Media Company | Private Equity Owner | Initial Acquisition or Investment Year | B2B or B2C | EV at Investment | Notes |
Boat International Media | Pembroke VCT & Lepe Capital | January 2014 | B2C | $12.5m | |
ALM | EagleTree Capital | June 2014 | B2B | $417m | |
Arizent | Observer Capital | August 2014 | B2B | | Used to be called Source Media |
Ensemble IQ | RFE Investment Partners | February 2016 | B2B | | |
Argus | General Atlantic | May 2016 | B2B | $1.45B | |
HW Media | Riomar Capital | May 2016 | B2B | | FKA HousingWire |
Bisnow | Wicks Group | May 2016 | B2B | | |
Northstar Travel | EagleTree Capital | June 2016 | B2B | | |
Randall Reilly | Aurora Capital Partners | June 2017 | B2B | | |
Clarion Events | Blackstone | July 2017 | B2B | | |
Becker’s Healthcare | Pamlico Capital | July 2017 | B2B | | |
Endeavor Business Media | Resolute | May 2018 | B2B | | |
PEI Group | Bridgepoint Capital | June 2018 | B2B | Rumor: $160m investment | |
AC Business | Boyne Capital | August 2018 | B2B | | |
Questex | MidOcean Partners | September 2018 | B2B | | |
MeatEater | TCG | October 2018 | B2C | | |
Bobit | Gemspring Capital | November 2018 | B2B | | |
Nineteen | Phoenix Equity | November 2018 | B2B | | |
CyberRisk Alliance | Growth Catalyst Partners | November 2018 | B2B | | |
CloserStill | Providence Equity | December 2018 | B2B | | |
Zonda | MidOcean Partners | December 2018 | B2B | | FKA Hanley Wood |
Axel Springer | KKR | August 2019 | B2C | $7.3B | |
Golden Peak Media | Macanta Investments | August 2019 | B2C | | |
Food52 | TCG | September 2019 | B2C | | |
GovExec | Growth Catalyst Partners | March 2020 | B2B | | |
Adweek | Shamrock Capital | June 2020 | B2B | | |
Bridge Tower Media | Transom Capital | November 2020 | B2B | | |
Surfline | TCG | December 2020 | B2C | | |
Hodinkee | TCG | December 2020 | B2C | | |
Arc | EagleTree Capital | May 2021 | B2B | | |
Foundry | Blackstone | June 2021 | B2B | $1.3B | FKA IDG |
Inman Group | Beringer Capital | July 2021 | B2B | | |
My Code | Falfurrias Capital | August 2021 | B2C | | FKA H Code |
Yahoo | Apollo | September 2021 | B2C | $5B | |
HealthCentral Corporation | Amulet Capital Partners | September 2021 | B2C | | FKA Remedy Health Media |
Benzinga | Beringer Capital | October 2021 | B2C | | |
The Channel Co. | EagleTree Capital | November 2021 | B2B | | |
Epic Gardening | TCG | January 2022 | B2C | | |
Delinian | Epirus | July 2022 | B2B | ~$1.76B | As part of Euromoney split |
FastMarkets | Astorg | July 2022 | B2B | ~$132M | As part of Euromoney split |
JetNet | Silversmith | July 2022 | B2B | | |
WTWH Media | Mountaingate Capital | January 2023 | B2B | | |
Hyve Events | Providence Equity & Searchlight Capital | June 2023 | B2B | ~$638M | |