Within the software and technology industries, Thoma Bravo has helped build many of the world's leading companies in applications, infrastructure and cybersecurity. Today, our firm’s private equity software portfolio includes 40+ companies that generate over $14 billion of annual revenue and employ over 45,000 colleagues around the world.
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ABC Financial
2017/08/12
ABC Fitness Solutions is the premier provider of software and related services for the health and fitness industry. Building on a reputation for excellence in support for clubs and their members, ABC is the trusted provider to boost performance and create a Total Fitness Experience for members of clubs of all sizes whether a national franchise, regional chain, or a local gym. Founded in 1981, ABC helps nearly 16,000 clubs and facilities globally perform better and more profitably offering a comprehensive SaaS club management solution that enables club operators to achieve optimal performance.
Activant
2017/08/12
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Apttus
2017/08/30
Apttus is a leading provider of software for the “middle office” (e.g., where profit and loss is managed and customer strategies implemented) in enterprises around the world. Its comprehensive suite of quote-to-cash (QTC) software solutions address all the processes necessary to go from providing a price quote to recognizing revenue, including configure-price-quote (CPQ), contract lifecycle management (CLM), e-commerce and billing and revenue management. Apttus’ solutions automate, optimize and apply artificial intelligence to the most important set of business processes for any enterprise – generating revenue and managing key commercial relationships. Its customer base includes hundreds of the Global 2000 and is expanding rapidly as enterprises of all sizes are recognizing the importance of middle office solutions to their growth and success. In May 2020, Apttus and Conga combined to create the leader in digital transformation for commercial operations.
Aternity
2020/08/12
Aternity is the Digital Experience Management company. Aternity’s mission is to help global enterprises optimize digital relationships for all customers, consumers and employees as they transact, collaborate and interact with technology—applications and infrastructure.
The Aternity Digital Experience Management (DEM) SaaS platform captures and contextualizes data, as well as actionable analytics and insights on user experience that inform remediation, drive down costs and increase productivity. Aternity is the experience optimization engine enabling every digital enterprise to understand its pulse constantly and at every endpoint, no matter how it shifts to adopt technology or change strategy.
Attachmate
2017/08/12
A 2004 investment by Thoma Bravo and two other private equity firms in a relatively small provider of software for accessing and integrating legacy computing applications was the first step in the creation, through a multi-year series of strategic acquisitions, of The Attachmate Group, the world’s largest independent provider of access and integration software for legacy systems. In 2014, Attachmate merged with Micro Focus International plc, a multinational, UK-based software and information technology business that provides software and consultancy services for clients updating legacy systems. As a result of the merger, Thoma Bravo and the other private equity firms became owners of about 40% of the outstanding stock of Micro Focus, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The stock was sold over the following two years.
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Aucerna
2017/08/12
Aucerna is one of the energy industry’s leading providers of solutions for integrated planning, execution and reserves. The company is a global source of technology and expertise, serving more than 500 customers from 12 global offices including Calgary, Houston, London and Singapore. Aucerna proudly serves the energy industry’s largest base of customers, from super-majors and emerging operators to energy investors, consultants and education institutions. Aucerna solutions are deployed in every region of the globe, helping companies make better investment decisions by connecting the people and the data of the modern energy industry.
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Autodata
2017/08/12
Developer of software and SaaS platform intended to increase the effectiveness of the automotive sales chain. The company's software services range from back-end automation systems that enable dealer-to-OEM vehicle ordering to data-driven consumer-focused interactive marketing initiatives such as brand websites, dealer websites, dealership sales tools and mobile solutions.
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AxiomSL
AxiomSL is a global leader in risk analytics, data-management, and regulatory-reporting solutions. Leveraging more than 25 years' experience, AxiomSL combines its deep industry experience and intelligent data-management platform to deliver solutions and services encompassing: financial regulations, capital risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, ownership, trade & transactions and tax reporting. The platform can be deployed on premise or on the cloud. Its client base spans national, regional and global financial institutions with more than $43 trillion in total assets and investment managers with more than $11 trillion in assets under management. Its coverage encompasses more than 110 regulators across 55 jurisdictions. AxiomSL is in the top 20 of the Chartis RiskTech100® 2020 ranking.
barracuda
2017/08/31
Barracuda simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks, applications and data, regardless of where they reside. These powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions are trusted by more than 150,000 organizations worldwide and are delivered in appliance, virtual appliance, cloud and hybrid deployment configurations. Barracuda’s customer-centric business model focuses on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions that provide end-to-end network and data protection.
