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Aeris Partners Serves as the Exclusive Financial Advisor to Valant

Aeris Press Release / December 2023

BOSTON, MA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 4, 2023) Aeris Partners is pleased to announce Valant Medical Solutions, Inc. (“Valant” or “Company”), a market-leading provider of mission-critical practice management (“PM”) and electronic health record (“EHR”) solutions to behavioral health providers, has agreed to be acquired by Resurgens Technology Partners. Valant is a portfolio company of Gemspring Capital.

Aeris Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor to Valant and Gemspring Capital. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Valant provides purpose-built PM and EHR solutions to streamline the unique patient lifecycle requirements and practitioner workflows of the behavioral health market. More than 2,500 customers rely on Valant’s best-in-class cloud platform and integrated, end-to-end functionality to drive patient engagement, optimize practice efficiency, increase practice profitability and improve clinical outcomes.

“Valant’s mission-critical behavioral health solutions address the entire practice workflow lifecycle, from pre-visit to point-of-care to post-visit, with the goal of increasing patient engagement and improving outcomes,” said Garin Arevian, Managing Director at Aeris Partners. “It was a pleasure to advise Valant and Gemspring on the transaction.”

“Valant’s purpose-built behavioral health solutions deliver unparalleled workflow, customer value and ROI, and improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes for practices of all sizes” said David Joncas, Managing Director at Aeris Partners. “We’re confident Resurgens will be an exceptional partner to Valant during its next phase of growth and innovation.”

About Valant

Valant was founded in 2005 to provide behavioral health providers in solo and group practices with software to streamline administration and, most critically, improve patient outcomes. Inspired by the fact that technology transforms lives in meaningful ways, the Seattle-based company reinvented the way behavioral healthcare practices can serve their patients. Valant’s integrated solutions allow clinics to provide better care, run smoother and more efficient operations, increase revenue, and ensure full compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Not only are Valant’s products made specifically for behavioral health practices, but its support team comprises experts from the behavioral health field, thus allowing providers to focus on providing unparalleled clinical care.

About Resurgens Technology Partners

Resurgens Technology Partners is a tech-focused private equity firm investing in North American and select European lower middle-market application and IT infrastructure software businesses. Resurgens’ growing team offers a diversity of investing, operating and talent management experience, applying an active and engaged value creation approach with each portfolio company. Resurgens is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, with additional professionals located in Austin, London and Silicon Valley.

About Gemspring Capital

Gemspring Capital, a Westport, Connecticut-based private equity firm with $3.5 billion of capital under management, provides flexible capital solutions to middle market companies. Gemspring partners with talented management teams and takes a partnership approach to helping drive revenue growth, value creation and sustainable competitive advantages. Target companies are in the aerospace & defense, business services, consumer services, financial and insurance services, healthcare services, industrial services, software and tech-enabled services, or specialty manufacturing sectors.

About Aeris Partners

Aeris Partners provides premium strategic M&A advisory services to best-in-class software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, private equity investors and venture capital firms spanning a range of high-growth vertical markets including healthcare IT (HCIT) and Pharma Tech, government (GovTech), education (EdTech), architecture, engineering and construction (AECO), financial technology (FinTech), energy & power (EnergyTech), analytics, transportation and logistics, and the public sector, among others. Aeris leverages extensive technology domain expertise and an unparalleled commitment to delivering superior M&A outcomes on every transaction. The firm’s senior leadership team has successfully completed more than $35 billion of M&A advisory assignments to date. For more information, please visit: www.aerispartners.com.

Aeris Partners LLC is a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC.