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Sources suggested Audax could fetch more than $1.5bn in a sale.

Lightyear, JC Flowers and GTCR are among the PE firms making tracks in the space this year.

Sovereign Capital, Atlantic Street Capital and Platinum Equity are among the firms investing in the education sector.

Some of the biggest deals that closed in Q1 were in the TMT sector: Silver Lake bought Endeavor for about $10bn; IBM bought HashiCorp for $8.1bn; Blackstone and Vista bought Smartsheet for $7.9bn.

Gates moved earlier this year from KKR to Northrim to focus on the lower mid-market.

After hearing pitches from more than 50 suitors over the years, Kline Hill found a match in TA, managing partner Mike Bego told Secondaries Investor.

Equity Methods provides executive compensation and stock-based compensation reporting, valuation, and advisory services.

SolarWinds is among a slew of enterprise software companies that private equity firms have taken private in 2025.

Aside from Pophouse Entertainment buying the KISS catalog for $300 million or HarbourView Equity Partners snapping up the music catalog assets of artists that include Nelly or Pat Benatar, smaller deals prevail.

'We have completed acquisitions that rival the size of what would have previously qualified as smaller, standalone platform investments,' says managing partner and co-founder Rory Devlin.