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VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a leading lower middle market focused private investment firm specializing in flexible capital solutions for founder-led businesses, today announced it was ranked #1 in three categories by PitchBook, an independent data provider, in its 2025 Global Manager Performance Score League Tables: Global Private Debt, Global Mezzanine, and North America Private Debt (as of December 31, 2025, and published on July 28, 2026).
By VSS · Via Business Wire · August 13, 2026
VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a leading middle market focused private investment firm specializing in flexible capital solutions for founder-led businesses, announced today the completion of a significant growth investment in Cordoba, LLC. (“Cordoba” or “the Company”), one of the nation’s recognized leaders in engineering, construction and program management serving municipalities, public agencies and institutional customers across the Pacific Coast. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · August 10, 2026
VSS Capital Partners ("VSS"), a leading private investment firm specializing in the tech-enabled business services, education and healthcare sectors, today announced that it has realized its investment in Centroid Systems (“Centroid” or the” Company”), a leading technology services company focused on Oracle Cloud solutions for middle-market and enterprise clients. Financial details of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · July 15, 2026
VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a leading private investment firm specializing in the healthcare, education, and business services sectors, today announced two key appointments reinforcing the firm’s commitment to operational excellence and investor engagement.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · September 3, 2025
VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, business services, and education industries, is pleased to announce the hire of Jason Adams as Principal. Adams will take a lead role in sourcing new investment opportunities, performing due diligence, and supporting portfolio company management teams to help drive value creation.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · August 20, 2025
VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced that it was recognized as #1 in PitchBook’s 2024 Global Mezzanine and North America Private Debt categories. VSS also secured the #2 ranking in PitchBook’s Global Private Debt category, with three rankings from its Global Manager Performance Score League Tables through December 31, 2024.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · August 6, 2025
VSS Capital Partners ("VSS"), a lower middle market focused private investment firm that for over 30 years has partnered with founders and management teams of companies to support their growth, today announced that its portfolio company, The HFW Companies ("HFW"), has completed the acquisition of its 10th strategic growth partner to its own platform. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · May 8, 2025

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced the completion of a new platform investment in Lumenci, Inc. (“Lumenci” or “the Company”), a full-service intellectual property (“IP”) consulting firm, in association with Century Equity Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · December 18, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, is pleased to announce that Pinnacle Investment Management Group Limited (ASX: PNI) (“Pinnacle”) has made a strategic minority investment in the firm. Concurrently, VSS has expanded its Partnership and leadership team, elevating four seasoned senior professionals to Partners. The four executives - Trent Hickman, Patrick Turner, Andrew Goscinski, and David Fann - join Jeffrey Stevenson, Managing Partner, as shareholders of VSS Capital Partners.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · November 20, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced that it has completed a growth capital investment in Lane Four Consulting (“Lane Four” or the “Company”), a consulting partner to North American growth companies that seek to optimize and scale their go-to market operations using Salesforce. Lane Four’s founder and CEO, Andrew Sinclair, maintains a majority interest in the Company. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · October 31, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced that it has completed a platform investment in Treya Partners (“Treya” or “the company”), a management consulting firm specializing in procurement value creation, strategic sourcing, and spend management advisory services for mid-market private equity-backed corporate clients. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · October 7, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, announced that David Fann has joined the firm as Senior Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations. Mr. Fann brings vast experience, having held executive leadership roles in private market firms that have invested over $50 billion in private equity and private credit for institutional investors. He joins VSS from Apogem Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Investment Management, where he was a Vice Chairman.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · August 27, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, is pleased to announce that it was ranked #2 for all private debt funds globally, according to PitchBook’s 2023 Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, as of December 31, 2023 and published on July 30, 2024.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · August 14, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, business services, and education industries, today announced that its portfolio company, Olympus Cosmetic Group (“Olympus”), a platform providing comprehensive cosmetic surgery, dermatological treatments and non-surgical cosmetic procedures, has completed the acquisition of Artisan Plastic Surgery and Artisan Beauté (collectively “Artisan” or the “Company”), a female-founded and managed cosmetic surgery and medspa enterprise. While financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, VSS made an additional investment to support Olympus’ first acquisition.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · May 8, 2024

