Portfolio
During the past 25 years, Sterling Partners has invested in 56 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 Group, Inc. is a property and casualty insurance holding company with executive offices in Windsor, CT, that provides services through its wholly owned subsidiaries: Nova Casualty Company, an A- rated property and casualty insurance company that is licensed in all 50 states, and AIX Specialty Insurance Company, a non-admitted company domiciled in Delaware.
Ameritox
Ameritox is a full-service forensic toxicology laboratory that offers RxGuardian, the most thorough and personalized lab monitoring process available and the only report that can help physicians assess whether a patient is taking pain medications consistent with the prescribed dosage.
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 provider of medication management services and technology. The company is the leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of medication costs and related drug and medical supply distribution systems.
Ashworth
Ashworth is a leading provider of secondary and post-secondary online education programs to more than 50,000 students.
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. The company completed an initial public offering in 1993.
Avectra
Avectra is the leading provider of enterprise and on-demand membership management software solutions. Avectra’s solutions serve more than 40 million individuals and 750 member-based organizations.
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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.
Cornerstone Records
Cornerstone Records provides secure document storage, document destruction, media vaulting, online backup, imaging, and services to the smallest and largest business, legal, medical, accounting, financial, and real estate organizations.
Creative Merchandise Services
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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.
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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 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, and Ivy West and Corporate-owned centers. Sylvan is North America’s leading provider of personalized tutoring programs to students in grades pre-K – 12.
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FiveWire Media
FiveWire Media intends to own and operate media assets, taking advantage of the dislocation in advertising and traditional media, as well as in the credit markets, to buy assets at attractive prices.
Foundation Group Partners
Foundation offers funeral merchandise and services, cemetery merchandise and services, and cemetery property interment rights.
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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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i/o Data Centers
i/o Data Centers designs, builds, and operates world class data centers providing conditioned, uninterruptible power available in internet-connected data center suites and colocation facilities to Information Technology departments of businesses and governments.
The InfiLaw System
The InfiLaw System is a consortium of independent, community-based law schools. InfiLaw includes Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, FL, Phoenix School of Law in Phoenix, AZ, and Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte, NC.
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 traditional and working adult students worldwide through its leading international network of accredited campus-based and online universities.
The Léman International School -- Chengdu
The Léman International School- Chengdu is an international kindergarten through twlfth grade school in China.
Liberty Propane
Liberty Propane acquires and operates retail propane distribution companies in multiple regions of the United States.
Livingston International
Livingston International is the leading North American provider of customs brokerage services. In addition to customer brokerage, Livingston provides transportation and integrated logistics services.
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Meritas
Meritas serves as the holding company for a network of premium and proprietary K – 12 schools. Meritas operates schools in the U.S., Latin America and Europe, with its first Asian school scheduled to open later this year.
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 Brands
Optimer Brands is a holding company that identifies, manages, improves, and exits companies which possess unique textile-technology differentiation.
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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
As the leading education solutions provider, Progressus partners with school districts to identify their needs and bring creative solutions including credentialed staff and innovative service delivery programs.
Prospect Mortgage
Prospect Mortgage is a retail mortgage consolidation business focused on the prime market.
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Remedi SeniorCare
Remedi SeniorCare is a long term care pharmacy.
Rittenhouse Senior Living
Rittenhouse is an owner and operator of senior housing facilities.
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The SAVO Group
The SAVO Group is the industry's leading provider of sales enablement solutions.
School of Rock
School of Rock is the leading national brand for performance-based music education for children 7 to 18 years old. With 49 schools and a strong nationally recognized brand, the Company is the largest after school provider in the fragmented music education industry.
Select Comfort
Select Comfort designs, manufactures, markets and supports a line of adjustable-firmness mattresses featuring air-chamber technology, branded the Sleep Number® bed, as well as foundations and bedding accessories.
Smart Student / FastWeb
Smart Student, which was merged into FastWeb in 1999, is a college-student assistance website.
Smarterville, Inc.
Smarterville is a leading provider of branded, supplemental educational products and solutions.
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.




























































