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Thillens

The Deal

Bought By
Resit Melik
Year
2025
Vehicle
Edessa Growth Partners, the searcher's own fund, backed by Istria Capital, Liberty Search Ventures and Legate Partners
Kind
Physical operations

A Chicago cash-logistics business founded in 1932 which describes itself as the largest independent armored car service provider in the Midwest, moving cash for financial services, gaming and retail customers and doing the accounting for it on the vehicles themselves.

What Happened Next

Operating under its searcher. His vehicle raised $14,655,000 in a raise whose first sale fell in May 2025, eighteen months after a $545,000 search raise from the same New York address and with no new principals added. That is the counter-example to the usual tell that an acquisition raise moves to the target's own metro.

The exit ends of journeys like this one, where the buyer has announced the purchase itself, are on Buyers.

Backed by the Same Firms

Futaleufu Partners

Aspect Investors

Istria Capital

Liberty Search Ventures

Legate Partners

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.

These sources name who runs the business and when the firm invested, rather than saying in a sentence that the searchers bought it. One backer's modal says Resit Melik is the chief executive of Thillens, and a second modal on the same page repeats it. The searcher's own Form D, filed by Edessa Growth Partners with a first sale in May 2025, names him and no company. The company's own site names no officer. Nothing says he bought it.