Blue Coat
2017/08/12
Blue Coat Systems is a leading provider of Web security and WAN optimization solutions. Blue Coat offers solutions that provide the visibility, acceleration and security required to optimize and secure the flow of information to any user, on any network, anywhere. This application intelligence enables enterprises to tightly align network investments with business requirements, speed decision making and secure business applications for long-term competitive advantage. Blue Coat also offers service provider solutions for managed security and WAN optimization, as well as carrier-grade caching solutions to save on bandwidth and enhance the end-user Web experience. After about three years of Thoma Bravo ownership, Blue Coat was sold to Bain Capital in May 2015. During its period of ownership, Thoma Bravo worked closely with the company’s existing management to add additional operational resources; design and execute a plan that substantially reduced the company’s cost structure without negatively impacting top line performance; navigate the largest appliance refresh program in the company’s history; realign the focus of the company’s sales force; improve channel terms and practices; strengthen pricing discipline; and complete four strategic acquisitions in high growth sub-sectors of its markets. As the company’s CEO noted at the time: with Thoma Bravo’s help, “Blue Coat has strengthened and expanded our product portfolio, leading to more value for our customers while positioning the company for the next stage of growth… We have benefitted from Thoma Bravo’s insight and support.”
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Bomgar in the News
2017/08/12
Bomgar is a leading provider of Secure Access solutions for business. Bomgar’s secure access solutions enable customers to more easily support people, access and protect endpoints and defend privileged credentials to counter cyber threats and speed business performance. Organizations around the globe use Bomgar to deliver superior support services and reduce threats to valuable data and systems. Bomgar clients include some of the world’s leading IT outsourcers, systems integrators, software vendors, healthcare organizations, government agencies, universities, financial institutions and retailers. Thoma Bravo’s Discover Fund acquired Bomgar from another private equity firm in 2016 and, with management, quickly implemented an operating improvement plan that substantially improved the company’s profit margin. This was followed by a key add-on acquisition that enhanced the company’s security offerings. Bomgar was subsequently sold to an affiliate of private equity firm Francisco Partners.
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Centrify
2018/15/8
Centrify is enabling digital transformation at scale, modernizing how organizations secure privileged access across hybrid and multi-cloud environments by enforcing identity-centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) based on Zero Trust principles. In the context of PAM, Zero Trust requires establishing a root of trust, and then granting least privilege access based on verifying who is requesting access, the context of the request, as well as the risk of the access environment. By implementing identity-centric PAM, organizations minimize the attack surface, improve audit and compliance visibility, and reduce risk, complexity and costs for the modern, hybrid enterprise. Over half of the Fortune 100, the world’s largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies, all trust Centrify to stop the leading cause of breaches – privileged credential abuse.
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Command Alkon
2020/04/20
As the Leading Supplier Collaboration Platform for Heavy Work, Command Alkon solutions deliver supply chain integration and frictionless digital collaboration across the heavy construction ecosystem. CONNEX, a many-to-many technology platform purpose built for the industry, enables business partners to automate inter-enterprise operations, capture real-time visibility into heavy material orders and deliveries, leverage leading-edge software experiences to achieve mutually beneficial goals, and share knowledge to manage by exception and promote certainty of outcomes.
Compuware
2014/14/2
Compuware is the largest software company in the world exclusively devoted to optimizing customers’ IBM mainframe environments. Compuware empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by fully leveraging their high-value mainframe intellectual property. The company’s highly innovative mainframe application development and performance optimization solutions uniquely enable IT to drive business value.
