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Campus Connect Is Buying the Boring Software Colleges Cannot Turn Off
The Miami holding company is assembling financial aid, admissions and student-system businesses without erasing the names on the door. Its bet is simple: in higher education, continuity can be more valuable than disruption.
Redbrick Quit Selling Clicks and Built a $100 Million Software Portfolio
The Victoria company escaped a volatile performance-marketing model by turning its operating playbook into a portfolio. Now the interesting product is not any single app - it is the machinery Redbrick uses to make mature software grow again.
The Company That Buys Software It Never Plans to Sell
A permanent home for ERP software companies. While private equity flips manufacturing software every four and a half years, Mirador buys the businesses its customers keep for a decade - and keeps them too.
Universe
Universe is an Atlanta-based modern holding company that buys and builds vertical software businesses. Founded in 2021 by Nick Miller and Eric Stromberg, it acquires and incubates niche software products, then deploys capital and infrastructure to grow them into purpose-built tools for specific markets. Its portfolio spans Goldie (business management for solopreneurs in beauty and wellness), Equilab (a training community for equestrians), and Invoke (AI-powered tools for artists and creative teams).