We Invest in
 
We Invest in

Investment Focus

Target Companies

  • Tech and Tech-enabled services businesses
  • $5-$50 million in revenue
  • High growth and demonstrated momentum
  • Repeatable sales processes
  • Capital efficient

What We Do

  • Invest $5-$20 million
  • Fund growth initiatives and/or provide liquidity
  • Partner with management teams to craft growth strategy and evaluate key strategic decisions
  • Primarily minority investors

About Us

Spring Lake Equity Partners is a Boston based firm investing in private technology companies. We seek to partner with great management teams to take their businesses to the next level, creating value for all stakeholders. Spring Lake strives to add value to our portfolio companies through active board participation, strategic planning, and accessing our network of contacts.

Spring Lake Equity Partners | Boston-based private venture capital firm

Team

Bob Florenza | Spring Lake Equity Partners | Boston-based private venture capital firm

Bob Forlenza

Managing Partner

Bob is a founding partner of Spring Lake Equity Partners. Prior to founding Spring Lake, Bob served as Managing Partner of Tudor Investment Corporation’s private equity group, the predecessor to Spring Lake, for nearly two decades. He has served on the Board of Directors of numerous companies including Art Technology Group, Classic Sports Network, Wired, and Intelligrated. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of CLARA Analytics, Cognition, Phoenix ET and Unacast. Prior to joining Tudor, he was a Vice President at Carlisle Capital, a leveraged buyout firm based in Boston where he played a key role in the acquisition and management of several plastics companies which were consolidated to form Carlisle Plastics, a diversified plastics company that was taken public on the New York Stock Exchange.

Bob was also an executive with the American Management Company, a start-up software company which developed and marketed systems management software for mini-computers. Bob initially served as Chief Financial Officer and was later appointed Chief Executive Officer and led a successful effort to sell the company to a strategic acquirer. Bob was also a management consultant with Bain & Company at which he worked in a variety of industries including communications services, financial services and information technology. Bob earned a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Business Administration from Washington and Lee University.

Carmen Scarpa | Spring Lake Equity Partners | Boston-based private venture capital firm

Carmen Scarpa

Managing Partner

Carmen is a founding partner of Spring Lake Equity Partners. Prior to founding Spring Lake, Carmen served as a Partner in Tudor Investment Corporation’s private equity group, the predecessor to Spring Lake, since 1996. Carmen has focused on growth companies in the software, internet/digital media, business services and financial technologies sectors. He currently sits on the boards of NetBase Quid, One Door and Testlio. Prior investments where Carmen served as a director or was actively involved include Astadia, Art Technology Group, Dorado Systems, Chordiant Software, GAIN Capital, ShoeBuy, TractManager, Velocity, Vurv, and Wimba. Carmen worked previously as an associate at Triumph Capital Group, Inc., a private equity firm in Boston. Prior to that, he was an assistant to the founder and CEO of Boston Concessions Group and was a corporate finance analyst for Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. Carmen earned a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Economics from Harvard University.

Portfolio

Current Portfolio

Past Experience

News

November 29, 2022 in News

Zylo Secures $31.5M Series C to Help Companies Reduce SaaS Costs and Operationalize Renewals

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November 24, 2022 in News

Ciena Makes Strategic Acquisitions in Fiber Broadband Access to Further Address Growing Opportunity at the Network Edge

Announces Intent to Acquire Tibit Communications and Acquisition of Benu Networks HANOVER, Md., U.S.A — November 22, 2022 Ciena® Corporation (NYSE: CIEN), a networking systems, services and software company, today announced…
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September 16, 2022 in News

SOC Telemed Expands Behavioral Health Offering with Acquisition of Forefront Telecare  

SOC Telemed Expands Behavioral Health Offering with Acquisition of Forefront Telecare  September 1, 2022 (Dallas, TX) — SOC Telemed, the largest national provider of specialty acute care telemedicine, announced its…
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February 2, 2022 in News

Espresso Capital provides Gravy Analytics with a $10 million credit facility fueling new growth and market expansion

Dulles, Virginia — January 18, 2022 — Espresso Capital announced today that it has provided Gravy Analytics, a leading provider of enterprise location intelligence, with a $10 million credit facility. In conjunction…
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