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🚀 Clearhaven Partners successfully raises $580 million for second fund - The private equity firm is based in Boston, led by founder and managing partner Michelle Noon maintains a staff of 19. Senior team: Kevin Wood, Operating Partner & Co-Founder, Christopher Ryan, Managing Partner. - Michelle Noon stated: "Our goal is to build healthy, intrinsically viable businesses that will attract the right acquirer at whatever time makes the most sense for the company." - Clearhaven typically focuses on majority investments but occasionally makes "significant" minority investments. - The firm specializes in backing lower middle market software and technology companies with strong growth prospects. - The fund's target companies generally have revenues ranging from $20 million to $100 million. - Clearhaven currently manages six active portfolio companies: Engageware, Wowza, PhotoShelter, SundaySky, AVOXI, Korbyt. - The inaugural $312 million fund was closed in 2021, two years after the firm's launch by Noon, previously with Riverside Partners. - Despite Fund II being significantly larger, Clearhaven plans to invest in a comparable number of companies, targeting six to nine, with capital reserved for follow-on investments. - Clearhaven Partners remains optimistic about its position, citing being in "build mode" amid challenges in the private equity exit market.

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