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BluWave Receives Strategic Growth Investment

BluWave Receives $14 Million Strategic Growth Investment led by Highmount Capital to Scale Market Network Platform for Private Equity Services NASHVILLE, Tenn. (October 29, 2025) – BluWave, the leading market network platform connecting private equity firms and their portfolio companies with top-tier boutique professional service providers and interim executives, today announced the close of a $14 million growth investment. The investment was led by Highmount Capital, with participation from...
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Private Equity Firms, Private Company

An Interview with Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Bunker Hill Capital

We recently spoke with Mark DeBlois and Rufus Clark, two of the Co-Founders and Managing Partners of Bunker Hill Capital, a private equity firm investing in entrepreneur and founder-owned lower middle market companies in North America. Bunker Hill has offices in Boston, MA and San Diego, CA. The four partners at Bunker Hill have worked together for over 20 years as private equity investors with lower middle market companies. As lead investors, they actively work with portfolio companies...
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Private Equity Firms, Due Diligence

An Interview with Aterian Investment Partners Co-Founder & Partner, Michael Fieldstone

Michael Fieldstone is a Co-Founder and Partner at Aterian and has worked in private equity investing for more than twenty years. Prior to founding Aterian in 2009, he was a principal at both Sun Capital Partners and Apollo Management, and part of the Mergers & Acquisitions Investment banking group at Salomon Smith Barney. With regard to taking the entrepreneurial plunge with Aterian, he says: “We set out to build a firm that appreciates all the stakeholders of a company. To be collaborative in...
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Private Equity Firms, Deal Teams, Due Diligence

An Interview with Senior Partner at New Heritage Capital, Charlie Gifford

Charlie Gifford co-founded private equity firm New Heritage Capital in 2006, and has been investing in founder-owned, lower middle-market businesses for 22 years. He leads the firm’s origination practice, focusing his efforts on generating new investment opportunities and developing and maintaining intermediary relationships. In addition to his passion for the New England Patriots, Gifford is a strong believer in the concept of capital-and-thought partnerships for the companies in which his...
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Private Equity Firms, Deal Teams, Due Diligence

Insights from EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Economics, Scarcity, and Innovation

Russ Roberts is not your typical economist. As the longtime host of the podcast EconTalk, the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a collection of economics-related books to his name, it would be easy to throw him into a traditional category. But, as the current President of Shalem University in Jerusalem recently told me: “My perspective on economics is constantly evolving as I learn more about what it is to be a human.” Roberts also holds the...
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Private Equity Firms, Finance

Trailblazing in Private Equity: Insights from Pam Hendrickson of Riverside

Pam Hendrickson is Vice Chair at the Riverside Company and a trailblazer in the world of finance and private equity. Growing up in Manhattan she was surrounded by the world of business. However, as a kid, opportunities in business also felt far away, as finance at the time was a landscape that was largely dominated by men. If you know Pam, she’s not someone who shies away from pursuing her dreams. She learned through determination, collaboration, and optimism that anything was possible. Pam...
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Private Equity Firms, Finance

Navigating Private Equity with Matthew Garff: Insights and Strategies

Within the first few minutes of my conversation with Matthew Garff, two things became crystal clear: He fundamentally believes in what’s possible and he approaches potential problems with radical honesty. This is a personal as well as professional attitude and has served him well throughout the course of his three decades career. While the last two years have often felt like a mission impossible, Garff and the team at Sun Capital Partners (perhaps the name of the firm says it all?) remained a...
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Private Equity Firms

An Interview with Great Range Capital’s Ryan Sprott

Ryan Sprott and Paul Maxwell aren’t your typical brothers-in-law. Instead of solely cavorting during family vacations, holiday meals, and the occasional couples trips, they went all in and founded a company together. After working in New York’s private equity industry for nearly two decades, the two entrepreneurs moved their families back to Kansas City to launch Great Range Capital in 2010. Their mission: to serve the neglected but vital demographic of Heartland family- and founder-owned...
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Private Equity Firms

A letter from the CEO on being named the 127th fastest-growing private company according to Inc.

I am extremely proud to share BluWave has been recognized as the 127th fastest-growing private company in the 2021 Inc. 5000 list. This achievement reflects extremely hard work by our talented and innovative team, a strong sense of pride being in service to others, and the amazing partnerships we’ve earned with hundreds of the world’s best business builders in the private equity industry. During my nearly 20 years in private equity, my earliest business goal was to reach a partner position at a...
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Inside Trivest: Troy Templeton on Private Equity and Growth Strategies

At first glance, Troy Templeton is a stereotypical private equity managing partner demonized by the click-bait driven media machine and industry detractors as “people in charge of thrashing companies only to fill Steven Schwarzman’s pockets.” Is part of his role at Trivest to make money? Of course, because that is the role of any business. But when I spoke to Troy—who joined the “oldest private equity firm in the Southeastern United States” in 1989—he told quite a different story than the...
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Private Equity Firms

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Preparing A Company for Sale

After a nearly 20-year career in private equity, I’ve learned to appreciate that it takes just as much work to effectively sell a company as it does to excellently buy a company. It’s also easy to slip up or not pay enough attention to vital steps that could profoundly change the final price upon sale. Sellers make a number of common mistakes during sale processes, including a lack of advance preparation, not knowing key questions about themselves, and not appropriately resourcing the business...
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Private Equity Firms, Prep For Sale, Portfolio CEOs

Riveter Capital: Championing Women and Minority-Owned Businesses in PE

Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in the private equity industry understands how difficult it is to “disrupt” the space. This has less to do with a lack of desire and more to do with the heaviness of the lift: being an innovator or a market leader is not for the faint of heart. But as we are discovering, after a year that rocked the globe and upended many aspects of our lives, now is the time to make strides and truly challenge the status quo. For Colleen Gurda and her partner...
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Private Equity Firms

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