Tarte Capital adds TPD Design House as Genergy buys URA

Tarte Capital has completed the Tarte Capital TPD Design House acquisition following a Chapter 11 court-approved sale, while its portfolio company Genergy has acquired Utility Research Associates, or URA. The transactions were announced on August 5, and neither disclosed financial terms.

The two moves involve different buyers. Tarte Family Office acquired TPD directly, whereas Genergy, which Tarte partnered with the Gristina family to acquire and operate in 2025, purchased URA. PitchBook lists TPD’s deal date as July 1, 2026 and URA’s as July 31.

What did Tarte Capital acquire?

TPD Design House is a creative agency based in Wayne, Pennsylvania. According to Tarte, its work includes luxury-event design and production, visual identity, invitation suites, gifting, and web design and development.

Tarte’s stated plan for TPD is to enlarge its team, broaden its creative capacity and invest in production equipment. Those actions remain planned investments rather than reported operating results.

The firm describes its acquisition approach as focused on companies with scope to expand, operating leverage, reasonable capital-expenditure requirements and opportunities for support in financial planning, sales, marketing and corporate culture. Its published criteria also identify businesses with EBITDA of $2 million to $5 million as an area of interest.

TPD fits the design, branding and events portion of Tarte’s current holdings. Tarte says it has acquired, or participated in groups that acquired, more than 20 companies since 2001, with exits valued at more than $750 million in aggregate.

What does Genergy’s acquisition of URA add?

Genergy acquired URA, a provider of utility billing, utility-data management and submetering services. Tarte describes Genergy as an energy-management business offering electrical submetering, real-time monitoring and utility billing, with primary operations in greater New York City and South Florida.

The companies’ stated rationale is to combine URA’s customer relationships with Genergy’s engineering and technology capabilities. Tarte said the transaction would broaden its utility-data services offering and make engineering, infrastructure-management, compliance, energy-procurement and technology services available to URA clients.

URA therefore extends activity within an existing portfolio company rather than representing a second direct purchase of an operating company by Tarte. The announcement did not provide transaction values, ownership stakes, financing arrangements, revenue figures or expected cost savings.

For Tarte, the paired developments bring a creative-services business acquired through a court-approved process alongside an expansion in the utility-data sector. The firm has presented both as part of an effort to supply operating infrastructure and capital to specialist, founder-led businesses.