RCP Advisors Names Sverica’s Coastal Cloud 2025 Deal of the Year
RCP Advisors has awarded Sverica Capital (“Sverica”), a private equity firm focused on partnering with founder-led businesses in the lower middle market, its 2025 Deal of the Year Award in connection with the Firm’s stewardship of Coastal Cloud (the “Company”). After reviewing more than 70 realization events across our portfolios, we selected Coastal Cloud not only for the excellent realized outcome, but also for the exceptional sourcing, partnership, and value-creation execution that made this result possible. Sverica’s collaboration with the founders and leadership team at Coastal Cloud offers a compelling illustration of how a small buyout transaction should be executed.
“It is an honor to receive this award from RCP as their breadth, depth, and expertise in the lower end of the middle market is best in class. Coastal represents the best of what we do at Sverica.”
Jordan Richards, Managing Partner, Sverica
Coastal Cloud, a leading Salesforce consulting and digital transformation partner, represented a unique opportunity within an ecosystem where Sverica possessed both deep experience and pattern recognition. The Firm had previously invested in 7Summits, a Salesforce solutions business that ultimately delivered a standout return within Sverica’s portfolio, providing the Firm with uncommon domain insight and credibility.
Sverica’s work with 7Summits also enhanced its sourcing effectiveness. Because 7Summits was a well-known Salesforce Platinum Partner, Sverica frequently referenced this successful case study during cold outreach, which consistently improved callback rates and engagement. In Coastal Cloud’s case, 7Summits’ reputation prompted Co-founder Tim Hale to respond to Sverica’s initial cold outreach. Over the next two years, Sverica built trust, developed alignment around the Company’s growth potential, and ultimately partnered with the founders to scale Coastal Cloud into a high-performing, industry-recognized platform.
Sverica applied an improved version of its value-creation playbook, refined over its seven-year ownership of 7Summits, tailoring those lessons to Coastal Cloud’s unique strengths and opportunities. Key initiatives included strengthening the leadership team, hiring independent Directors with highly relevant experience, investing in delivery capabilities and industry specialization, enhancing go-to-market, and reinforcing the Company’s people-first culture. The GP and Company also made strategic investments in Data & AI and introduced offerings in other high growth, next generation ecosystems such as Snowflake. These efforts drove strong organic growth, elevated service quality, and improved revenue visibility, helping position Coastal Cloud as a highly attractive strategic acquisition target.
“While the strategy provided the roadmap, it was the Coastal founders and leadership team who ‘provided the heart,’ driving the culture and execution that ultimately powered the transformation.”
Jordan Richards, Managing Partner, Sverica
RCP has been a committed partner to Sverica across multiple funds. Sverica’s consistent strategy execution, domain-driven sourcing, and collaborative approach with founders have made it a standout investor in the lower middle market. The Coastal Cloud investment adds to their history of successfully scaling founder-led technology and services companies and reinforces why Sverica has earned its reputation as a premier small buyout partner.
About Coastal Cloud
Since 2012, Coastal has helped more than 1,700 organizations do more with Salesforce, Snowflake, and data. Led by former Salesforce executives, enterprise IT veterans, and industry experts, Coastal’s heavily certified team brings breadth of knowledge to deliver fast, measurable impacts – powered by automation-driven delivery and solution accelerators. From data modernization to Agentforce to Salesforce innovation, you can count on Coastal to solve today’s – and tomorrow’s – most complex challenges. Coastal is proud to have a perfect 5/5 rating on the AppExchange, ISG’s recognition as the leading Salesforce & AI consultancy, six Salesforce Partner Advisory Boards seats, and three Salesforce Partner Innovation Awards. Discover more at www.coastalcloud.us.
About Sverica
Sverica is a leading growth-oriented private equity firm that has cumulative committed capital of $2.2 billion since inception. The firm acquires, invests in and actively builds companies that are, or could become, leaders in their industries. Since inception, Sverica has followed a “business builder” approach to investing and takes an active supporting role in its portfolio companies. Sverica devotes significant internal time and resources to help its management teams develop and execute growth strategies and proactively looks for levers to pull to accelerate growth by reinvesting back into those companies. Sverica firmly believes in building businesses collaboratively that can endure for the long term by starting with a strong foundation and bringing the right people and playbook to drive reinvestment and ultimately strong returns for our investors. For more information, please visit www.sverica.com.
About RCP Advisors
Founded in 2001, RCP Advisors, a strategy of Ridgepost Capital (NYSE: RPC), is a private equity investment firm that provides access to North American small buyout fund managers through primary, secondary, and co-investment funds, as well as customized solutions and research services. RCP believes it is one of the largest fund sponsors focused on this niche, with over $18.7 billion in committed capital* and 58 full-time professionals as of January 31, 2026.
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