AHEAD, Inc. Asset Profile

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Year established

2007

Location

Chicago IL US

Primary Industry

IT Infrastructure

About

Founded in 2007, chaired by Daniel Adamany as CEO and based in Illinois, the US, AHEAD, Inc. is a data center that offers a DDP (digital delivery platform) that provides automation, operations, scaled DevOps, integrated security, and enterprise cloud computing services. The company hosts over 300 clients for educational briefings, visioning workshops, and access to state-of-the-art labs. The company merged with Data Blue and acquired Sovereign Systems in 2019 and RoundTower Technologies and Kovarus Inc in 2020 while Centerbridge Partners agreed to acquire a majority stake in Ahead, LLC from Court Square Capital Partners. In 2021, Ahead acquired Vertical Trail. As of 2020, the company staffs over 1000 employees post-acquisition, across 16 offices throughout the United States. The company’s services include building digital platforms for digital business from education and strategy development to complex deployments and ongoing operational management. Ahead modernizes infrastructure and delivers software innovation across public clouds, data centers, and edge locations. The company’s solutions include infrastructure and application migrations, cloud security, and financial optimizations. Ahead also creates intelligent operations such as application performance management design and implementation, and ServiceNow ITSM / ITOM implementations and, reboots among others. Ahead also launched a consulting line of business and automation practice in 2010. As of 2020, the company generated USD 2.1 billion in gross revenue. Following the company’s acquisition of Vertical Trails combined with the previous acquisitions in 2020, Ahead plans to increase the company’s national presence and expand into business applications and data insights by growing both organically and non-organically through acquisitions.

Current Investors

Berkshire Partners, Centerbridge Partners

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Primary Industry

IT Infrastructure

Sub Industries

Data Centers, Consulting Services, IT Infrastructure, Systems Management Software, Application Integration Software, Analytics & Performance Software

Website

www.ahead.com

Verticals

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing

Company Stage

Mature

Total Amount Raised

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Deals

Deals Type
Add-on, Trade Sale
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Secondary Buyout
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Deal Status	Target (s)	Deal Date
Completed	Computer Design & Integration, LLC	01 Feb 2024
Completed	MBX Systems	05 Jun 2023
Announced	AHEAD, Inc.	26 Sep 2022
Completed	vCORE Technology Partners	07 Mar 2022
Completed	Vertical Trail, LLC	13 Apr 2021

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