Additional considerations are companies with leading market shares, rapid growth,
high free cash flows, high operating margins, high barriers to entry and/or quality
branded goods or services.
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EnviroFinance Group, LLC
Year of Initial Investment:
2006
EnviroFinance Group specializes in financing the acquisition, cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties, commonly known as brownfields, throughout the United States.
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Laureate Education, Inc.
Year of Initial Investment:
2007
Laureate Education provides postsecondary education to traditional and working-adult students worldwide through its leading international network of accredited campus-based and online universities. Laureate's university network includes numerous accredited institutions spanning 20 countries and serving nearly 500,000 students in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Together, these independently branded universities offer career-focused, multi-year undergraduate, master's and doctorate degree programs in a range of career fields.
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Tasti D-Lite / Planet Smoothie
Year of Initial Investment:
2007
Tasti D-Lite was created in 1987 with a unique low-fat and lower-calorie frozen dairy dessert product sold through its network of retail stores. The product has gained extreme popularity in the New York market among health-conscious consumers and the Company is currently focused on delivering the product to domestic and international markets.
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Velocity Commercial Capital, LLC
Year of Initial Investment:
2007
Velocity focuses primarily on originating and acquiring small balance commercial real estate loans on a wide variety of property types. The company was founded in 2004 with the intent of blending residential and commercial lending disciplines to create the best product for this unique market.
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Acentia
Year of Initial Investment:
2009
Established in October 2001, Acentia is a privately held management and information technology consulting company. Acentia employs over 500 professionals located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Acentia has consulted with numerous government agencies and private companies by providing customers with expertise and solutions in the areas of program and project management, strategic planning, infrastructure operations, call center consulting, and network engineering and operations.
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ZeroChaos
Year of Initial Investment:
2010
ZeroChaos is a leading provider of contingent workforce management
solutions. The company provides a suite of solutions to procure and
manage customers’ professional contingent workforce needs. Delivered
through a web-native technology platform, ZeroChaos’ solutions help
customers improve the quality of their contingent workforce, save time
and money managing that workforce and mitigate employment-related risks
while allowing them to focus on their core businesses.
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Velvet
Year of Initial Investment:
2011
Velvet designs, manufactures and wholesales a portfolio of upscale apparel brands: Velvet by Graham & Spencer, Graham & Spencer and Velvetmen. The Company's portfolio of brands covers a wide range from contemporary to designer price points and includes t-shirts, tops, pants, shorts, skirts, dresses and other categories. The brands are primarily sold domestically through wholesale channels including specialty and department stores and internationally through distributors.
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Service Champ
Year of Initial Investment:
2012
Service Champ is the largest independent distributor of automotive aftermarket maintenance parts and accessories to oil change shops, distributing over 4,500 consumable products, including oil filters, air filters, wiper blades, and chemicals, to locations in the United States and Canada.
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Boyd Corporation
Year of Initial Investment:
2012
Boyd Corporation is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high performance, custom engineered components for large, multinational OEMs across various end markets, including the heavy truck, recreational vehicle, enterprise electronics, agriculture and construction equipment, aerospace and consumer electronics industries.
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HCTec
Year of Initial Investment:
2012
HCTec is a pure-play healthcare IT solutions provider focused on the procurement and deployment of human capital for clinical IT assignments at hospital systems nationwide. The Company’s project expertise includes electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health records (EHR) implementation, Go Live Support, and EMR/EHR consulting resources and services.
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FiberVisions Corporation
Year of Initial Investment:
2006
FiberVisions Corporation is the world’s largest producer of polypropylene staple fiber for nonwoven fabrics and textile fibers used in consumer and industrial products. Through ES-FiberVisions, a joint venture with Chisso Corporation, FiberVisions is also the global leader in the marketing and manufacturing of bicomponent specialty fibers.
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Excel Mining Systems, LLC
Year of Initial Investment:
2006
Excel is a leader in the production of roof support for the coal and hard rock mining industries. The company was founded in 1991 and quickly grew to become the premier supplier of complete roof systems in the United States. In 2007, Snow Phipps realized its investment in Excel through the sale of the company to Orica Limited.
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ArrMaz Custom Chemicals
Year of Initial Investment:
2008
ArrMaz is the leading producer of chemical process aids and functional additives for the phosphate mining, asphalt, North and South American fertilizer and nitrogen chemical industries and is a significant provider of chemical products to other industrial minerals mining industries.
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