ConnectWise
2017/08/12
Continuum
2017/06/14
Continuum is the premier global IT management platform for Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs). Continuum provides MSPs with the platform, services and processes needed to simplify IT management and deliver high quality Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM), backup and disaster recovery and security offerings to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Its vertically integrated service delivery model combines a SaaS-based technology suite with a best-in-class Network Operations Center (NOC) and Help Desk, and allows MSPs to remotely administer, backup and secure their clients’ IT environments from a single screen and to scale quickly and cost-effectively.
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Cority
2017/08/12
Cority is the most trusted environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) software for assuring client success. Cority enables organizations to utilize EHSQ software to advance their journey to sustainability and operational excellence by combining the deepest domain expertise with the most comprehensive and secure true SaaS platform. With 30+ years of innovation and experience, Cority’s team of over 350 experts serve over 800 clients in 100 countries, supporting 2.5 million end users. The company enjoys the industry’s highest levels of client satisfaction and has received many awards for its strong employee culture and outstanding business performance.
Datatel in the News
2017/08/12
For over 25 years, Datatel has focused exclusively on helping colleges and universities manage their business processes. Datatel today provides fully integrated enterprise information management software solutions to more than 600 colleges, universities and other higher education institutions serving almost 4 million students. Thoma Bravo invested in the company in 2005 and worked closely with the company’s management to improve its operations and enhance its profitability before selling the business about 4.5 years later for a substantial gain.
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Deltek in the News
2017/08/12
Deltek is the leading provider of project-focused enterprise software and information solutions for government contractors and professional service firms. The company’s product portfolio includes a comprehensive set of financial management solutions, business organization and program management applications, and business development and customer relationship management solutions. The company also is the largest provider of government RFP data and information, offering its customers insight into trillions of dollars of government contract opportunities. Thoma Bravo acquired Deltek, then a public company, through a take-private transaction in 2012. Operational improvements and efficiencies were implemented immediately, improving annual earnings by tens of millions of dollars. Working closely together, Thoma Bravo and management (led by the company’s former CFO who was appointed CEO) improved cash flow margins by more than 60% and made six accretive acquisitions. In 2016 the company was acquired by Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP).
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DigiCert
2018/08/28
DigiCert is a premier, trusted provider of enterprise security solutions. As a leading Certificate Authority (CA), it provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to over 115,000 customers in more than 180 countries, and is one of the few CAs dedicated solely to advancing public key infrastructure (PKI) software solutions for enterprises and networked devices. SSL technology applies complex cryptographic algorithms to secure communications between a web browser and a web servers. The Company’s SSL and other digital certificates and certificate lifecycle management products are used in e-commerce, healthcare, the Internet of Things and other emerging applications.
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Digital Insight
2017/08/12
Digital Insight, formerly the Financial Services division of Intuit, Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU), helps banks and credit unions grow by offering innovative online and mobile banking solutions that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage their money. Digital Insight provides solutions that help financial institutions achieve higher customer engagement and profitability. Thousands of banks and credit unions use Digital Insight to provide their online banking services. Thoma Bravo acquired the business from Intuit in 2013 and established it as an independent company with its own data center, back office operations and G&A functions and identified a number of cost savings opportunities. Thoma Bravo then received an offer from NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) to acquire the business at a price that achieved the return goals for the investment much sooner than had been anticipated. The business was sold to NCR less than six months after the Thoma Bravo investment.
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Dynatrace
2015/6/19
Dynatrace is an innovator and the market leader in the new generation of application performance management (APM) solutions. The company’s products help customers, both large and small, see their applications and digital channels through the lens of end users. Over 5,800 organizations use these insights to master complexity, gain operational agility, and grow revenue by delivering the highest quality user experiences. Previously a division of Compuware Corporation, Dynatrace was established as a stand-alone business by Thoma Bravo upon its acquisition of Compuware in 2014.
Elemica
2016/07/07
Elemica is the leading Digital Supply Network for the process manufacturing industries. Elemica accelerates digital transformation by connecting, automating, anticipating and then transforming inter-business supply chain processes for the products they buy, sell, and move. Launched in 2000, clients process over $500B in commerce annually on the network.
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Ellie Mae
2017/08/12
We’re the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry. Our technology solutions enable lenders to originate more loans, lower origination costs, and reduce the time to close, all while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, quality and efficiency.
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Embarcadero
2017/08/12
Embarcadero provides professional grade application performance tools for improving the user experience and database management tools for designing, developing and managing databases and the data they contain. Customers worldwide rely on the company’s cross-platform tools to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Thoma Bravo acquired Embarcadero, then a public company, in 2007 through a take-private transaction and sold the company in 2015 to Idera, Inc., a portfolio company of private equity investment firm TA Associates. The CEO of Embarcadero commented at the time that “Embarcadero has matured a great deal since we began our relationship with Thoma Bravo. At the outset, our collaboration faced the challenges of the 2007-2008 crisis. The Thoma Bravo team showcased their faith in Embarcadero’s potential with a patient and deliberate plan to achieve organic growth in the face of difficult economic conditions. Our ability to navigate the global financial crisis, grow our business and have a very successful exit all serve as a testament to the strength of our organization and Thoma Bravo’s patient approach to investing.”
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Empirix
2017/09/15
Empirix is the recognized leader in end-to-end network performance visibility, offering the unique ability to analyze customer behaviors, by application, in real-time, through an innovative approach to enabling the build-out of the Service Operations Center model. The company helps service providers, mobile operators, contact centers and businesses master complexities to drive improvements in customer experience and user satisfaction. Through testing, monitoring, analytics and intelligence, Empirix helps customers around the world maximize their technology investments while reducing implementation and customer impact risks.
Entrust
2017/08/12
Entrust secures digital identities and information for consumers, enterprises and governments in thousands of organizations spanning more than 60 countries. Leveraging a layered security approach to address growing risks, Entrust solutions help secure the most common digital identity and information protection pain points in an organization, including SSL, authentication, fraud detection, shared data protection and e-mail security. After acquiring the company through a take-private transaction in 2009, Thoma Bravo worked with management to create an appropriate go-to-market strategy, optimum pricing for its offerings and improved renewals, which produced a fast growing, recurring, and consistent subscription business that made a successful transition to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. In 2013, Entrust was sold to Datacard Group, a privately owned, global issuer of secure credit and financial cards, passports, national IDs, employee badges, mobile payment applications and other credentials on behalf of financial institutions, government agencies and other enterprises. During Thoma Bravo’s time with Entrust, the company’s revenue and earnings increased substantially.
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Exostar
2017/08/12
Exostar is the leading cloud-based identity and access management and secure collaboration software provider serving the aerospace and defense, healthcare, and life sciences industries. Exostar’s platforms create exclusive communities within these highly-regulated industries where organizations can securely collaborate, share information, and operate compliantly. More than 135,000 organizations and agencies in over 150 countries trust Exostar to strengthen security, reduce expenditures, raise productivity, and help them achieve their missions.
Flexera
2017/08/12
Flexera Software solutions make the business of buying and selling software more profitable, secure and effective and simplify the business relationship between software producers and enterprises. The company’s solutions help software sellers grow recurring revenues and minimize open source risk, and help companies buy only the software and cloud services they need, manage what they have, and reduce compliance and security risk. A Thoma Bravo fund acquired the business unit that is now Flexera from its corporate owner, Macrovision, in 2008 and established the business as an independent entity with its own structure, systems and leadership. With Thoma Bravo’s support, Flexera earnings almost doubled, margins increased about 20% and revenues grew more than 40% over the following three years. Four synegistic acquisitions contributed significantly to this growth and enhanced the Company’s market position and overall product offering. In 2011, Thoma Bravo sold a controlling interest in Flexera to Teachers’ Private Capital, the private investment department of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. The remaining interest was sold in early 2018 when TA Associates invested in Flexera.
