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The Firm That Buys Boring Businesses and Sends an Operator to Run Them
Liberty Partners backs the people who buy small companies and stay to run them. In healthcare, B2B services and financial services, its bet is that owners who fix boilers and read board decks build more durable businesses than spreadsheets alone.
Meet the Chicago Firm Quietly Buying the Software That Runs Your Company
Thoma Bravo has spent two decades turning enterprise software into private equity's most repeatable playbook - roughly $180 billion in assets, more than 580 companies acquired, and a cybersecurity portfolio most governments would envy.
Blackstone
It started with $400,000 and two guys who couldn't raise a fund. Four decades later, Blackstone manages $1.35 trillion and quietly owns the warehouses, apartments and data centers powering the AI boom.
Mosaic
Mosaic is an AI-driven operating system for deal makers in private markets. The New York-based company automates the financial modeling work that investment professionals traditionally grind out in Excel - leveraged buyouts, discounted cash flows, scenario analysis - turning a process that once took a week into roughly ten minutes. Its platform pairs rules-based calculation engines with generative AI tools like Mosaic Vision and Mosaic Autopilot to read deal documents and draft accurate, downloadable Excel models. Backed by an $18M Series A led by Radical Ventures, Mosaic counts five of the top ten global private equity firms among its customers.