Investment Summary

Falconhead Capital Exits GPSI Holdings

On October 31, 2017, IR invested in technology hardware company GPSI Holdings from Falconhead Capital

Investment Highlights
  • This is IR’s 1st transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is IR’s 15th transaction in the United States.
  • This is IR’s 2nd transaction in Florida.

Investment Summary

Date 2017-10-31
Target GPSI Holdings
Sector Technology Hardware
Investor(s) IR
Sellers(s) Falconhead Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

GPSI Holdings

Sarasota, Florida, United States
GPSI Holdings LLC is a developer, manufacturer and seller of a new and refurbished cart-mounted GPS distance measurement devices along with the related infrastructure for use with golf course operations, and provides service required to properly maintain the units. GPSI Holdings was founded in 20009 and is based in Sarasota, Florida.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

IR

Davidson, North Carolina, United States

Category Company
Founded 1859
Sector Machinery
Employees18,000
Revenue 7.2B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Ingersoll Rand's corporate headquarters in Davidson, North Carolina.
Ingersoll Rand's corporate headquarters in Davidson, North Carolina.

IR manufactures engineered products including compressors, liquid ring pumps and blowers for various industrial, medical, environmental, transportation and process applications, pumps used in the petroleum and industrial market segments and other fluid transfer equipment, such as loading arms and dry break couplers, serving chemical, petroleum and food industries. IR was founded in 1859 and is based in Davidson, Wisconsin.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 21 of 53
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 20 of 46
State: Florida M&A 2 of 3
Country: United States M&A 15 of 28
Year: 2017 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-06-07 Rotary Compression Technologies

Sidney, Ohio, United States

Rotary Compression Technologies, Inc. (LeROI Compressors) is a manufacturer of gas compression equipment and solutions for vapor recovery, biogas and other process and industrial applications.

Buy $20M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-11-20 CALMAC

Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States

CALMAC Corp. is specializing in thermal energy storage solutions. CALMAC was founded in 1947 and is based in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Falconhead Capital

New York, New York, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1998
PE ASSETS 500M USD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Falconhead Capital is a private equity firm focused on making control investments in lower middle-market companies in the consumer, leisure/lifestyle and media sectors that benefit from the growing number of consumers with a higher standard of living. Falconhead seeks to invest $10 to $100 million per transaction and in conjunction with co-investors can invest up to $100 million. Prospective businesses should have revenues of $20 to $150 million and $5 to $30 million of EBITDA. Falconhead Capital was formed in 1998 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 11 of 11
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 3
State: Florida M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 9 of 9
Year: 2017 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-01-19 Kwik Tek

Denver, Colorado, United States

Kwik Tek, Inc. is a designer and supplier of outdoor branded products for the recreational watersports and winter sports markets. Its product line includes towables, inflatables, life jackets, wakeboards, kneeboards, snowshoes, trekking poles, snow sleds, pool floats, lounge items, and related accessories. Kwik Tek supplies products through their trusted consumer brands including Airhead, Sportsstuff, and Yukon Charlie's. Aaron Kramer, founder, CEO and President of Kwik Tek said, "I am excited to be partnering with Falconhead Capital and M3 Outdoor. Their market expertise makes them the perfect partners to help ensure that even more people can enjoy our exciting products.

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