Clearlake Capital To Acquire Dude Solutions

Dude Solutions is a market leading provider of cloud-based operations management software that automates mission-critical enterprise asset management workflows such as work order, inventory, energy, capital planning, facility scheduling, and community development. Dude Solutions provides an end-to-end SaaS solution for its over 12,000 clients in the education, government, healthcare and manufacturing verticals.

“We are excited to partner with Clearlake, who has a successful track record of sponsoring and supporting growing software companies,” said Ed Roshitsh, Chief Executive Officer, Dude Solutions. “Clearlake’s partnership will provide access to global resources and enable the Company to invest in growth initiatives to better serve our customer base over the long-term.”

“This milestone was achieved by the culmination of a great Dude Solutions team, an excellent partner in Warburg Pincus and over 12,000 organizations which have provided us the honor to assist them in working smarter and more efficiently,” said Kent Hudson and Lee Prevost, Co-Founders of Dude Solutions.

“We are impressed by what Dude Solutions has achieved under Ed and the founders’ leadership, and we share their excitement that the Company will serve as an excellent platform for both organic and inorganic growth initiatives,” said Behdad Eghbali, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Prashant Mehrotra, Partner, of Clearlake. “Dude Solutions has a market leading software platform that operates in an increasingly complex asset management environment. We look forward to leveraging our O.P.S.^® approach to support the management team and its many talented and passionate employees in continuing to provide best-in-class operations management software to its client base.”

“Legacy solutions and paper-based approaches are ill-suited for today’s enterprise asset and operations managers,” added Paul Huber, Vice President, of Clearlake. “We believe Dude Solutions’ market leading software uniquely positions the Company to automate asset management processes and create lasting value for clients.”

“Over the past five years, Dude Solutions has more than quadrupled to become the market leader in cloud-based operations management software,” said Justin Sadrian, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. “We are proud to have partnered with Ed, Kent and Lee as well as the entire Dude Solutions team and we wish the company continued success in the future,” added Alex Stratoudakis, Principal, Warburg Pincus.

Shea & Co. served as financial advisor to Clearlake. William Blair & Company served as financial advisor to Dude Solutions and Warburg Pincus.