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced that it has made a growth capital investment in Olympus Cosmetic Group (“the Company” or “Olympus”), a newly formed platform providing comprehensive cosmetic surgery, dermatological treatments and non-surgical cosmetic procedures. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · June 13, 2023

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm that targets the healthcare, education, and tech-enabled business services industries, today announced that it has realized its investment in GreenSlate Holdings, LLC (GreenSlate or “the Company”), a leading cloud-based provider of payroll, production accounting, tax incentives and health benefits for the entertainment industry. While financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, VSS also re-invested in the Company alongside new investor Francisco Partners and GreenSlate’s management team.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · February 10, 2023

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in healthcare, business services and education, announced today that it has completed a partial sale of its interest in Really Great Reading, LLC (“RGR” or “the Company”), a national, leading provider of scientifically-aligned literacy curriculum for students in grades pre-K through high school, to funds managed by The Vistria Group. While financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, VSS will continue to own a minority stake in RGR following the realization of its investment and continue to serve on the Company’s board.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · February 6, 2023

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm that targets the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced the successful final close of VSS Structured Capital Fund IV (“VSS SC IV”) at $530 million, exceeding its target of $400 million. The fund received strong support from existing as well as new institutional investors, including insurers, pensions, asset managers, foundations, endowments and select family offices.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · December 14, 2022

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, education, and business services industries, today announced it has made an investment in Center for Rheumatology (“CFR” or “the Company”), a rheumatology platform with a comprehensive suite of offerings that treat a variety of chronic rheumatic illnesses. Founder Dr. Arash Horizon, a well-known board-certified rheumatologist, will continue leading the company through its next phase of growth. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · October 13, 2022

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, business services, and education industries, is pleased to announce the hire of Brad Corbin as Principal. Mr. Corbin will work collaboratively with the VSS investment team to source new investment opportunities, perform due diligence and support portfolio company management teams to help drive value creation.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · September 14, 2022

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, business services and education industries, today announced the addition of Eric Kim as Principal and Sai Parepally as Vice President, respectively. Leveraging their experience in the healthcare, IT, and financial services sectors, the executives will work collaboratively with VSS’ investment professionals to source new transactions, perform due diligence and support portfolio company management teams.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · July 27, 2022

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in healthcare, business services and education, today announced the addition of W. Preston Hutchings as Senior Advisor. Leveraging his three decades of senior insurance, investment management and executive leadership experience, Mr. Hutchings will provide strategic guidance and work closely with VSS’s team in this role.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · July 12, 2022

Centroid Systems, LLC (“Centroid”) has completed the acquisition of Guardian Eagle (“Guardian Eagle” or the “Company”), a consulting provider of data security headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida with experienced database professionals located remotely throughout the United States. Founded in 2003, Guardian Eagle specializes in securing customers’ data from the inside out, database security, business continuity, replication, and performance tuning.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · June 14, 2022

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, business services, and education industries, today announced the appointment of Dean Pernisie as a Strategic Partner at the firm. Mr. Pernisie will join the firm’s Senior Advisors, where he will help lead new investment opportunities in healthcare services.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · February 2, 2022

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, today announced its partnership with The HFW Companies (“HFW” or the “Company”), a newly formed platform and partnership focused on investing in architecture, engineering, and construction (“AEC”) services firms. Concurrently, HFW is pleased to introduce its first member firm – Miller Legg, an award-winning multi-disciplinary engineering and consulting firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Financial terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · November 9, 2021

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the healthcare, information, business services and education industries, today announced that it has completed the sale of Coretelligent (“the Company”) to Norwest Equity Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Coretelligent is a leading provider of comprehensive managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services to customers within the financial services, life sciences, professional services, and related sectors. VSS will participate in Coretelligent’s next phase of growth as a minority investor in the Company.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · October 25, 2021

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the business services, healthcare, information, and education industries, announced that it sold Tax Credit Co. (“TCC” or the “Company”), a national provider of tax incentive, employment verification and human resource technology-enabled services, to Experian. The acquisition of TCC supports Experian’s newly formed Employer Services business.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · June 16, 2021

VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a private investment firm investing in the business services, healthcare, education and information industries, and Centroid Systems Inc. (“Centroid” or the” Company”), a provider of managed cloud-services and enterprise workload consulting services, today announced that VSS has completed a significant growth investment in the Company. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
By VSS · Via Business Wire · May 26, 2021
