ICS Completes Acquisition of TechMD
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
11M ago
Endicott, NY October 18, 2022 – ICS, a portfolio company of ClearLight Partners and leading provider of Information Technology (IT) Managed Services, has acquired TechMD, a provider of Managed IT Services to small to medium businesses, headquartered in Orange County, California. Under the stewardship of Mark Perez and Sebastian Igreti over its twenty-year history, TechMD has helped small-to-medium sized businesses and organizations in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County metro areas by providing IT managed services, cybersecurity services, technical services, cloud solutions and product p ..read more
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ICS Announces Acquisition Of Unified Networking Solutions
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
2y ago
Endicott, NY March 17, 2022 – ICS, a portfolio company of ClearLight Partners and leading provider of Information Technology (IT) Managed Services in the Northeast, announced it has acquired Unified Networking Solutions (UNS), a provider of IT Products and Services in the Southeastern Massachusetts market. Headquartered in Raynham, MA, UNS was founded in 2010 and has grown by helping local government, education, and commercial clients throughout New England achieve success by providing technology solutions and support. UNS offers managed IT services, hardware and software procurement, and ..read more
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ClearLight Partners Promotes Jeff Manassero and Kyle Burke to Partner and Dustin Byer to Principal
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
2y ago
NEWPORT BEACH, CA July 14, 2021 – Private equity firm ClearLight Partners announced today the promotion of Jeff Manassero and Kyle Burke to Partner and Dustin Byer to Principal. “Jeff, Kyle and Dustin have been key contributors to ClearLight’s success, and we’re delighted to announce these promotions,” said Michael Kaye, Founder and Managing Partner of ClearLight. Kyle joined ClearLight in 2006 and, other than time off to get his MBA, has been with ClearLight since that time. Before joining ClearLight Kyle worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company. Kyle holds BA and BS deg ..read more
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Picks and Shovels: The Golden Age for Service Providers to PE Firms is Now
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
3y ago
  Read time: 3-4 minutes “When everyone is looking for gold, it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.” (Mark Twain)   Introduction Metaphorically speaking, a company is said to be in the picks and shovels business if they are providing derivative goods and services in support of entities engaged in some primary activity.  Using the gold mining analogy, the idea is that while perhaps less glamorous, it may be a similarly lucrative yet less painful existence to simply hand out the tools than to be the ones tasked with using them.  I contend that we are amidst a ..read more
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ICS Announces Acquisition Of AKUITY Technologies
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
3y ago
Endicott, NY January 5, 2021 – ICS, a portfolio company of ClearLight Partners and leading provider of Information Technology (IT) Managed Services in the Northeast, announced it has acquired AKUITY Technologies (“AKUITY”), a provider of IT Managed Services in the greater New England area. Headquartered in Auburn, MA, AKUITY was founded in 1988 and has grown by helping small-to-medium sized businesses throughout New England achieve success through greater returns on their technology investment. Along with managed IT services, AKUITY offers strategic planning, hardware and software procure ..read more
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How PE Firms Can Use Content Marketing to Source Deals
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
3y ago
Read time: 5-6 minutes “Mediocre content will hurt your brand more than doing nothing at all.” (Joe Pulizzi)   Introduction Content marketing is growing in importance for private equity. The logic goes something like this: There are a lot of private equity funds Demand for good deals exceeds supply Capital is perceived to be a commodity Therefore, if a fund wants to beat its competition, it needs to get better at marketing Content marketing is defined as a type of marketing that involves the creation and sharing of online material that does not explicitly promote a brand but is intende ..read more
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Creative Destruction: How Private Equity BD May Change Forever
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
3y ago
Read time: 3-4 minutes “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” (Pablo Picasso)   Introduction The pandemic is stress testing everything, and COVID-19 may finally kill several BD strategies already in decline.  This isn’t great news because finding good deals at reasonable prices is still challenging, and the menu of remaining strategies to stay ahead of the competition has become pretty limited.  Just ask anyone who has submitted an indication of interest in a traditional auction process recently.  It is not pretty.   As it pertains to deal sourcin ..read more
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Themes & Sectors to Watch During and After COVID-19
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
4y ago
Read time: 3-4 minutes “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters.  One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.” (John F. Kennedy)   Introduction I just read (and re-read) an article that suggests a third of Americans are now showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression according to Census Bureau data from May of 2020.  In response to one question about depressed mood, the percentage reporting such symptoms showed a twofold increase from when a similar survey was taken in 2014.  That means we now have just over 109 million ..read more
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Jordan Selleck of 51 Labs interviews Mark Gartner on ClearLight’s history and the past, present and future of private equity deal sourcing.
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
4y ago
Jordan Selleck of 51 Labs interviews Mark Gartner on ClearLight’s history and the past, present and future of private equity deal sourcing ..read more
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ClearLight Partners Invests in ICS
ClearLight Partners
by Mark Gartner
4y ago
NEWPORT BEACH, CA May 08, 2020 – Private equity firm ClearLight Partners announced today that it has made an investment in ICS, a provider of IT managed services, in partnership with ICS’ owner, Kevin Blake. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Endicott, NY, ICS was founded in 1986 and has grown over its nearly 35-year history to now include three offices in upstate New York serving small and medium-sized businesses across a diverse array of end markets. ICS’ service offering includes managed services, cybersecurity, cloud migration & other project-based services ..read more
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