The Riverside Company

Riverside operates dedicated sourcing teams for add-on acquisitions, using these smaller bolt-on deals to drive geographic expansion and operational improvement within existing platform companies. The firm has publicly stated that add-ons are a central component of its value-creation approach, with recent examples including TrustSkills for Cryptomathic and CityReporter for Cloudpermit (per the firm).

Riverside runs dual investment structures: a traditional private equity fund series alongside a flexible capital vehicle. The private equity arm focuses on control buyouts and recapitalizations, while flexible capital targets debt and structured equity for companies seeking non-control growth financing. Both strategies target the smaller end of the middle market.

Riverside invests across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The firm has a particularly established presence in Australia and New Zealand, where it recently completed its 50th investment. Other confirmed regions include the United States and markets sourced through its Cleveland and New York offices.

According to its own disclosures, Riverside pursues buyout, divestiture, expansion and late-stage, growth, PIPE, and recapitalization transactions. The firm positions itself as a buyer and builder at the smaller end of the middle market, seeking companies that benefit from operational resources and follow-on acquisitions.

The firm names business services, consumer, education and training, franchisors, healthcare, software and IT, and specialty manufacturing as its core industries. It also conducts thematic investing — evaluating opportunities around long-term secular trends — but does not publish a list of excluded sectors.