OnRamp
The Deal
- Bought By
- Lucas Braun and Ryan Robinson
- Year
- 2009
- Vehicle
- Brown Bird Capital, backed by Search Fund Partners and Pacific Lake Partners
- Kind
- Physical operations
An Austin colocation and compliant-cloud hosting company running certified data centers in Texas and North Carolina for healthcare, financial services and education customers.
What Happened Next
Sold to LightEdge in July 2018 after nearly a decade under its searcher-CEOs, extending the buyer's reach into Austin and Raleigh.
The searchers held it 9 years, from 2009 to 2018.
Bought at exit by Lightedge, whose page carries that firm's own announcement of it.
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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 rather than inferred.
- The searchers' own account sharpendgrowth.com
- The acquirer's announcement lightedge.com
- Housatonic Partners' own account housatonicpartners.com
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- Pacific Lake Partners' own account pacificlake.com
- A third party's record of the deal nclpartners.com