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Thompson Street Capital Partners Announces the Sale of DDC Solutions to Daikin
ST. LOUIS, August 19, 2025--Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St. Louis, MO, announced today that the firm, along with Cequel III, has completed the sale of DDC Solutions, a leading data center technology provider of high-density GPU cooling solutions and software, to Daikin Applied, a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, the world’s largest manufacturer of HVAC equipment headquartered in Japan. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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