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Foundation
2017/08/12
Foundation Software provides contractors with construction accounting software. In addition to their core job cost accounting product, the company also offers both project management and mobile tools that help contractors effectively run the business side of construction. Foundation also offers payroll processing and construction reporting services to the construction industry.
frontline
2017/09/16
Frontline Education is an award-winning provider of administrative and HR software solutions for more than 12,000 educational organizations representing over 80,000 schools and millions of educators, administrators and support personnel—the front line of education—in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners. Bringing together the best education software solutions into one unified platform, Frontline makes it possible to manage the administrative needs of the education community efficiently and effectively, including recruiting and hiring, employee absences and attendance, professional growth and special education and interventions programs.
ghx
2017/09/20
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) is a leading provider of cloud-based technology and services used for supply chain management by healthcare providers and suppliers. GHX offers its healthcare customers an open and neutral electronic trading exchange, procurement and accounts payable automation, contract and inventory management, business intelligence, and other tools and services. GHX enables the healthcare community to provide better and more cost-effective patient care by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy in business processes. A Thoma Bravo fund acquired GHX in 2014 from the consortium of healthcare companies that had formed it and, working closely with the company’s existing senior management team, implemented step-function operational improvements at closing, used improved cash flow to complete accretive add-on acquisitions, and re-invested in organic growth initiatives. As a result, the company’s earnings and margins increased substantially. In 2017, Temasek, a Singapore-based investment firm, purchased a majority interest in the company; Thoma Bravo remains an investor in the company with a minority interest.
hyland
2017/09/17
Hyland is a leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases for organizations across the globe. For over 25 years, Hyland has enabled more than 19,000 organizations to digitalize their workplaces and fundamentally transform their operations. Named one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For® since 2014, Hyland is widely known as both a great company to work for and a great company to do business with.
idaptive
2017/09/20
Idaptive was formed to enhance the growth of the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) business previously part of Thoma Bravo portfolio company Centrify. Idaptive delivers Next-Gen Access, a more advanced version of traditional access management technologies, to protect organizations from data breaches. Idaptive products are built on Zero Trust, an IT architecture based on the principle of “never trust, always verify.” Unlike other providers of access management, Idaptive uniquely combines leading capabilities to seamlessly integrate single-sign on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), enterprise mobility management (EMM), and user behavior analytics (UBA). Its solutions intelligently determine the authenticity of a digital user and the user’s device, govern access across an organization’s resources, and react when risky behavior is detected.
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IDS
2017/08/12
IDS streamlines the entire asset finance process from origination, to portfolio management, to end-of term. The company's cloud-based offerings integrate seamlessly into any asset finance ecosystem, offering unparalleled scalability, flexibility and economy to banks, independents and captives of all sizes. Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, IDS also has offices in the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and India.
Imperva
2017/08/12
Imperva is a cybersecurity leader that has built the world’s first and only multi-cloud platform to protect the edge, applications, and data. Edge security protects how the world connects to customer environments and includes DDoS and CDN. Application security protects customer critical workloads and includes WAF, RASP, and Advanced Bot Protection. Data security protects customer sensitive information and includes Database Activity Monitoring and Cloud Data Security. Imperva’s platform inspects more than 1T requests and blocks more than 18B attacks every month. By using machine learning to generate actionable insights via Attack Analytics and Data Risk Analytics, the company provides comprehensive visibility and risk buy-down across applications and data, saving companies more than 3M work hours every year. Imperva’s products are architected and designed to protect workloads and information on-premises, in the cloud, and across multi-cloud environments.
imprivata
2017/09/21
Imprivata is a leading provider of authentication, identity and access solutions for healthcare organizations globally. The Imprivata platform addresses critical compliance and security challenges while improving productivity and the patient experience. The company’s solutions include an authentication, single sign-on and workflow automation platform; a multi-factor authentication platform for e-prescribing controlled substances, remote access, and clinical workflows; a cloud-based secure communications and messaging platform; and a patient identification system using biometric technology. Together, they enable healthcare organizations to access, communicate, and transact patient information securely and conveniently.
infogix
2017/09/22
Infogix helps Fortune 1000 corporations analyze data as it moves through complex business environments to improve the customer experience, corporate profitability and operational efficiency. Through its Enterprise Data Analysis Platform, Infogix improves data quality, ensures effective transaction monitoring, provides balancing and reconciliation, and identifies and predicts fraud and customer behavior – assuring the integrity of information for hundreds of enterprise customers each day.
