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GTCR to Acquire Majority Stake in Simpli.fi

September 01, 2017

Investment to Support Growth of Leading Platform for Local Programmatic Advertising Simpli.fi, the programmatic advertising platform that delivers localization and personalization at scale, announced today that GTCR, a leading Private Equity firm based in Chicago, IL, will acquire a majority stake in the company. The investment from GTCR, along with...

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Simpli.fi Named to Fast Tech 2017

August 30, 2017

For the second year in a row, The Dallas Business Journal has recognized Simpli.fi as one of the 20 fastest growing companies in tech.  The 2017 Fast Tech rankings were announced last Friday night at the annual Tech Titans Awards Gala. Fast Tech recognizes the fastest growing technology, media, telecom, life...

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Dinova and Tripism Partner on Business Travel Review App

August 03, 2017

Dinova and Tripism Partner on Business Travel Review App to feature Restaurants that are Business Dining Preferred Atlanta (August 1, 2017) – Dinova, Inc. and Tripism, Ltd announced today an integrated product and marketing partnership that will redefine how business travelers find and rate restaurants for their business dining needs....

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Dinova Recognized as one of the 40 Fastest-Growing Companies in Georgia

June 23, 2017

Atlanta (June 23, 2017) – Dinova, Inc., the only innovative proprietary marketplace exclusively focused on connecting business diners to restaurants nationwide, was recognized last night at the Association for Corporate Growth® (ACG) annual Atlanta Chapter Georgia Fast 40 Awards Gala.  The ACG is a global professional organization with the mission...

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ECI to Become Vibe HCM Inc. Following Acquisition of cFactor Works Inc.

May 25, 2017

Electronic Commerce Inc. to Become Vibe HCM Inc. Following Acquisition of cfactor Works Inc. CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Electronic Commerce Inc. (ECI), a leading SaaS payroll and HR provider, today announced it has acquired cfactor Works Inc. and its award-winning product suite Vibe HCM in a move that will create an...

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Dinova Business Dining Marketplace Reports 45% Growth in Q1 2017

May 22, 2017

Dinova, Inc., the only innovative proprietary marketplace exclusively focused on connecting business diners to restaurants nationwide, announced its first quarter marketplace results. Business dining spend through Dinova's marketplace has increased an astounding 45.34% in the first quarter of 2017, with a 39.9% growth in the number of business dining transactions...

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Frontier Announces Investment in Atlanta-based Dinova, Inc.

May 02, 2017

Frontier is very excited to announce the completion of a growth equity investment in Dinova, the only company exclusively focused on connecting business diners to quality restaurants and caterers nationwide. With a proprietary marketplace of more than 14,000 restaurants and corporate partners that include hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and...

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Frontier Successfully Exits NetDocuments

March 27, 2017

Frontier Capital is pleased to announce that NetDocuments, the leading provider of cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) document and email management solutions to the legal vertical, has been acquired by Clearlake Capital. Since Frontier’s 2014 investment, CEO Matt Duncan and his team rapidly transformed NetDocuments from a niche provider into the recognized...

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Frontier Capital Names Scott Hoch, Seth Harward Partners in Firm

February 08, 2017

Frontier Capital, a Charlotte-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business services companies, has named Seth Harward and Scott Hoch partners in the firm. Harward and Hoch previously both held the position of principal. They join co-founders and managing partners Richard Maclean and Andrew Lindner and partners...

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talentReef Business Momentum Continues with Record-Breaking Results and Profitable Growth in 2016

January 23, 2017

DENVER, CO — January 23, 2017 — talentReef, the market-leading cloud provider to recruit, hire, and manage the Service Industry's Hourly workforce, announced best ever financials in 2016. talentReef's achievements were anchored by significant new customer wins in the retail, grocery, hotel/hospitality, and entertainment sectors; along with broad adoption across...

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Another Big Customer Win for Frontier Capital's NetDocuments

January 11, 2017

NetDocuments, the leading cloud-based document and email management (DMS) provider for law firms and corporate legal departments, landed another big customer win with the addition of King & Spalding. The international, award-winning firm joins the hundreds of law firms and corporate legal departments who became part of the global NetDocuments...

