AEA Partners with Magna5 to Accelerate Growth of Leading IT Managed Services Provider

Partnership to Support Continued Scaling of Magna5's National Platform and Expansion of Cybersecurity, Compliance, and AI‑Enabled Capabilities

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AEA Investors' ("AEA") Small Business Private Equity team ("AEA SBPE") today announced that it has made a majority investment in Magna5 (the "Company"), a leading provider of managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud-based services to small and mid-sized ("SMB") and mid-market businesses across the U.S. The transaction was completed alongside significant reinvestment from the Company's management team. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

As a comprehensive managed services provider ("MSP"), Magna5 delivers 24/7 IT and network support, advanced cybersecurity monitoring, cloud hosting, and compliance‑driven technology services to more than 1,700 SMB and mid-market customers across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, legal services, construction, education, and other regulated sectors. The Company serves as a strategic, long-term technology partner, providing fully managed solutions that ensure customers' systems are resilient, secure, compliant, and properly optimized for rapidly evolving digital and regulatory demands. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania with an expanding network of local support centers, Magna5 is well equipped to meet the needs of clients nationwide.

"Magna5 is operating at the heart of one of the fastest‑growing segments of the IT services market, where heightened cybersecurity risk and increasing regulatory requirements are driving accelerating demand for trusted full‑stack technology partners," said Dan Schorr, Partner on the AEA SBPE team. "Magna5 has a track record of consistently delivering industry-leading outsourced security and compliance solutions at scale for SMBs, positioning the Company exceptionally well to address this growing market need. We look forward to supporting Bob and the entire Magna5 team as they continue building a premier national platform."

As the Company enters this next chapter, Magna5 will continue to be led by Chief Executive Officer Bob Farina and its existing leadership team. In connection with this partnership, Chris Claudio – AEA SBPE Executive Partner and former CEO of Logically, an IT MSP – will join the Company's Board. Drawing on more than two decades of experience in the managed IT and cybersecurity industry, Mr. Claudio will bring valuable strategic and operating expertise as Magna5's skilled team continues to scale the business.

"We are thrilled to partner with AEA as we enter the next phase of Magna5's growth," said Mr. Farina. "We have significantly expanded our platform over the past several years – welcoming nine new companies into the Magna5 family, growing our national footprint, earning CMMC Level 2 certification, and launching our Pentaguard security framework, among other meaningful milestones. With AEA's support, we are well positioned to build on that momentum, enhancing our security and compliance offerings, broadening our AI‑enabled capabilities, and continuing to deliver the reliable, high‑quality support our customers expect."

ABOUT AEA INVESTORS
AEA Investors ("AEA") was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. as a private investment vehicle for a select group of industrial family offices with substantial assets. AEA has an extraordinary global network built over many years which includes leading industrial families, business executives, and leaders, many of whom invest with AEA as active individual investors, join its portfolio company boards, or act in other advisory roles. Today, AEA's over 110 investment professionals operate globally with offices in New York, Stamford, Jacksonville, San Francisco, London, Munich, and Shanghai. The firm manages funds that have approximately $18 billion of invested and committed capital including the leveraged buyouts of middle market and small business companies, growth capital, and private debt investments. For more information, visit www.aeainvestors.com.

ABOUT MAGNA5
Magna5 is a leading provider of cybersecurity, managed IT services, cloud hosting, compliance services, consulting, and procurement to SMB and mid-market customers, including leaders in healthcare, financial services, construction and engineering, legal services, education, and other industry segments. Headquartered in Canonsburg, PA, with local support centers across the U.S., Magna5 has customers nationally. For more information, visit www.magna5.com.

MEDIA CONTACTS

AEA Investors:
Kaitlin Bilby
(212) 845-4307
[email protected]

Kate Thompson / Madeline Jones / Kate Kelley
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
(212) 355-4449

Magna5:
Rebecca Gammon
(434) 220-8653
[email protected]

SOURCE AEA Investors