Bridge (formerly The Kotter Group)
The Deal
- Bought By
- Winston Smith
- Year
- 2021
- Vehicle
- Backed by Search Fund Partners, Futaleufu Partners and Endurance Search Partners
- Kind
- Software
A software company selling a communication and sales automation platform to insurance agencies, bought under the name The Kotter Group and renamed Bridge since.
What Happened Next
Operating under its searcher-CEO; three backers carry it as active.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
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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 rather than inferred.
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- Futaleufu Partners' own account futaleufu-partners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account endurancesearchpartners.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 names Winston Smith as chief executive beside an investment in November 2021 and gives the old name in brackets; a second backer says he is the chief executive of Bridge and a third lists the Kotter Group against 2021. Nobody writes that he bought it.