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The Deal
- Bought By
- Sheret Ross and Michael Levine
- Year
- 2021
- Vehicle
- Spruce Grove Capital, backed by Maven Equity Partners, The Cambria Group, Red Forest Capital and Applied Equity
- Kind
- Software
Software and services for companies that reimburse employees who drive their own cars for work, out of Toronto. Bought from an owner looking to retire, with both searchers taking day-to-day operating roles.
What Happened Next
Recapitalized in 2023, with the searchers staying on as minority owners, and a chief executive from outside the search took the seat in 2024.
They recapitalized 2 years in, in 2023, without handing over the company.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
Backed by the Same Firms
Vonzeo Capital
- Echosec Systems · Jeff Oldenburg · 2020
Aspect Investors
- Strategic Kids · Graham Brockington and Andy Morrow · 2025
- Thillens · Resit Melik · 2025
- Wu Consulting · Steven Tan · 2025
- FleetFlo · Dan Calano · 2025
- The rest of the record
- 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
- North American Trade Schools · Nina Chen · 2025
- The rest of what Endurance Search Partners has backed
Maven Equity Partners
- CoFi · Queris Au and Ashwin Kumar · 2026
- Message Digital · Garrison Jones · 2026
- ASI Group · Dave Ritchie · 2025
- No-IP · Suchit Rout · 2025
- The rest of the record
The Cambria Group
- O&W Heat Treat · Ali Platon and Chris Goyen · 2025
- Three Rivers Therapy · Ryan Moore · 2025
- Montis Financial · Tucker Donahoe and John Yanchek · 2021
- Cornerstone Licensing Services · Jeff Brewer · 2021
- The rest of the record
Red Forest Capital
- Glendale Parade Store · Jose Barreto · 2023
- Atlantic Duct Cleaning · Dan Schweber · 2022
- Ascend Software · Robert Southern · 2018
- Veri-Tax · Nick Lim
- The rest of the record
Applied Equity
- Meternet · Bryson Smith · 2022
- Voke · Rene Almeida and João Lima · 2019
- i4pro · Rafael Araujo · 2019
- Navegate · Nathan Dey · 2018
- 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.
- The searchers' own account, who they are castle.holdings
- The searchers' own account, the purchase and the recapitalisation castle.holdings
- Vonzeo Capital's own account, The first searcher's biography, which states the 2021 purchase and the 2023 recapitalization. vonzeocapital.com
- Aspect Investors' own account aspectinvestors.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 Michael Levine. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Endurance Search Partners' own account, The backer's partners page naming Sheret Ross. endurancesearchpartners.com
- Vonzeo Capital's own account, The second searcher's biography on the same host, which carries the same purchase sentence. vonzeocapital.com
- Maven Equity Partners' own account mavenequitypartners.com
- The Cambria Group's own account cambriagroup.com
- Red Forest Capital's own account redforestcapital.com
- Applied Equity's own account applied-equity.com