Chris Nolter

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Senior Writer at The Deal

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Searchlight's Andrew Frey

1 month ago | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

Back to News Podcasts|Published: February 24th, 2025Searchlight Capital partner Andrew Frey discusses the firm's investment in Ziply, its preference for backing existing telephone companies over greenfield fiber and trends in telecom deals. In the latest edition of Behind the Buyouts, Searchlight Capital Partners LP partner Andrew Frey took a deep dive into the firm’s fiber playbook and the thesis behind the investment in, and sale of, Ziply Fiber.
VSS Backs Founder-Owned Salesforce Consultant Lane Four

Nov 1, 2024 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

VSS Capital Partners’ minority investment in Lane Four Consulting, announced Thursday, Oct. 31, reflects the firm’s predilection for backing founders. “Andrew Sinclair bootstrapped Lane Four for several years, and it got to the point where he wanted to find a partner to support the company’s next stage of growth,” managing director Trent Hickman said of Lane Four’s founder, who’ll maintain a majority stake.
Madison River Teams with JDC to Power the AI Boom

Aug 1, 2024 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

Data centers are the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution and of many private equity investment strategies. For instance, Blackstone Inc. (BX) has amassed a $55 billion data center portfolio and has a pipeline of additional investment that could top $70 billion. In the middle market, firms have to take a different approach. “Data centers, even the equipment, are very capital intensive and require big dollars.
Arenova's Dream Machine Tacks on Important Looking Pirates

Jul 19, 2024 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

Founder-owned Swedish visual effects house Important Looking Pirates on Tuesday, July 16, announced a merger with Dream Machine FX, a visual effects house backed by Arenova Capital. This deal marks Dream Machine’s entry into the European market and will elevate ILP’s scale and reach, with the combined footprint stretching across three continents, six countries and 11 cities.
The Deal Chronosphere Logs Acquisitions, Capital Raise

Jan 23, 2024 | pipeline.thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

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Corsair Capital's Jeremy Schein

Dec 18, 2023 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

Back to News Podcasts|Published: December 18th, 2023Corsair Capital partner Jeremy Schein discusses the convergence of payments and software, unpacks a recent insurance exit and takes stock of sponsors' portfolio company pipeline. In the latest edition of Behind the Buyouts, Corsair Capital LLC partner Jeremy Schein breaks down the convergence of payments and software. “You can’t just be the guy or gal collecting the cash,” Schein said.
Mubadala's Plan to Digitize Corporate Enterprise

Dec 5, 2023 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter |David Elman

As head of technology and software investments for Mubadala Investment Co., Ali Osman has been tracking companies that develop software to digitize human resources processes, customer relationship management, resource planning, financial suite applications and other tasks that make businesses more productive. “We’re seeing digital transformation across a variety of horizontal software capabilities,” Osman said.
Network Merchants Builds, Buys Payment Tech Stack

Dec 4, 2023 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

“Our corporate strategy has been to enable payments from signup to payout,” said Kate Hampton, chief strategy officer of NMI, or Network Merchants LLC. NMI provides a white-label payments service to independent sales organizations that connect merchants and payment processors, software publishers and financial technology companies. Founded in 2001, NMI has had to respond to technology changes in payments over the decades, including the emergence of disruptive payments companies such as Stripe Inc.
Ivest's Mini-Warner Bros Plan for CloudCo, Care Bears

Sep 22, 2023 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

At first blush, Ivest Consumer Partners LLC might seem an unlikely buyer for CloudCo Entertainment, which owns the Care Bears and other properties that combine consumer intellectual property and content. “There are very few pieces of IP that we would call multi-generational evergreen, classic brands. Most of those are acquired by large IP houses,” Ivest co-founding partner Aston Loch said following the firm’s August purchase of CloudCo at a roughly $100 million enterprise valuation.
Magnetar Targets White Space in AI, Computing

Sep 20, 2023 | thedeal.com | Chris Nolter

CoreWeave Inc. sits at the intersection of two torrid industries: high-performance computing hardware and applications such as generative AI that rely on computing power. The Roseland, N.J., company, which raised billions in debt and equity this year from Magnetar Capital LLC, Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund LP, Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) and others, operates a cloud network of high-performance graphic processing units, or GPUs, that support AI, visual effects for movies and TV and other workloads.