Ascend Software
The Deal
- Bought By
- Robert Southern
- Year
- 2018
- Vehicle
- Backed by Pacific Lake Partners, Trilogy Search Partners and Red Forest Capital
- Kind
- Software
A Portland, Oregon software company whose product automates accounts payable and plugs into the enterprise resource planning systems its customers already run.
What Happened Next
The index host names him chief executive beside its 2018 investment and still carries the company as active; the second backer marks its own investment realized. Neither names a buyer.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
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Red Forest Capital
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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.
- Pacific Lake Partners' own account pacificlake.com
- Trilogy Search Partners' own account trilogy-search.com
- Red Forest Capital's own account redforestcapital.com
- A third party's record of the deal tlaopodcast.com
These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. The index host names him as chief executive beside its 2018 investment and still calls the company active; the second backer lists the company and marks its own investment realized. Nothing says he bought it.