Articles from Edison Partners

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity firm, today announced it has been named a 2026 Top PE Innovator Award winner by BluWave. This marks the firm’s second consecutive year receiving this distinction.

Payra, a B2B payments and accounts receivable automation platform built for blue-collar and construction-oriented businesses running on legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, has raised a growth equity investment of $15 million from Edison Partners, the growth equity firm announced today.

Leading growth equity firm Edison Partners announced today that it has been named to Grady Campbell’s 2026 TOP 50 Private Equity Firms in the Middle Market™, as well as to its TOP 50 PE Firms for Founders list.

Leading growth equity firm Edison Partners announced today that it was named to Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, marking its fifth consecutive year of recognition for the firm’s continued commitment to uniquely helping founder-led companies scale and succeed.

KnowledgeLake, an AI‑powered enterprise workflow automation platform, and growth equity firm Edison Partners announced a majority growth investment of $65 million. KnowledgeLake management and existing shareholders also participated. Kevin Herr, long‑time COO and CFO, has been named CEO, succeeding Ron Cameron, who will remain in an advisory role. Under Herr’s leadership, the new capital will be invested in customer success, partnership expansion, go‑to‑market strategies, and market-leading AI capabilities.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity firm, today announced the promotion of four team members across its investment, value creation and marketing functions: Shelby McKeown, Felix Rauch, Nonnie Egbuna and Hannah Kenney. Since joining the firm in 2023, each has made high-impact contributions to Edison’s growth.

NPHub, the country’s first digital platform matching nurse practitioner students and professionals with clinical rotation and job placements, and Edison Partners, a leading growth equity firm, today announced a $20 million growth equity investment.

Leading growth equity firm Edison Partners today announced its exit from MoneyLion (NYSE: ML), following the company’s acquisition by Gen Digital Inc. ("Gen") (NASDAQ: GEN), finalized on April 10.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity firm, today announced it has been named a 2025 Top Private Equity Innovator by BluWave, the Business Builders’ Network that connects the private equity industry with best-in-class talent, industry consultants and service providers.

Growth equity firm Edison Partners announced today the exit of its investment in RapidDeploy to Motorola Solutions, the leading provider of cloud-native next-generation 911 mapping, mobile and analytics solutions for public safety agencies. Financial terms were not disclosed. Read Motorola Solutions’ announcement here.

Growth equity investment firm Edison Partners today announced leading a $115 million growth investment in New York-based Fingercheck, which provides a state-of-the-art, all-in-one workforce management platform for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with ‘deskless’ workforces. StepStone Group [NASDAQ: STEP] and Columbus Capital also participated in the investment. Fingercheck was advised by KPMG Corporate Finance. The company is also announcing the appointment of highly experienced executive leader Dan Kazan as Chief Executive Officer. Under Kazan’s leadership, the company will use the new capital to further develop its product and technology and expand its headcount and go-to-market efforts.

Growth equity investment firm Edison Partners today announced leading a $20 million growth investment in K1x, a leading SaaS financial technology company and pioneer of all-digital K-1 data aggregation and reporting for the capital markets. Edison is doubling down on K1x, making an additional investment to accelerate its momentum in modernizing K-1 reporting and data management.

Seismos and Edison Partners today announced a new $15 million growth investment to enable and accelerate the energy industry’s shift from analog-focused exploration and production to technology-driven, digital infrastructure and autonomous production operations. This growth equity investment will support Seismos’ expansion across its existing oil and gas industry base and into new verticals, such as geothermal and mining that are similarly embracing modern digital infrastructure solutions.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, today announced the promotion of Michael Dirla to Vice President. In his new position, Dirla will work more closely with Edison Partners’ portfolio companies, while also expanding his role in identifying and evaluating potential investments in Financial Technology and Enterprise Solutions.

