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The Alarm Company That Grew by Making High-Tech Security Feel Old-Fashioned
John Loud left an airline cockpit for an alarm panel, then built a nearly 13,000-customer company around an unfashionable idea: answer the phone, know the customer and make the machinery work.
The Texas Tech Company That Put 130 Customers on One Radio - and Made Rural Broadband Pencil Out
VGI spent years working around the limits of rural wireless. Then a skeptical pilot hit 600 Mbps, one water-tower radio carried more than 130 customers, and a granite-bound Texas community finally got a credible alternative to slow broadband.
Strategic Connections, LLC
Strategic Connections is a Raleigh, North Carolina technology infrastructure integrator that designs, installs, inspects and maintains the systems most people never notice but everyone depends on - structured cabling, audio visual, commercial security, fire alarm and fire protection. Founded in 1998 and built up through acquisitions and specialty divisions, the firm bundles enterprise-grade low-voltage work into a single turnkey partner for commercial, government, education and data center clients across the Carolinas and beyond. In August 2025 it joined forces with SuperHero Fire Protection, a Hidden Harbor Capital Partners portfolio company, to scale its recurring service and inspection business.
Sciens Building Solutions
Sciens Building Solutions is a national fire-life safety and security systems integrator headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Built since 2016 through a rapid roll-up of regional specialists, Sciens designs, installs, inspects, services and monitors fire detection, suppression, sprinkler, security and communications systems for commercial, institutional and government buildings across more than a dozen U.S. states. Backed by Carlyle, it aims to become the largest independent fire-life safety and security integrator in the United States.