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PROS Spent 40 Years Teaching Airlines What Every Seat Is Worth - Then Split the Company in Two
The Houston software veteran began with an overbooking algorithm, grew into a $330 million pricing platform and survived both a cloud rebuild and aviation's worst shock. Its new owner has now made a stark bet: the airline brain is more valuable on its own.
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.
The Software That Runs the Companies That Run Your IT
Most people have never heard of ConnectWise. But if a small business somewhere fixed your laptop last week, the outsourced IT shop that did it was probably running on ConnectWise software.
USU
For nearly five decades, a quiet software company near Stuttgart has been helping big organizations tame the IT sprawl no one else wants to touch - and it just landed a Thoma Bravo backer to do more of it.
Conga
Align pricing, quoting, and contracting with shared, AI-driven intelligence so teams stay aligned and move from decision to execution with clarity and speed.
Bottomline
Transforming the Way Businesses Pay and Get Paid
Apryse
The company formerly known as PDFTron sells the invisible machinery behind millions of documents - SDKs that let any app create, view, edit, sign, and mine PDFs without ever touching Adobe.
Proofpoint
Proofpoint is a cybersecurity and compliance company that protects organizations against the threats that target people - email attacks, data loss, and insider risk. Founded in 2002, it became the first SaaS-based cybersecurity vendor to cross $1B in annual revenue, was taken private by Thoma Bravo for $12.3B in 2021, and today runs a 'human-centric' security platform spanning email defense, data security, and identity threat protection used by a majority of the Fortune 100.
Auctane
Auctane is the Austin-based software company behind a family of shipping and mailing brands - ShipStation, Stamps.com, ShippingEasy, ShipEngine, ShipWorks, Endicia, Metapack, GlobalPost and Packlink - that help merchants of every size print labels, compare carrier rates, automate order fulfillment and track parcels worldwide. Formerly known as Stamps.com, it rebranded to Auctane in 2021 under Thoma Bravo ownership, and in June 2026 merged with freight broker WWEX Group to form ShipStation Global, a combined logistics platform serving more than 3 million customers and moving over 3 billion shipments a year.
Hyland
Hyland is a Westlake, Ohio software company that helps large organizations capture, manage, and act on their unstructured content - the contracts, claims, patient charts, and forms that pile up in every enterprise. Built around its flagship OnBase platform and bolstered by acquisitions like Alfresco and Nuxeo, Hyland has spent three decades turning document chaos into automated workflows. Today it is repositioning around the Content Innovation Cloud, layering AI agents and intelligent document processing on top of the content services its 4,000-ish employees have sold to healthcare systems, banks, insurers, and governments worldwide.