Odyssey Acquires Majority Stake in Family-Owned TransPak

Odyssey Investment Partners has made a majority investment in TransPak, a Silicon Valley provider of packaging engineering, crating, testing, and supply chain services for fragile and high-value equipment. This is the first institutional capital taken on by the Inch family, which has owned the business for generations.

TransPak designs and builds packaging, crating, and logistics programs for products that are complex, fragile, and difficult to ship, from semiconductor and data center hardware to aerospace, defense, and medical equipment. The company combines custom crate and container engineering, packaging design and testing, and coordinated global logistics so that sensitive equipment reaches its destination intact.

The company’s work centers on engineered protective packaging validated through testing, paired with logistics management that spans an international footprint across North America, Asia, and Europe. That combination has made TransPak a partner to many of the world’s technology and cloud infrastructure companies as they move high-value hardware between manufacturing sites, data centers, and customers.

TransPak was founded in 1952 and has spent more than seven decades helping customers transport hard-to-ship products, building a customer base weighted toward blue-chip technology accounts. TransPak, led by CEO Bert Inch, is headquartered in San Jose, California.

“Since 1952, TransPak has earned the trust of the world’s most innovative companies by solving their most complex packaging, logistics, and supply chain challenges,” said Mr. Inch. “As we move into our next chapter, we wanted a partner who recognizes the foundation we’ve built, understands our customers, and shares our long-term vision. We found that in Odyssey, with their deep industry knowledge combined with their track record of supporting and growing family businesses.”

The business has been owned by the Inch family for generations, most recently under Arlene Inch, former owner and chairwoman, and will continue to operate under Mr. Inch and the existing executive team following the majority investment by Odyssey. The transaction represents the company’s first institutional partnership in a history stretching back to 1952.

“Seeing what this team has built over the years is something I’m deeply proud of, and I’m excited for TransPak’s next chapter,” said Ms. Inch.

Now in partnership with Odyssey, TransPak plans to accelerate spending on its global operations, manufacturing capabilities, engineering expertise, and technology infrastructure, and to expand geographically as demand for AI infrastructure, advanced semiconductors, and high-performance computing grows. Odyssey pointed to the company’s exposure to those end markets and its record with family businesses as central to the deal.

“TransPak is an industry leader with specialized capabilities, deep blue-chip customer relationships and meaningful exposure to fast growing segments of the technology infrastructure landscape,” said Craig Staub, a senior managing principal at Odyssey. “The transaction builds on Odyssey’s decades of packaging industry experience and recent first-hand insights into the data center market, and we are excited to utilize our significant industry expertise and relationships to support the management team as they capitalize on a wide range of attractive growth opportunities.”

Protective packaging is being reshaped by the same data center and semiconductor demand that drives TransPak’s core accounts. The U.S. protective packaging market was valued at roughly $38.4 billion in 2026 and is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of about 4.2%, according to Global Market Insights, with electronics shipments and anti-static cushioning cited as growth drivers. Demand for high-density semiconductor and advanced packaging tied to AI, high-performance computing, and networking is expanding at a faster clip, supporting specialized providers that move and protect fragile, high-value hardware.

Odyssey is a New York-based private equity firm founded in 1997 that makes majority-controlled investments in the industrial and business services sectors using a buy, build, and integrate approach. The firm targets companies with EBITDA of roughly $20 million to $100 million and enterprise values of about $100 million to $1 billion. Odyssey is investing out of its $3.25 billion sixth fund which closed in 2020.

“Bert and the TransPak team have built an incredible family-owned business with a unique reputation for best-in-class product design, reliability and service that has created a highly loyal customer base,” said Jonathan Place, a managing principal at Odyssey. “At the same time, TransPak has established an exceptional culture of excellence that drives team members to achieve exceptional outcomes for customers. We are very excited to partner with the entire team to create the next successful chapter in TransPak’s history.”

Stifel and BMO served as financial advisors to Odyssey. J.P. Morgan served as financial advisor and Accent Capital Partners as strategic advisor to TransPak.