Investment Summary

Escalate Capital and Crawley Ventures Invest In GutCheck

On June 14, 2013, mezzanine finance firm Escalate Capital and private equity firm Crawley Ventures invested in internet software and services company GutCheck

Investment Highlights
  • This is Escalate Capital’s 7th and Crawley Ventures’ 2nd transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Escalate Capital’s 23rd and Crawley Ventures’ 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Escalate Capital’s 2nd and Crawley Ventures’ 2nd transaction in Colorado.
Investment Fate
  • GutCheck was sold to a strategic buyer in 2022.

Investment Summary

Date 2013-06-14
Target GutCheck
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) Escalate Capital
Crawley Ventures
Deal Type Venture

Target

GutCheck

Denver, Colorado, United States
GutCheck is an online agile market research solution that enables clients to get quick consumer reads to address business questions, whenever they need to be answered. GutCheck was founded in 2009 and is based in Denver, Colorada.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Escalate Capital

Austin, Texas, United States

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Category Mezzanine Finance Firm
Founded 2005
PE ASSETS 830M USD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Escalate Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on providing capital to expansion and late-stage companies. The Firm focuses its investment activity within the technology, life sciences, and service-based industries. Prospective financing solutions include senior, subordinated and mezzanine debt. Escalate's target investment size is $5 to $30 million. Escalate Capital Partners has offices in Menlo Park, California and Austin, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 23 of 39
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 7 of 11
Type: Venture M&A Deals 13 of 17
State: Colorado M&A 2 of 3
Country: United States M&A 23 of 39
Year: 2013 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-01-22 Tebra

Corona Del Mar, California, United States

Tebra is a provider of cloud-based solutions for independent medical practices. Tebra offers an integrated solution of products and services designed to help physicians get paid faster, find new patients, run their business smarter, and provide better care. Tebra was founded in 2004 and is based in Corona Del Mar, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-25 Century Payments

Frisco, Texas, United States

Century Payments, Inc. is a provider of payment processing programs for merchants. The company offers electronic payment processing products and services that help business owners to accept various forms of payments. It also provides consulting services to facilitate agreements for large national merchants, including restaurant chains, airlines, hotels, consumer electronics manufacturers, and retailers.

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Investor

Crawley Ventures

Denver, Colorado, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Crawley Ventures is the investment arm of Crawley Petroleum and was formed to make direct investments in private companies as well as investments in venture and hedge funds. Crawley primarily looks to invest in growth companies at various stages of development, including seed, early, and expansion stage businesses. Crawley looks to commit $250k to $1.5 million per transaction. Sectors of interest include optics, financial services, software, manufacturing, and wireless technology. Crawley Ventures was founded in 1995 and is based in Denver, Colorado.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 10
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Venture M&A Deals 2 of 6
State: Colorado M&A 2 of 5
Country: United States M&A 3 of 10
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-05 Collective Intellect

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Collective Intellect is a social media analytics company. Collective Intellect’s cloud-based social intelligence solutions enable organizations to monitor, understand and respond to consumers’ conversations on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-14 CertiPath

Reston, Virginia, United States

CertiPath specializes in federated high assurance digital identity credentials and public key infrastructure tools & services for the Federal Government and the defense and finance industries. CertiPath develops and promotes ground-breaking technologies and services that enable the use of high assurance credentials in a wide variety of use cases for enterprise-wide physical and logical security. CertiPath was founded in 2004 and is based in Reston, Virginia.

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