Infovista
2017/08/12
InfoVista is a Paris-based leading provider of service performance assurance solutions for IP-based network and application services. InfoVista’s unified network performance management and application performance management platform equips about 80% of the world’s largest network operators and many global enterprises to provide a high-quality user experience end-to-end while keeping operational costs as low as possible. During its almost five years of ownership of InfoVista, Thoma Bravo worked closely with the company’s management to improve sales, marketing and research and development efficiency and productivity, all in a manner consistent with applicable French work rule restrictions. Thoma Bravo also assisted the company in making three highly strategic acquisitions that had the effect of substantially increasing revenue and creating future growth opportunities. In 2016 the company was sold to Apax Partners, a leading European private equity investor.
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Instructure
2017/08/12
Instructure helps people grow from the first day of school to the last day of work. More than 30 million people use the Canvas Learning Management Platform for schools and the Bridge Employee Development Platform for businesses.
iPipeline
2017/09/25
iPipeline is a leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the life insurance industry. Through its SaaS solutions, it accelerates and simplifies insurance sales, compliance, operations and support. The company provides process automation and seamless integration between every participant in the life insurance industry including carriers, agents (such as financial advisors and independent insurance agents), distributors (such as banks, broker-dealers and general agencies) and consumers. Its innovative solutions enable automated processing for pre-sales, point-of-sale execution of applications, post-sale support, reporting, consumer delivery and agency management.
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JDA Software
2017/08/12
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JD Power
2017/08/12
J.D. Power is a global leader in consumer insights, advisory services and data and analytics. These capabilities enable J.D. Power to help its clients drive customer satisfaction, growth and profitability. Established in 1968, J.D. Power is headquartered in Troy, Mich.
Kofax
2017/09/28
Kofax enables organizations to Work Like Tomorrow™—today. Kofax’s Intelligent Automation software platform and solutions digitally transform document intensive workflows. Customers realize greater agility and resiliency by combining our process orchestration, cognitive capture, RPA, output management, analytics and mobile capabilities to speed time-to-value and increase competitiveness, growth and profitability while mitigating compliance risk.
LANDESK
2017/08/12
LANDESK Software is a leading provider of systems lifecycle management, endpoint security and IT service management solutions for desktops, servers and mobile devices across the enterprise. LANDESK enables IT departments to gain control of end-user computing environments with a single console, light infrastructure, and ITIL solutions that deliver significant value and ROI. Thoma Bravo invested in LANDESK in 2010 by acquiring it from Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR), where it was an operating division, and establishing it as stand-alone business. Then, working closely with management, Thoma Bravo implemented operational processes, metrics tracking and other best practices to improve cash flow margins by more than 40%, followed by a series of add-on acquisitions. Seven highly complementary technology assets were acquired to broaden the company’s product offering and position it as a fully integrated, end-to-end, user-centered IT management platform. In 2016, LANDESK was sold to Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., which combined it with its portfolio company HEAT Software to create a new business using the name Ivanti.
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Local Media
2017/09/29
LMA operates three 100,000 watt class C radio stations serving the San Diego, CA market, the country’s 17th largest radio market, with a variety of popular music formats and e-marketing opportunities. The Company also seeks additional radio broadcasting opportunities in large markets throughout the U.S. The current LMA stations are: XHRM-FM 92.5 (“Magic”), a “Rhythmic Adult Contemporary” station; XHTZ-FM 90.3 (“Z90”), a “Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio” station; and XETRA-FM 91.1 (“91X”), an “Alternative Music” station.
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LogRhythm
2017/09/30
LogRhythm empowers more than 4,000 customers across the globe to measurably mature their security operations program. LogRhythm’s award-winning Next
malign
2017/08/12
Mailgun provides email API technology to over 150,000 companies, enabling developers to send, receive, and track email easily from within their applications. Mailgun offers robust infrastructure technology combined with best-in-class customer support to ensure market-leading deliverability across several types of emails, including high-volume transactional and marketing messages.
