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DSD Partners

The Deal

Bought By
Mark Devooght
Year
2021
Vehicle
Parkhill Capital, backed by Search Fund Partners, Anacapa Partners, Aspect Investors, Pacific Lake Partners, Endurance Search Partners and WSC & Company
Kind
Software

Software and services for managing perishable food and beverage categories and their suppliers in convenience stores and other small-format retailers.

What Happened Next

Trading under its own name, with the index host naming him as chief executive beside its March 2021 investment and the second backer's grid stating the purchase beside a logo. A third lists the company under its new name, and a fourth names him beside its own 2021 investment under that name.

The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.

Backed by the Same Firms

Search Fund Partners

Anacapa Partners

Aspect Investors

Pacific Lake Partners

Endurance Search Partners

WSC & Company

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.

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 March 2021 investment; the second backer's grid states the purchase beside a logo and names no person. Nothing says he bought it.