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Small Market Deal of the Year: Blackford Capital and Quality Aluminum Products

Quality Aluminum Products was showing signs of rust until Blackford came knocking.

Where's the beef? Trivest seeks to consolidate fragmented industry

Trivest made a non-control investment in Miami Beef last year, and the portfolio company acquired Brooklyn Burger and Devault Foods earlier this year.

Venture debt lending offers new growth horizon for Monroe Capital

“When the stock markets are down, IPO markets are closed, and exits are down, that’s when this business does really well.”

Yellow Wood sees new M&A opportunities as it acquires Suave from Unilever

'Innovation is very important to these brands as consumers want new things all the time.'

WCAS' Ed Sobol: EMS software and communication 'can be the difference between life and death'

WCAS announced a majority investment in ImageTrend earlier in February.

HR tech: 5 PE-backed deals that bring innovation to workforce management

LLR, Thoma Bravo and Vistria are among the PE firms that have made recent HR tech investments.

LLR buys Viventium, bets on payroll for the post-acute market

The market Viventium serves 'has really challenging human capital dynamics in terms of retaining, paying and engaging employees,' said LLR's Sasank Aleti.

ChatGPT may be just the beginning, as AI spurs PE and M&A activity

AI, customer engagement, digital transformation and cybersecurity are hot, said Union Square Advisors' Wayne Kawarabayashi.

Silversmith looks to repeat Iodine journey with AI-driven car dealership software

Making AI effective in a commercial setting requires both the right algorithm and the right data set, said Silversmith’s Todd MacLean.