Majesco
2017/08/12
Majesco provides technology, expertise, and leadership that helps insurers modernize, innovate and connect to build the future of their business – and the future of insurance – at speed and scale. Our platforms connect people and businesses to insurance in ways that are innovative, hyper-relevant, compelling and personal. Over 200 insurance companies worldwide in P&C, L&A and Group Benefits are transforming their businesses by modernizing, optimizing or creating new business models with Majesco. Our market-leading solutions include CloudInsurer® P&C Core Suite (Policy, Billing, Claims); CloudInsurer® LifePlus Solutions (AdminPlus, AdvicePlus, IllustratePlus, DistributionPlus); CloudInsurer® L&A and Group Core Suite (Policy, Billing, Claims); Digital1st® Insurance with Digital1st® Engagement, Digital1st® EcoExchange and Digital1st® Platform – a cloud-native, microservices and open API platform; Distribution Management, Data and Analytics and an Enterprise Data Warehouse.
Manatron
2017/08/12
Manatron is a leading provider of integrated, enterprise-level property tax solutions for state and local governments. The company’s software manages the entire property life cycle, which includes deed recording, land records, GIS (Geographic Information System) integration, valuation, assessment administration, personal property, business licenses, cashiering, tax billing and collection, delinquents and tax sales and e-government. Manatron serves customers throughout the United States and in Canada, South Africa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Over its three-year ownership of the company, through internal growth and six strategic acquisitions, Thoma Bravo was able to help Manatron grow its earnings by a factor of almost 5x, increase its operating margin almost 6x and expand from a local provider of tax software in a few core markets to the leading provider of end-to-end property systems globally. The company was sold in 2011 to Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), a $13B global information services company.
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McAfee
2017/10/01
McAfee, formerly a unit of Intel Corporation, is one of the world’s leading independent cybersecurity companies. For business customers, McAfee provides market leading security products that protect endpoints, networks and data, while its enterprise solutions include Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Server Protection, and NextGen Endpoint Protection. For consumers, McAfee provides protection from identity theft, phishing scams, viruses and malicious websites.
MedeAnalytics
2017/10/03
MedeAnalytics is a provider of cloud-based financial performance analytics for the healthcare industry. The company’s analytics platform allows healthcare organizations to use the immense amount of patient data collected along the care continuum to generate intelligence that helps detect their greatest areas of risk and identify opportunities to improve their financial health. With MedeAnalytics, providers and health plans are better able to collaborate and use data to strengthen their operations and improve the quality of care. MedeAnalytics’ cloud-based tools have been used to uncover business insights for healthcare organizations across the United States and United Kingdom.
Mediware in the News
2017/08/12
Mediware is a leading provider of specialized healthcare IT solutions for automating and managing complex healthcare processes for a broad spectrum of healthcare customers, including hospitals and alternative and post-acute care treatment facilities. Mediware software systems improve efficiencies and address safety concerns, enabling healthcare organizations to improve care processes while controlling costs. After acquiring the company in 2012, Thoma Bravo and management reduced the cost structure of the business to improve profitability without impacting revenue performance. Thoma Bravo also worked with management to reposition the business from predominantly a provider to the highly competitive hospital acute care market to a leading provider of healthcare IT for areas outside the hospital. Consistent with Thoma Bravo’s buy-and-build strategy, over the 4+ years of Thoma Bravo ownership the company identified and completed six accretive add-on acquisitions that not only increased the scale and scope of the business but also further improved profit margins and added additional, highly attractive recurring revenue. In 2017 Mediware was sold to TPG Capital.
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MeridianLink
2017/10/12
MeridianLink, Inc. was formed by the merger of MeridianLink and CRIF Lending Solutions and provides mission-critical software solutions to financial institutions. Developer of the industry’s first multi-channel account opening and loan origination suite, the company’s LoansPQ, LendingQB, and ACTion platforms allow banks and credit unions to process and accept consumer and mortgage loans as well as account opening applications, and integrate seamlessly with all major core and data services providers. MeridianLink also offers Synergy, a highly customizable and configurable loan processing and decisioning workflow product, as well as MortgageCreditLink, the dominant provider of “tri-merge” integration functionality into credit bureaus and other third-party consumer and business databases.
