Kantola Training Solutions

The Deal

Bought By

Scott Mackenzie and Sarah Rowell

Year

2018

Vehicle

Pacific Lake Partners, backed by Search Fund Partners

Kind

Software

A California eLearning company selling harassment-prevention and compliance training used by more than fifteen thousand organizations.

What Happened Next

Acquired by Traliant in December 2023 and folded into its compliance-training catalog.

The searchers held it 5 years, from 2018 to 2023.

Bought at exit by Traliant, whose page carries that firm's own announcement of it.

Backed by the Same Firms

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.

• Pacific Lake Partners' own account pacificlake.com
• Anacapa Partners' own account anacapapartners.com
• The acquirer's announcement traliant.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, which names the searcher beside the company and the fund. endurancesearchpartners.com
• Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net

These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. One backer calls Scott Mackenzie and Sarah Rowell investors and search partners who teamed up in 2018 and lists both as chief executives, without saying they bought anything. The other backer's grid states a purchase beside a fund logo and names no person. The acquirer's release names neither searcher. The index host's card, lists the company against its own 2018 investment and its own 2023 exit and names nobody.