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The Firm That Made 'Accelerate Change' a $6 Billion Playbook
For more than two decades, Tailwind Capital has bought the boring, essential companies that keep infrastructure, supply chains and IT running - then quietly compounded them.
The Private Equity Firm That Treats Payments Like Product
Blue Star Innovation Partners does not sell founders a distant board seat. It sells them a working session - then brings a payments playbook, an operator bench, and capital to the table.
The Denver Firm That Buys Companies Nobody Else Wants to Fix
It writes checks of $25 to $75 million for lower-middle-market companies most investors find too complicated, then spends its time on the operational grind others skip. Its own pitch: 'Profitability Not Required.'
The Private Equity Firm That Grew Out of a Turnaround Shop
Born from one of the world's best-known restructuring firms, A&M Capital bets that operators, not just financiers, make the better owners of mid-sized companies.
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.