Portfolio
During the past 25 years, Sterling Partners has invested in nearly 45 companies that span a variety of industry segments and stages of development. In each of these investments, we have applied a disciplined and selective approach. We collaborate closely with our management partners to stimulate and sustain significant growth.
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Active Day
Active Day is a national network of adult care facilities.
AIX
AIX is a specialty property and casualty program manager.
Ameritox
Ameritox is a full service forensic toxicology laboratory.
Argent Trading
Argent Trading is a corporate barter firm that provides innovative financial solutions to large companies to recover and realize value from impaired assets.
Artromick International
Artromick International is a leading provider of medication management services and technology.
Atlantic Industrial
Atlantic Industrial provides industrial services to refineries, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.
Atlantic Premium Brands
Atlantic Premium Brands is a supplier of specialty premium food products.
Avectra
Avectra is the leading provider of enterprise and on-demand membership management software solutions.
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The Becker Group
The Becker Group is a leading experiential marketing company.
Block Testing Services
Block Testing Services is engaged in the development, sale, and administration of exams for licensed contractors in the construction industry.
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Centerre Healthcare
Centerre Healthcare is a leader in physical rehabilitation.
Chauncey Group
The Chauncey Group is a leading provider of certification and licensing examinations for professionals, businesses, and government.
Cognitive Concepts
Cognitive Concepts is an industry leader providing comprehensive literacy learning solutions.
Connections Academy
Connections Academy operates "virtual schools" under management contracts from state charter schools and school districts.
Creative Merchandise Services
Pre-Fund.
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DDM
DDM is the leading provider of behavioral healthcare services for people dually diagnosed with both a mental health and substance abuse disorder.
DRIFIRE
DRIFIRE develops, manufactures and markets Performance Flame Resistant (“FR”) Wear to the US military, foreign militaries and commercial markets world-wide.
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Ecom Group
Ecom Group is a leading business-to-business distributor of specialty light bulbs for a variety of industries including education and healthcare.
Ecovation
Ecovation is an environmental services company with proprietary technology to clean organic waste streams.
eCredit
eCredit provides on-demand software for credit risk management and collection services for Fortune 1000 companies.
Educate Corporate Centers Holdings, Inc.
Educate Corporate Centers Holdings, Inc. owns the 230 corporate-operated Sylvan Learning Centers.
Educate Online, Inc.
Educate Online, which includes Catapult Online and eSylvan, is the leading provider of live instruction facilitated exclusively via the internet.
Educate, Inc.
Educate, includes the operations of Sylvan Learning franchises, Schulerhilfe, Ivy West, and Catapult Traditional Learning business units.
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Focus Products Group
Focus Products Group designs, markets, and manufactures functionally superior housewares, bakeware, personal care, storage systems, and kitchen electrics.
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Gibbon Packing
Gibbon Packing Company was a meatpacking and processing business with facilities in Iowa and Nebraska.
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The InfiLaw System
The InfiLaw System is a consortium of independent, community based law schools.
International Collectors Society
International Collectors Society is a direct marketing company that specializes in collectible postage stamps, coins, and three-dimensional products.
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KnowledgeStorm
KnowledgeStorm is the most comprehensive database of information on the web related to information technology.
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Laureate Education, Inc.
Laureate provides a superior university experience for full-time and working-adult students worldwide through its leading international network of accredited campus-based and online universities.
Liberty Propane
Liberty Propane acquires and operates retail propane distribution companies in multiple regions of the United States.
LifeCard Internationl
Pre-Fund.
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Meritas
Meritas serves as the holding company for a network of premium and proprietary K-12 schools.
MetroGroup
MetroGroup offers a wide range of direct marketing and related business services.
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National Library of Poetry
National Library of Poetry was a direct marketing company that published anthologies of poetry and related products.
New Century Arizona
New Century operated AM and FM radio stations in the Phoenix, AZ, market.
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Omega Acquisition
Omega Acquisition manufactures, markets, and distributes products for photographers including its own brand of photographic enlargers.
Optimer, Inc
Optimer, Inc is an advanced materials research, development and testing laboratory in Wilmington, DE.
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Paradigm Management Services
Paradigm is the leading provider of managed care services for persons with catastrophic injuries from the workplace.
Professional Career Development Institute
PCDI is a worldwide leader in distance education.
Progressus Therapy
Progressus Therapy is the leading provider of school-based and early intervention therapy services.
Prospect Mortgage
Prospect is a retail mortgage consolidation business focused on the prime market.
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Remedi SeniorCare
Long Term Care Pharmacy.
Rittenhouse Senior Living
Rittenhouse is an owner and operator of senior housing facilities.
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Safety Systems
Safety Systems supplies equipment and services to military and law enforcement agencies.
The SAVO Group
The SAVO Group is the industry's leading provider of sales enablement solutions.
Smart Student / FastWeb
Smart Student, which was merged into FastWeb in 1999, is a college-student assistance website.
Smarterville, Inc.
Smarterville, (Educate Products) creates, manufactures, and sells educational products.
Sterilmed
SterilMed is the leading third-party reprocessor of single-use medical devices.
Sterling Communications
Sterling Communication was formed to acquire a group of five radio stations in the southeastern US.
Sterling Radio Development
Sterling Radio Development invested in radio stations located near major markets.
Superior Learning Systems
Superior Learning Systems operates Sylvan franchises in select US markets.
Sylvan Learning Systems
Sylvan Learning Systems is engaged in a broad range of educational activities, including student tutorial services as well as adult testing and training.
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Tango Communications
Tango Communications was formed to acquire, consolidate, and grow three existing early-stage businesses engaged in computer telephony.
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VISICU
VISICU provides proprietary technology for remote monitoring of intensive care units.
Vocus
Vocus develops on-demand software for corporate communications and public relations.
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WB Acquisition
WB Acquisition consisted of a meat packing business and a processed meat business.