private-equity-backed
(7)
Escalon Services: growth without the paperwork hangover
A funding round can turn a founder’s makeshift books into an investor’s urgent question. Escalon sells the finance, HR, and tax support that growing companies need before the paperwork starts running the business.
Polaris Software and the business of getting paperwork out of the way
From pavement permits to police armouries, Polaris sells software for the work behind public services. Its growth rests on a practical bet: joining up the paperwork can be worth more than another app.
The Body Shop Roll-Up Betting Everything on Doing It the Carmaker's Way
Jerod Guerin left a decade at Service King to build Quality Collision Group - 100-plus OEM-certified collision centers across 13 states, assembled shop by shop, with new manufacturer parts and no shortcuts.
Encore Vet Group
Encore Vet Group is a Saratoga Springs, New York-based community of veterinary hospitals founded in 2018 by Ted Sprinkle, DVM, Lance Sprinkle, and Bo Iler. Rather than running a top-down corporate chain, Encore acquires established community and legacy veterinary practices and then hands the day-to-day medicine and culture back to the local teams while layering on business support, leadership training, and mental-health resources. Backed by private-equity firm North Castle Partners, the group has grown to roughly 60 hospitals and around 1,900-2,200 team members, and it operates education platforms like Encore Performance Academy and the MentorCore virtual mentorship program for new graduates.
Perforce Software
Perforce Software builds the version control, DevOps, and quality tools that large engineering teams lean on when their codebases and binary assets grow too big for ordinary tools. Its flagship - Helix Core, rebranded P4 in 2025 - moves enormous game studios, semiconductor designers, automakers, and defense programs along, while a portfolio gathered through acquisitions (Puppet, Perfecto, Delphix, Klocwork, Gliffy and more) extends from source control into static analysis, test automation, infrastructure automation, and test data management. Founded in 1995 and now backed by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners, Perforce powers more than half of the Global 500.
KeepingCount
KeepingCount is an industry-focused outsourced accounting and bookkeeping platform that takes the finance function off business owners' plates. Founded in 2023 by Jeff Russell and backed by Housatonic Partners, the company is building vertical-specific brands - real estate, construction, e-commerce, vacation rentals, life sciences, consumer products and professional services - staffed by accountants who specialize in each industry rather than the traditional geography-based generalist model. KeepingCount delivers accounting, advisory (CFO/controller), tax and payroll services on platforms like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online, managing more than $250 million in annual client revenue.
Bristol Hospice
Bristol Hospice is a Salt Lake City-based provider of hospice and palliative care that has grown from a single Utah location in 2006 into a national operator running roughly 78-80 locations across 25 states. Backed by private equity firm Webster Equity Partners, it offers adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care, and specialty comfort programs for dementia, respiratory disease, sleep, and veterans, with a mission centered on compassion, respect, and 'a reverence for life.'