Message Digital
The Deal
- Bought By
- Garrison Jones
- Year
- 2026
- Vehicle
- Wailes Capital, backed by Pacific Lake Partners, Trilogy Search Partners and Maven Equity Partners
- Kind
- Software
A Berkeley, California software company whose email, texting and CRM tools run outreach for political campaigns and nonprofits.
What Happened Next
Trading under its own name, with the index host naming him chief executive beside its 2026 investment and the second backer carrying the company as still held.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
Backed by the Same Firms
- CoFi · Queris Au and Ashwin Kumar · 2026
- Park Dietz & Associates · Jineet Gandhi · 2026
- Connected Dealer Services · Tommy Högström and Marcus Jörgensen · 2026
- Surge · Jimmy Gillespie · 2026
- The rest of what Pacific Lake Partners has backed
- Upper Hand · Brad Wills and Brad Greene · 2025
- Premier World Discovery · Rafa Caldas and Zach Krumholz · 2025
- ExpensePoint · Mohamed Farid · 2024
- Reliable Premium Management · Henrique de Freitas · 2024
- The rest of what Trilogy Search Partners has backed
Maven Equity Partners
- No-IP · Suchit Rout · 2025
- Premier Tree Specialists · Matt Ostrowski · 2024
- Windmill Wellness Ranch · Ani Narasimhan · 2024
- Energy Ogre · Taylor Mattingly and John Watson · 2024
- 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.
- Pacific Lake Partners' own account pacificlake.com
- Trilogy Search Partners' own account trilogy-search.com
- Maven Equity Partners' own account mavenequitypartners.com
- A third party's record of the deal searchfundsnews.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 host names him as chief executive beside its 2026 investment; the second backer lists the company and names nobody. Nothing says he bought it.