Sterling Labs
The Deal
- Bought By
- Tim O'Donnell
- Year
- Not published by any primary source
- The index host prints its own investment month, January 2022, which is the backer's date; the company's own about page names him and gives no history of the change; the second backer's tile carries no year at all.
- Vehicle
- Backed by Search Fund Partners, Futaleufu Partners, Aspect Investors, Trilogy Search Partners, The Operand Group and The Cambria Group
- Kind
- Services
A Chicago analytical laboratory, formerly Stat Analysis Corporation, running environmental and industrial-hygiene testing for consultants, contractors and building owners.
What Happened Next
Trading under its new name. The index host names him chief executive beside its January 2022 investment and the company's own about page agrees. A second backer's tile pairs him with the company and calls him its finance chief, which is the disagreement that held this row for a week.
The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.
Backed by the Same Firms
- RouteGenie · Cameron Craig · 2025
- Strategic Kids · Graham Brockington and Andy Morrow · 2025
- Wu Consulting · Steven Tan · 2025
- CyberData Pros · Keith Burns · 2025
- The rest of what Search Fund Partners has backed
- CoFi · Queris Au and Ashwin Kumar · 2026
- Thillens · Resit Melik · 2025
- Maher Services · Daniel Chase and Laurent Firlotte · 2025
- FluidSecure · Arnab Chatterjee, Ian Field and Jordan Freeman · 2025
- The rest of what Futaleufu Partners has backed
Aspect Investors
- FleetFlo · Dan Calano · 2025
- Choice Water Solutions · Alisdair Ferguson and Chase Epstein · 2024
- Parsec Group · Graeme Hewett and Nadim Muzayyin · 2024
- CRSS · Lisa Hooey · 2024
- The rest of the record
- Message Digital · Garrison Jones · 2026
- ASI Group · Dave Ritchie · 2025
- Wayleadr · Alex Thinath · 2025
- Premier World Discovery · Rafa Caldas and Zach Krumholz · 2025
- The rest of what Trilogy Search Partners has backed
The Operand Group
- Blue Peak Tents · Cody Adelizzi · 2025
- Tacna · Juan Pablo Arriaga and Santiago Ganem · 2024
- P&S Machining and Fabrication · MP Spierer · 2022
- Moneta Technologies · Ricardo Canedo and J. Andrés Labrador
The Cambria Group
- O&W Heat Treat · Ali Platon and Chris Goyen · 2025
- Three Rivers Therapy · Ryan Moore · 2025
- Windmill Wellness Ranch · Ani Narasimhan · 2024
- Anterra · Lori Harrington · 2021
- 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.
- Search Fund Partners' own account searchfunds.net
- Futaleufu Partners' own account futaleufu-partners.com
- The company's own account thesterlinglab.com
- Aspect Investors' own account aspectinvestors.com
- Trilogy Search Partners' own account trilogy-search.com
- The Operand Group's own account theoperandgroup.com
- The Cambria Group's own account cambriagroup.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 in a sentence beside its January 2022 investment; a second backer's tile pairs him with the company and calls him its finance chief; the company's own page says chief executive. Nothing says he bought it.