October 13, 2021

Next Sparc Growth Partners Selects DealCloud As Its Technology Infrastructure

By: James Carey

Next Sparc Growth Partners, a Cleveland-based professional family office making direct investments in rapidly growing founder-led and family-owned businesses, has selected DealCloud to help its teams track active deals and portfolio companies, drive relationship management, and optimize staffing.

“As the private equity and family office space continues to grow and evolve, it’s more important than ever to employ sophisticated technology solutions like DealCloud,” said James Carey, Partner and Head of Business Development at Next Sparc. “DealCloud is built for private investment firms, and we believe it will significantly improve the effectiveness of our firm’s business development and marketing initiatives while also providing meaningful insight into our relationship management endeavors.”

Founded in 2009, Next Sparc is guided by an investment philosophy that promotes building exceptional businesses and teams for the long term and accelerating lasting, sustainable growth, rather than focusing on short-term exit strategies. The firm builds partnerships with like-minded individuals who are ready to discover how value-added expertise and proven best practices can be the indelible “Sparc” that takes their businesses to the next level.

“We’re excited to be working with Next Sparc as it continues to strategically and significantly grow its portfolio across multiple industries,” said Ben Harrison, President of Financial Services at DealCloud. “We will partner with Next Sparc to implement best practices for family office professionals.”

About DealCloud
DealCloud, an Intapp company, provides a single-source deal, relationship, and firm management platform that enables firms to power their dealmaking process from strategy to origination to execution. We offer fully configurable solutions purpose-built for the complex relationships and structures of private equity and growth capital firms, investment banks, private and publicly traded companies, debt capital providers, and other investors. For more information, visit dealcloud.com.

About Next Sparc Growth Partners
Next Sparc Growth Partners is a Cleveland-based professional family office that makes direct investments in rapidly growing founder-led and family-owned businesses. The firm leverages entrepreneurial experience, operational expertise, insights from more than 100 transactions since 2009, and a repeatable playbook to grow and scale companies. Next Sparc is guided by a unique investment philosophy: to build exceptional businesses and teams for the long term and accelerate lasting, sustainable growth, rather than focusing on short-term exit strategies. The firm aims to build partnerships with like-minded individuals who are ready to discover how value-added expertise and proven best practices can be the indelible “Sparc” that takes their businesses to the next level.