'Mankwitz Kurtz Investments hires Software Equity Group to assess strategic alternatives for Isera'
Mankwitz Kurtz Investments (“MKI”), a private equity firm headquartered in Colorado, has hired San Diego investment banking firm Software Equity Group to assess strategic alternatives for its portfolio company Isera Group, LLC.
Over the last four years under MKI’s ownership, Isera has doubled its revenues, enhanced its state of the art software products and greatly expanded its customer list to include several branches of the US Military, foreign militaries, municipalities, many of the world’s leading defense contractors as well several emergency medical service companies and other global corporations.
About Isera Group, LLC:
Isera Group, LLC is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California and develops and commercializes sophisticated software to perform complex scheduling and resource management and optimization functions for the domestic and international military, government, emergency services and commercial sectors. No formidable scheduling competitors currently exist in this marketplace and the barriers to entry to compete with Isera in this industry are significant. The Company’s software provides customers with an integrated solution to significantly improve efficiency and reduce costs. In addition to providing a robust alternative to manual scheduling and resource management, the software incorporates complex optimization technology that allows users to optimize the allocation of personnel, equipment, instructors and all other resources to maximize operational efficiencies. The products are used to ensure organizations are able to have the right person with the right equipment at the right place and time. Leading militaries and businesses worldwide use Isera software to save time, save money and improve effectiveness. Whether ground, air or afloat, the management of training and operational events needed to achieve optimized readiness is a complex and challenging task and scheduling is at the heart of the solution. Isera’s technology solves this problem by addressing every aspect of the problem, from capturing data, to processing, to identifying conflicts, to providing alternative scenario evaluations and delivering tools for decision making analysis.
About Software Equity Group, LLC:
Software Equity Group is the nation’s premier merger and acquisitions advisory serving privately held software companies, e-businesses and IT service providers. Founded in 1992, Software Equity Group has advised and guided more than 400 software companies in the United States, Europe, Pacific-Asia and Israel.
About Mankwitz Kurtz Investments, LLC:
Mankwitz Kurtz Investments is a private equity firm that acquires controlling interests in middle market companies and enhances their value with the intent of selling the businesses within five years. MKI seeks situations where its years of management and financial expertise would be utilized in the strategic direction and business decisions of the company.
MKI has an extensive history of private equity successes and the resources available to capitalize on future opportunities.
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