Growth Equity
Riverside
Riverside takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from United States. It states a focus on healthcare & life sciences and software & internet.
Stated investment criteria
What Riverside says it buys
Read from Riverside’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Riverside states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Riverside to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Regulatory record
How Riverside is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $924m |
| Employees | 16 |
| Private funds advised | 6 · $924m gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 160754 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Riverside lists on its own website. 13 carry a stated investment year.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enovate Medical | 2012 | 14 | — |
| Stingermedical | 2013 | 13 | — |
| Loftware | 2014 | 12 | — |
| Openforce | 2015 | 11 | — |
| Revecore | 2016 | 10 | — |
| Alarm Connections | 2017 | 9 | — |
| Alarmfundingassociates | 2017 | 9 | — |
| Calero | 2017 | 9 | — |
| 3Play Media | 2019 | 7 | — |
| Convergence Networks | 2020 | 6 | — |
| Syner-G | 2020 | 6 | — |
| Sequoia | 2022 | 4 | — |
| Net32 | 2024 | 2 | — |
| Allieddental | — | — | — |
| Dominiondiagnostics | — | — | — |
| Healthdrive | — | — | — |
| Oforce | — | — | — |
| Rdaltanova | — | — | — |
| Sequoiabiotech | — | — | — |
| Synergbiopharma | — | — | — |
| Unislink | — | — | — |
Compiled from Riverside’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Riverside is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 8 recorded exits, most recently in 2024. 2 recorded acquisitions.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plasti-Fab | Sold | Carlisle Companies | 2024 | $260m |
| Plasti-Fab | Bought | — | 2021 | $178m |
| Swedish Education Group AB | Sold | AcadeMedia | 2020 | $22m |
| Alchemy Systems LP | Sold | Intertek | 2018 | $480m |
| Blue Microphones | Sold | Logitech | 2018 | $117m |
| Tate’s Bake Shop | Sold | Mondelez International | 2018 | $500m |
| Learning Seat Pty. Ltd. | Sold | Callidus Software | 2017 | $26m |
| Baker Hill | Bought | Experian | 2015 | $100m |
| Baby Jogger Company | Sold | Newell Brands | 2014 | $210m |
| AERCO International | Sold | Watts Water Technologies | 2014 | $265m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
Valuation context
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