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Frontier Capital Announces Investment in AccessOne

January 05, 2017

Frontier is very excited to announce the completion of a majority equity investment in AccessOne, a leading technology-enabled financial engagement platform that helps patients manage their out-of-pocket healthcare costs while offering hospitals a comprehensive, compliant and patient-friendly solution for improving access to care and collection of patient receivables.   Founded...

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Frontier Successfully Exits Healthx

January 04, 2017

Frontier Capital portfolio company, Healthx Inc, recently announced a strategic growth investment from JMI Equity. This marks the culmination of our successful five-year partnership with Healthx, a leading provider of digital cloud-based engagement tools that help health plan members improve their health and healthcare payers reduce administrative costs.  Since investing...

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Frontier Capital’s Aviacode Acquires Revant Solutions

January 04, 2017

Aviacode, a leader in professional fee coding, has acquired the assets of Florida-based Revant Solutions, a long-time provider of facility coding outsourced services. Aviacode will retain the majority of Revant’s full-time facility coders, auditors and operations managers, and obtain the company’s existing clients, including one of the largest medical care...

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Frontier Capital Tech Titans Awards Finalist

August 25, 2016

Frontier Capital was proud to be a finalist for “Investment Catalyst” as part of the Tech Titans Awards, sponsored by the Metroplex Technology Business Council in Dallas. This year’s honor, which Frontier earned in 2013, went to newly established Dallas-based venture capital fund Hangar Ventures for its focus on making...

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Frontier Capital Named as a Finalist for the ACG Arizona Deal of the Year Award

April 25, 2016

The finalists have been announced for ACG Arizona's "Deal of the Year" Award, which will be presented at a dinner on Tuesday, May 10 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa Gold Ballroom. The "Deal of the Year" award is given annually to a company or private equity firm in recognition of their...

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HIMSS 2016 - "What Happened In Vegas"

March 17, 2016

It was fitting that HIMSS returned to Las Vegas because like Vegas, in a word, HIMSS16 was consistent. There were many of the same old problems: out of control costs, a far-from retail-like consumer experience, providers struggling to adapt to changing care delivery and reimbursement models, and siloed data creating challenges...

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Billion-dollar Charlotte investor eyes Phoenix for tech investments

February 03, 2016

Phoenix Business Journal - Feb 2, 2016, 10:14pm MST  Frontier Capital LLC, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based growth equity investor with nearly $1 billion in assets under management, has its eye on the Phoenix market. The company invests in the software industry, making its debut last year with a $30 million investment in...

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How PlanetRisk Predicts the Future With Big Data

January 27, 2016

Big data is a window to the future if you have the right tools. Projecting any threats that might arise in the future and offering ways to stop them is exactly how McLean, V.A.-based PlanetRisk uses the power of advanced data collection, visualization and analysis. "It's a holistic look at...

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Startups Don't Need Unicorn Aspirations to Attract Investor Attention

January 04, 2016

Richard MacLean, Managing Partner at Frontier Capital and Contributor - Entrepreneur.com (December 30, 2015) Are unicorns real? That’s a question a lot of investors have to be asking themselves these days. To investors a "unicorn" refers to privately held companies with valuations of $1 billion or more. At last count, there are 145...

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InteliSecure Named Symantec's North American Managed Innovation Partner of the Year at 2015 Partner Engage Awards

December 08, 2015

DENVER, CO--(Marketwired - Dec 8, 2015) - InteliSecure, the leading managed security service provider (MSSP) delivering critical asset protection for enterprise organizations globally, today announced it has been recognized by Symantec Corporation as its North American Managed Innovation Partner of the Year. The honor was bestowed at Symantec's 2015 Partner Engage...

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HR Tech Conference Showcases “Fifth Inning” of SaaS, Other Trends in $10 Billion Industry

November 17, 2015

It’s hard to believe another HR Technology Conference has come and gone. As active investors in the broader HR software and services segment, it’s always incredibly insightful to mingle with innovative new companies, attend demonstrations of the latest HR tech/human capital management solutions and brainstorm strategies with our portfolio companies...

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GrowthCap’s Top 40 List Names Frontier Partner

October 07, 2015

Congratulations to Frontier Capital Partner Joel Lanik! Joel has been named as one of GrowthCap’s Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors for 2015. As a partner at Frontier Capital, Joel's primary focus is on the firm’s Managed IT and HCM Software and Services investment activities. He started his investing career...

