Newport Beach, CA, October 17, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Learners Edge, has acquired the Teaching Channel, a subscription-based software platform where teachers can watch, share, and learn new techniques to improve student learning. Used in schools and districts across the country, the Teaching Channel allows teachers to personally direct their self-evaluation and ongoing learning; building their confidence in classroom instruction and boosting their joy of teaching and learning. “We are excited to add the Teaching Channel to the Learners Edge platform,” said Jeff Farrero, L Squared Managing Partner and Learners

Newport Beach, CA, August 22, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, FineLine Technologies Inc., has acquired Traderplus, a Durban, South Africa-based service bureau provider of barcode tags and labels. This merger leverages the two service bureau providers’ geographical reach and production capabilities. While FineLine offers 36-hour turn times to primarily North American and European retailers, Traderplus serves South Africa, Australia and China, as well as European markets, with quick turn production. Traderplus represents FineLine’s fourth acquisition since L Squared’s investment in November 2016. “We look forward to enhancing our product and service

Newport Beach, CA, August 1, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Virtium, has appointed Steve Litchfield to its Board of Directors. As the former the executive vice president and chief strategy officer of Microsemi Corporation, Litchfield’s experience sourcing and integrating strategic acquisitions will help Virtium expand its acquisition efforts. Virtium has experienced rapid growth, more than doubling topline revenue since L Squared invested three years ago and will now augment its strong organic growth with a more robust mergers-and-acquisitions (M&A) effort.  Through acquisitions, the company is seeking to add new product offerings

Newport Beach, CA, June 7, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce a growth investment in Kanopy, which represents L Squared’s eighth platform investment over the past four years.  Headquartered in San Francisco, Kanopy is a streaming video platform that offers millions of professors, students, and public library patrons free and convenient access to a unique collection of 30,000 highly curated films and documentaries. Kanopy has emerged as the leading destination for thoughtful educational entertainment with content ranging from award-winning independent films and documentaries to cinematic classics to engaging lifelong learning course modules. Kanopy’s CEO & Founder

Newport Beach, CA, June 26, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, United Scope, has acquired Euromex Optics Group, a Netherlands-based provider of optical microscopes, optical components and related accessories.  The transaction was both sourced and led by L Squared and represents another example of L Squared’s ability to complete accretive acquisitions across its portfolio companies.  L Squared continues to actively seek additional add-ons for United Scope serving the microscopy, lab accessories and related optical component markets. Euromex Optics Group has

Newport Beach, CA. – May 15, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners (“L Squared”) is pleased to announce that it has closed on the sale of Teaching Strategies.  Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of early childhood educational resources, including curriculum and web-based assessment products. Teaching Strategies was L Squared’s first platform investment, made in October 2014.  L Squared oversaw a variety of initiatives during its ownership period including the selection of an entirely new senior management team, the acquisition and integration of a key add-on investment, introducing a number of successful new products, and a major expansion of the sales

Newport Beach, CA, July 11, 2018 – Learners Edge, a portfolio company of L Squared Capital Partners, has acquired iteach, a nationally accredited provider of alternative educator certification.  The iteach program innovated online educator curriculum and helped more than 12,000 individuals get rewarding jobs as educators.  Both Learners Edge and iteach were built by teachers, for teachers, and will continue to create remarkable and relevant experiences that inspire future and current educators nationwide. “We are thrilled about our partnership with iteach,” said Jeff Farrero, L Squared Managing Partner.  “The merger will create large opportunities for Learners Edge to provide its award-winning continuing education

Newport Beach, CA, February 27, 2018 – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce a growth investment in United Scope, resulting in a majority recapitalization of the business.  United Scope represents L Squared’s seventh platform investment over the last three years. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Headquartered in Irvine, CA, United Scope goes to market primarily under the brand AmScope, which is the leading provider of microscopes and related accessories sold mostly online to a diverse range of end markets including the education sector, life sciences and other scientific research fields, as well as various industrial

Newport Beach, CA, May 16, 2017 –  L Squared Capital Partners (“L Squared”) and Oracle Elevator (“Oracle” or the “Company”), today announced that L Squared, together with Longview Asset Management, has partnered with Oracle management to recapitalize the Company.  Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Oracle represents L Squared’s sixth platform investment over the last three years.  Founded in 2004 with 22 branch locations across 13 states, Oracle is the largest independent provider of elevator maintenance, repair, and modernization services across all major brands of equipment.  L Squared’s investment provides a long-term capital base to support the Company’s

Newport Beach, CA, September 14, 2016 – We are pleased to announce the recapitalization of Learners Edge (the “Edge” or the “Company”).  Founded in 2002 and based in Lakeville, Minnesota, the Edge is a leading direct-to-teacher provider of online professional development, continuing education and master’s degree programs for K-12 teachers. Co-founded by two middle-school teachers, Joe Cotter and Kyle Pederson, the Company was established with the mission to advance educators’ skill, career paths, classroom instruction and, ultimately, student success by providing the most flexible, engaging and relevant professional development courses available. “We’re very excited about our partnership with L Squared” stated Joe

Newport Beach, CA – L Squared Capital Partners is pleased to announce a growth investment in Edlio.  Founded in 2011 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Edlio is a leading provider of cloud-based software to the K-12 market.  Built on a Software-as-a-Service platform, Edlio’s content management system facilitates connections and interaction among teachers, administrators, parents and students through a variety of different modules. The investment by L Squared will enable the company to further invest in sales and marketing, international growth, new product development and support strategic acquisitions across the education technology landscape. “We had the opportunity to partner with

Newport Beach, CA – L Squared Capital Partners (“L Squared”) is pleased to announce a growth investment in Virtium (the “Company”).  Founded in 1997 and based in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, Virtium is a leading provider of customized, ruggedized, and highly engineered industrial memory and embedded solid state drive (“SSD”) products to the industrial market.  In recent years, the Company has experienced significant growth as a result of increasing demand for highly customized memory and storage products.  The investment by L Squared will enable the Company to further invest in its product portfolio, firmware development and application engineering teams that