Blue Sky Network
The Deal
- Bought By
- Kambiz Aghili and Gregoire Demory
- Year
- 2016
- Vehicle
- Kerwood Capital Partners, backed by Endurance Search Partners, Search Fund Partners, Aspect Investors, WSC & Company, The Cambria Group and Applied Equity
- Kind
- Software
A maker of satellite-based tracking, communication and fleet management systems for aircraft, vessels and vehicles.
What Happened Next
Sold to ACR Group, whose release of May 9, 2022 announced the acquisition, the year the index host dates its own exit. One backer names one searcher as former chief executive and the other as president beside the fund.
The searchers held it 6 years, from 2016 to 2022.
Bought at exit by ACR Group, whose page carries that firm's own announcement of it.
Backed by the Same Firms
- Wu Consulting · Steven Tan · 2025
- FluidSecure · Arnab Chatterjee, Ian Field and Jordan Freeman · 2025
- Upper Hand · Brad Wills and Brad Greene · 2025
- Premier World Discovery · Rafa Caldas and Zach Krumholz · 2025
- The rest of what Endurance Search Partners has backed
- RouteGenie · Cameron Craig · 2025
- Strategic Kids · Graham Brockington and Andy Morrow · 2025
- CyberData Pros · Keith Burns · 2025
- Desert Services · Tim Haitaian · 2024
- The rest of what Search Fund Partners has backed
Aspect Investors
- Thillens · Resit Melik · 2025
- Choice Water Solutions · Alisdair Ferguson and Chase Epstein · 2024
- Parsec Group · Graeme Hewett and Nadim Muzayyin · 2024
- Spivey Services · Wade Chipps · 2023
- The rest of the record
- O&W Heat Treat · Ali Platon and Chris Goyen · 2025
- Maher Services · Daniel Chase and Laurent Firlotte · 2025
- Resolute Property Tax Solutions · Ed Buser, Federico Marchese and James Serena · 2025
- Team Management Systems · Siri Chakka and Silva Gentchev · 2025
- The rest of what WSC & Company has backed
The Cambria Group
- Three Rivers Therapy · Ryan Moore · 2025
- Windmill Wellness Ranch · Ani Narasimhan · 2024
- Discover Health · Daniel Hudspeth · 2018
- ProPoint Solutions · Raj Mahajan · 2015
- The rest of the record
Applied Equity
- Voke · Rene Almeida and João Lima · 2019
- Navegate · Nathan Dey · 2018
- Attainia · Mike Rozenfeld · 2016
- Arizona College of Nursing · Nick Mansour · 2010
- The rest of the record
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.
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's partners page, which names the searcher beside the company and the fund. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's investments list, which carries the company and its own year. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- Aspect Investors' own account aspectinvestors.com
- WSC & Company's own account wscandcompany.com
- The Cambria Group's own account cambriagroup.com
- Applied Equity's own account, The backer's October 17, 2016 release, which announces the acquisition with both searchers named beside their vehicle. applied-equity.com
- Applied Equity's own account, The backer's exits category, which files the company as a position the backer has sold out of. applied-equity.com
- The acquirer's announcement naltec.com