BV Investment Partners, in Collaboration with TriCore Solutions, Announces Growth Equity Investment in REAN Cloud

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May 17, 2016, 08:00 ET

BOSTON, May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- BV Investment Partners ("BV"), a private equity firm focused on the information and business services and communications sectors, along with TriCore Solutions, LLC ("TriCore"), a BV Fund VIII portfolio company, today announced a joint investment in REAN Cloud, LLC ("REAN" or the "Company"), an Amazon Web Services ("AWS") Premier Consulting Partner and provider of cloud strategy, migration and managed services to enterprise and government customers. The existing owners of REAN will maintain a majority ownership interest in partnership with BV and TriCore.

Founded in 2013 and based in Herndon, VA, REAN Cloud helps customers architect, build, migrate, and manage their IT workloads and applications on AWS. REAN is led by AWS and industry veterans with deep cloud services expertise supporting customers in predominantly highly regulated end markets, including Life Sciences, Higher Education, Financial Services and Government. In addition to its AWS Premier Consulting Partner status, REAN is a designated AWS Managed Services Partner, whereby it enables 24/7/365 best-practice large-scale cloud operations for customers. The Company has also achieved the AWS DevOps competency, assisting customers in implementing continuous integration, continuous deployment (CICD) pipeline automation, built leveraging the industry's best tools. REAN has grown rapidly since its inception and currently has over 120 employees worldwide.

The investment in REAN will help to facilitate the Company's continued growth, including geographic expansion and investment in internal resources, sales and marketing. TriCore is an application managed services provider specialized in enterprise resource planning (Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft), database management, business analytics and business intelligence. Alongside the joint investment, REAN and TriCore have established a formal affiliate partnership to seek to accelerate cloud adoption of sophisticated, mission-critical enterprise applications and to provide customers with ongoing technical and functional support for these applications in the cloud.

Matt Kinsey, a Partner at BV, said, "We are thrilled to be partnering with the REAN founders and team to accelerate the growth of their business in collaboration with our partners at TriCore. REAN stands out to us as a valued AWS partner and part of a fast-growing market that we have been following for some time. REAN has established an efficient and scalable global delivery model and handles many large and complex cloud enablement projects. The business has a very promising future, and we and our partners at TriCore are excited to have the opportunity to positively contribute to it."

Mark Clayman, CEO of TriCore, added, "Both REAN and TriCore approach the market with a similar operating philosophy, first and foremost focused on delivering superior customer support for mission-critical IT workloads throughout the full lifecycle, from on-boarding to operations and continuous improvements. We believe there are many opportunities for REAN and TriCore to collaborate and present a compelling and unique cloud services solution to the marketplace."

"We are fortunate to find a very compatible financial and strategic partner in BV and TriCore," said Sekhar Puli, Managing Partner of REAN. "Both bring resources and expertise to bear within the broader technology and IT services industry that will prove invaluable in helping us achieve our growth objectives. We are looking forward to a very productive and rewarding partnership."

"This partnership will help us scale our engineering team and enhance and strengthen our IP to enable enterprise cloud acceleration," said Sri Vasireddy, Managing Partner of REAN.

About REAN Cloud

REAN Cloud, a Premier Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Managed Services Partner, is a cloud-native firm with deep experience supporting enterprise IT infrastructures and implementing continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines. With its headquarters at Herndon, VA, the company has implemented complex and highly scalable architectures which support secure, compliant operations in highly regulated industries such as the Financial Services, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Education, and Public Sector verticals. The company's team has extensive AWS expertise and DevOps experience that ensures quick, secure and reliable launch of clients' solutions with no capital investments needed to procure hardware or services. REAN Cloud team has worked with global organizations including Radian, Ditech Mortgage, Brainloop, Ellucian, Ozy Media and Sentient Energy. REAN Cloud solutions are bundled with advanced security features to help address clients' compliance needs. For more information, please visit http://www.reancloud.com, email at [email protected] or call +1 (844) 377-7326.

About TriCore Solutions

TriCore Solutions, the application management experts, provides a full suite of scalable and reliable managed application, cloud and infrastructure hosting, and consulting services to enterprise organizations. With 16 years of experience, the Company delivers its services and the TriCore Trusted Promise to more than 260 enterprise-class companies worldwide to reduce costs, raise service levels, improve customer experience, increase business agility, and accelerate innovation, unlocking the business value from their IT investments. Our partners include industry leaders such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, AWS, and HP. TriCore Solutions is headquartered in Boston, MA, with offices in India and throughout North America. For more information, please visit http://www.tricoresolutions.com and @tricorenow on Twitter.

About BV

BV Investment Partners is currently investing its eighth private equity fund. The firm is one of the oldest and most experienced sector-focused private equity firms in North America. Since its founding in 1983, the firm has invested over $2.7 billion in over 84 companies, actively targeting investments in the information and business services and communications industries. For more information, please visit http://www.bvlp.com.

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