Virginia-based Attain Capital Partners has made a minority investment in Houston-based consulting firm Safal Partners.

Safal is a consulting firm focused on the education market, founded by Multi Pandit.

Greg Baroni, founder and managing partner of Attain, will join Safal’s board of directors as chairman. Attain was founded by Baroni in 2009. Baroni previously worked at Unisys Corp. as well as KPMG.