Kivuto Solutions
The Deal
- Bought By
- Carlos Meza and Jeff Blacklock
- Year
- 2018
- Vehicle
- Legado Capital, backed by Endurance Search Partners, Search Fund Partners, Aspect Investors, The Operand Group and The Cambria Group
- Kind
- Software
An Ottawa company whose platform distributes and manages software licenses for educational institutions and publishers.
What Happened Next
Sold out of receivership: a legal magazine's deal note says Valsoft acquired the company on February 13, 2023, with the company represented by its court-appointed receiver. A local business paper had reported in February 2021 that a new chief executive replaced the first searcher.
The searchers held it 5 years, from 2018 to 2023.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
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The Operand Group
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The Cambria Group
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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.
- 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
- The Operand Group's own account theoperandgroup.com
- The Cambria Group's own account cambriagroup.com
- The company's own account finance.yahoo.com
- A third party's record of the deal canadianlawyermag.com