For 42 years the Chicago firm has run the buyout playbook in reverse - recruiting a billion-dollar operator before it writes a check. In July it closed a $3.2 billion fund to keep doing it.
Klarity is a San Francisco enterprise AI company that watches how work actually gets done inside a company - passively, across apps - and turns that mess into a structured map of processes, SOPs, and improvement opportunities. Founded by a Harvard lawyer and an MIT computer scientist, it started by automating contract review for finance teams and has expanded into a Context Graph platform used by OpenAI, DoorDash, Stripe, Salesforce, Zoom, and Cloudflare to bend the G&A cost curve.
Tigerhall is an AI-powered Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 1000 transformation leaders communicate, train and measure organizational change at speed. Founded by Nellie Wartoft in 2018, it serves enterprise customers in 32+ countries.