smarTours
The Deal
- Bought By
- Greg Geronemus and David Rosner
- Year
- 2013
- Vehicle
- Footbridge Partners, the searchers' own vehicle, which became their investment firm
- Kind
- Services
A New York tour operator selling curated, pre-packaged trips to distant destinations directly to travelers.
What Happened Next
Recapitalized by Summit Park in 2017 with both co-chief executives staying to lead it, by the investor's own release; their firm's team page says they found, bought, ran and sold it and served as co-chief executives from 2013 to 2019.
They recapitalized 4 years in, in 2017, without handing over the company.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
Backed by the Same Firms
- Park Dietz & Associates · Jineet Gandhi · 2026
- Vialterna · Federico Mariscal and Enrique Valdés · 2026
- IMASP · José María Jover and Ignacio Jarava · 2026
- Zeker & Mobiel · Berend Westerveld and Alex Gready · 2025
- The rest of what Relay Investments has backed
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.
- The searchers' own account footbridgepartners.com
- The acquirer's announcement summitparkllc.com
- Relay Investments' own account relayinvestments.com
- The searchers' own SEC filing sec.gov