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Viverae’s Impressive Growth in $6B Workplace Wellness Industry Recognized Nationally

September 21, 2015

Viverae, a workplace wellness provider based in Dallas, experienced an 86 percent increase in revenue in the last three years, a highly impressive growth rate that continues to draw attention on a national—and local—scale. In August, Viverae made the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest growing companies for the fifth...

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Frontier Extends Reach Into Healthcare, Revenue Cycle Management with Aviacode Investment

September 14, 2015

Frontier has long been interested in healthcare information systems, with portfolio companies focused on everything from health and data management software to online clinical research networks to various segments within Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). This last segment has been increasingly attractive for us, as the industry is expected to grow...

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It’s a Hat Trick! Aviacode Investment Marks Third in Utah, Third of the Summer and Third from New Fund

August 18, 2015

The wins are coming in threes for Frontier this summer! Today’s announcement of our $16 million investment in Aviacode marks the third investment in Utah (after NetDocuments and MultiLing), the third of the summer (after ECI, Tango) and the third from our new $390 million growth equity fund. Based in Salt...

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Frontier Capital’s Viverae Makes Fortune’s Best Places To Work List

July 31, 2015

Congratulations to Viverae, which just earned the 18th position on Fortune Magazine’s list of "Best Places to Work" in the healthcare industry! According to the magazine, Viverae's ranking is due to praise by the vast majority of its 315 employees who, in "this friendly, team-oriented workplace, are given a lot of responsibility,...

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Summer 2015 Shining Bright for Frontier Capital and Portfolio Companies

July 26, 2015

This summer is going especially well for Frontier Capital and our portfolio companies across the country! In addition to announcing the first two investments from our new Fund IV, ECI and Tango, several of our existing companies have announced record growth, big sales, new leaders and awards of excellence across...

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Frontier Adds Tango to Expanding List of Portfolio Companies

July 14, 2015

Frontier Capital continues to build momentum with a second investment in as many months out of their new Fund IV, L.P. The portfolio company, Tango, is based in Dallas—an area proving especially fruitful for Frontier who now has four software and technology-enabled business services companies in the region. Tango is...

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In the News: NetDocuments Shares Continued Growth Resulting from 2014 Frontier Capital Investment

June 18, 2015

In July 2014, Frontier Capital invested $25 million in Utah-based NetDocuments in 2014, a cloud-based document and email management company. Find out why in this feature from the Daily Herald, and how NetDocuments has benefited from the invested in the year since. AN ARK IN THE CLOUDS Lehi-based NetDocuments's cloud...

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Welcome to the Family, ECI!

June 04, 2015

Human Capital Management Provider Receives First Investment from New $390M Fund Frontier Capital is pleased to announce its investment in Electronic Commerce, Inc. Based in Elkhart, IN, ECI provides a fully unified, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software (SaaS) solution for the entire employee lifecycle. Frontier’s $40 million majority growth investment...

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HIMSS Grows Along with the Rise of IT Healthcare Solutions

May 08, 2015

The mega growth of IT healthcare solutions continues, as Frontier Capital experienced firsthand at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Chicago last month. This growth is obvious with this year’s conference drawing more than 40,000 attendees and 1,300+ exhibitors. After visiting more booths than we can count...

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Four Healthcare Trends Spur Innovative Technology Solutions

April 20, 2015

A main area of focus for Frontier Capital’s investment strategy is healthcare technology. Several factors make this an attractive market and Managing Partner Andrew Lindner and Principal Scott Hoch had an opportunity recently at an AON conference to discuss some of the healthcare trends and how technology companies can help minimize...

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2015 Trends: Cyber Security, Big Data and SaaS, Oh My

March 17, 2015

Last week’s Oasis: The Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica confirmed what we at Frontier Capital had been seeing this year: Cyber security, big data and back office cloud software for small and mid-market companies are the trends in big demand. Here’s more about what Scott Hoch, one of our principals...

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JP Morgan Healthcare Conference Perspective: It's all about the consumer

February 12, 2015

By Scott Hoch, principal, Frontier Capital The age of a consumer-driven healthcare system is upon us. Just ask the leading system providers, carriers and consulting firms who attended last month’s JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. This rapid transformation to a system where the consumer is driving health care decisions is...