bought By
- David Silberstein
- Year
- Not published by any primary source
- Two backers carry the company from 2016, each its own date, and neither of his biographies dates the purchase. No Form D names him, the vehicle or the company.
- Vehicle
- Anchor Light Partners, backed by Search Fund Partners and Relay Investments
- Kind
- Physical operations
A Chicago-area installer and monitor of residential and commercial alarm, fire and camera systems, founded in 1982, which bought a smaller local alarm company's assets under him.
What Happened Next
He ran it until joining a private equity firm in 2018; one backer files its exit in 2024 and names no buyer.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
Backed by the Same Firms
- RouteGenie · Cameron Craig · 2025
- Strategic Kids · Graham Brockington and Andy Morrow · 2025
- Wu Consulting · Steven Tan · 2025
- CyberData Pros · Keith Burns · 2025
- The rest of what Search Fund Partners has backed
- Park Dietz & Associates · Jineet Gandhi · 2026
- Vialterna · Federico Mariscal and Enrique Valdés · 2026
- IMASP · José María Jover and Ignacio Jarava · 2026
- Zeker & Mobiel · Berend Westerveld and Alex Gready · 2025
- The rest of what Relay Investments has backed
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 rather than inferred.
- The searchers' own account lionsharepartners.com
- The searchers' own account potomacequitypartners.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- Relay Investments' own account relayinvestments.com
- A third party's record of the deal securitysystemsnews.com