Houlihan Lokey Advises LeapXpert on Its Investment From Riverwood Capital

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that LeapXpert, Inc., a leader in governed communication intelligence, has closed a $180 million growth investment round led by Riverwood Capital, a high-growth technology investment firm managing more than $6 billion of capital.

The LeapXpert communications platform brings enterprise-grade governance to the consumer messaging channels that employees and clients use. Every conversation is captured, governed, and understood in real time, turning client interactions into intelligence that businesses can act on. Hundreds of the world’s most demanding enterprises across financial services, government, and the Forbes Global 2000 rely on LeapXpert daily as enterprise communications move to messaging. The informal conversations that close deals, resolve problems, and build relationships now happen on channels like WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, and WeChat. For years, these conversations sat outside enterprise systems, creating operational, regulatory, and security challenges and leaving conversation data largely untapped. Today, LeapXpert’s AI and enterprise governance turn that data into one of the most valuable assets a company owns.

The company was named a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving two years running, made the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2024 and 2025, and recently joined the Financial Times’ 2026 list of the “Fastest-Growing Companies in America.“

Riverwood Capital is one of the leading investment firms solely dedicated to AI-powered proven growth technology. Riverwood’s mission is to invest in and support a select group of high-growth technology companies as they scale into enduring, category-defining platforms, growing from $10s of millions in revenue to $100s of millions and beyond. It manages more than $6 billion and has been exclusively focused on the proven growth technology segment since its founding in 2008. Over the past decade, Riverwood Capital has partnered with more than 90 exceptional companies, working closely with founders and management teams to provide deep operational, strategic, and global expertise.

LeapXpert will use the proceeds to deepen the platform’s ability to understand and act on governed conversations, accelerate growth across financial services, the public sector, and the broader enterprise market, and expand its senior leadership team.

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