Growth equity investment firm Edison Partners announced today that it has opened a new office in Nashville, Tennessee located at the Nashville Warehouse Company in the Wedgewood Houston neighborhood.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, today announced the appointment of veteran healthcare executive Patrick O’Keefe as an Operating Partner, further strengthening the firm’s Edison Edge value creation platform. O’Keefe will identify and evaluate investment opportunities for the firm in healthcare technology and advise its portfolio company executives on leadership and go-to-market strategies, among other responsibilities.

Growth equity investment firm Edison Partners today announced leading a $43 million growth investment in 120Water, a leading cloud-based water management and testing system based in Zionsville, Indiana, with continued participation from Allos Ventures. The new funds will be used to further expand the 120Water team, technology investments, and go-to-market efforts.

Edison Partners is honored to announce it has been named as a 2023 Founder-Friendly Investor by Inc. The award recognizes private equity, venture capital and debt firms with the strongest track records of successfully partnering with founders, who shared data on how their portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships.

Growth equity investment firm Edison Partners today announced leading a $25M growth investment in Dallas-based Take Command, an end-to-end individual healthcare benefits platform for small and mid-market employers. Take Command will use the funds to expand sales and marketing, build out its customer-experience driven technology platform, innovate new marketplace offerings and grow transformative partnerships.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, is pleased to announce that Ben Laufer has joined the investment team as a Principal. Laufer is the tenth new hire in the last 18 months, as the tech-focused growth equity firm continues to bolster its ranks. Last week, Edison announced the hiring of three investment and value creation professionals.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, today announced the addition of three new hires, strengthening its investment and value creation teams. The latest members of the investment team are Shelby McKeown and Felix Rauch, and Nonnie Egbuna joins the Edison Edge team.

Edison Partners, the growth equity investment firm, today announced the sale of portfolio company Northpass to Gainsight, the world’s leading Customer Success platform and a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company. The transaction generated a strong return for Edison. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, continues to invest in its future with the promotion of three members of the firm’s investment team, Steve Zieja to principal, Grace Hahn to senior associate and Dylan Kiger to associate. Further, John Shearburn, former Warburg Pincus managing director, has been appointed senior advisor to the firm.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, today announced a $15 million investment in K1x, the leading provider of automated solutions for aggregation and packet production for the Schedule K-1 federal tax form and end-to-end tax return solutions for tax-exempt organizations. The investment closely follows K1x’s acquisition of tax-technology products from Crowe LLP. As part of the transaction, Jennifer Lee, partner at Edison Partners, will join K1x’s board of directors.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, today announced the appointment of Rush Baker as partner, head of investor relations, and Casey Myers as partner, head of Edison Edge value creation platform. In these newly created roles, Baker and Myers will further expand the breadth and depth of the Edison senior team’s capabilities as the firm’s AUM increases.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, today announced a USD $20 million investment in Field Effect, an Ottawa-based global cyber security company specializing in intelligence-grade protection for small and medium organizations. Edison Partners leads the $30 million round, joined by other strategic investors, who have contributed a combined $10 million.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity firm, announced today the promotion of its general partner, Kelly Ford, to chief operating officer (COO). This newly created position is the first of its kind in the firm’s 36-year history. In Ford’s new role, she oversees the firm’s operations, including the Edison Edge value creation platform, investment development, finance, portfolio operations and marketing. Her role is critical to the continued, consistent growth of Edison’s assets under management (AUM), Edison Edge capabilities and the Edison team.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm, has promoted Robert “Bobby” Dickey to principal. This promotion recognizes Dickey’s contributions as a key member of Edison Partners’ investing team and his work alongside its portfolio.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity firm, announced today that it will exit portfolio company Budderfly, in which Partners Group (SIX: PGHN) acquired a majority stake. Upon closing, the transaction will deliver a strong cash return.

Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investing firm, today announced the closing of its 10th fund, Edison Partners X, oversubscribed at $450 million. Fund X is the firm’s third consecutive fund dedicated to growth equity since 2015 and the largest in the firm’s 36-year history.