Motus
2017/10/13
Motus (which Thoma Bravo combined with Runzheimer International in 2018) is a leading, technology-driven provider of vehicle management and reimbursement solutions and other mobile workforce management tools. The company provides a sophisticated configuration engine that incorporates real-time data across hundreds of variables to drive significant cost reductions for companies reimbursing employees for business miles driven, while helping to ensure regulatory compliance.
Network Instruments
2017/08/12
Network Instruments is an industry leader in application and network troubleshooting and analysis. The company’s monitoring and management tools optimize performance and speed problem resolution, helping ensure delivery of critical applications for businesses worldwide. It delivers these benefits through a seamlessly integrated line of software and hardware systems that are precision engineered for exact network monitoring and analysis. After Thoma Bravo acquired Network instruments in 2012, it worked with management to transition the company from a founder owned and operated business to a professionally managed business with improved budgeting processes, formal incentive plans and financial support for sales to build upon the company’s differentiated technology in a growing market. This led to increased revenues and earnings, accelerated growth in new bookings and attention from larger companies in the sector. In 2014, the company was sold to JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASADAQ:JDSU), a $1.7B public provider of network management solutions.
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Nintex
2017/10/15
Nintex is the global standard for process management and automation. Today more than 8,000 public and private sector clients across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimizing business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).
Planview
2017/10/20
Planview has one focus: enabling the transformation journey as organizations rewire strategy to delivery in today’s fast-paced, highly disruptive markets. Our solutions uniquely help organizations navigate this journey and accelerate on-strategy delivery at enterprise scale. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions create organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empower teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enable customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Planview has more than 700 employees supporting 3,500 customers and 1 million users worldwide.
Porter and Chester Institute
2017/10/29
A leading postsecondary educational institution, founded in 1946, providing technical, business and health related occupational training through seven campuses in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
PowerPlan News
2017/08/12
PowerPlan, Inc. is a leading provider of corporate performance management (CPM) software to companies in asset-intensive industries, including utilities, oil & gas, public sector, telecom and transportation. PowerPlan’s fully integrated cloud-based and on-premise CPM platform provides complete data visibility from forecasting and monitoring to scenario planning and analytics while maintaining financial compliance. Thoma Bravo invested in PowerPlan in February 2015 and helped management develop and utilize more advanced financial management tools in the operation of the business. In addition, sales headcount was doubled to spur growth and the company’s technology was upgraded to set the foundation for a next-generation, cloud-based platform. Revenue grew at a double-digit compound annual rate and EBITDA margins expanded. Thoma Bravo also supported management in executing a highly accretive add-on acquisition of Riva Modeling Systems Inc., a leader in asset management planning and asset investment planning solutions. In June 2018, PowerPlan was acquired by Roper Technologies, a publicly-traded diversified industrial company.
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Qlik
2017/10/30
Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, one where everyone can use data to solve their most challenging problems. Only Qlik’s end-to-end data management and analytics platform brings together all of an organization’s data from any source, enabling people at any skill level to use their curiosity to uncover new insights. Companies use Qlik to see more deeply into customer behavior, reinvent business processes, discover new revenue streams, and balance risk and reward. Qlik does business in more than 100 countries and serves over 48,000 customers around the world.
Quorum
2017/11/01
Quorum is a leading provider of integrated software solutions that address the core processing demands of the upstream, midstream and downstream segments of the oil and gas value chain. The company offers an industry-leading portfolio of finance, operations and accounting software that empowers energy companies of all sizes to overcome their most complex business challenges from the field to the back office. Quorum is a preferred software provider to many of the largest public energy companies worldwide, 75 percent of LNG exporters throughout North America and companies providing 80 percent of all the natural gas processed in the United States.
Riskonnect
2017/11/12
Riskonnect is the leading global provider of Integrated Risk Management technology solutions. Its platform gives companies a holistic view of the various risk factors they face, along with mitigants, costs and impact for those risks. Through a unified, highly configurable set of modules, the company provides the tools and business intelligence needed to reduce losses, control risk, manage key stakeholder relationships and increase shareholder value. Riskonnect’s solutions allow users from organizations of any size to easily review, analyze and report on data from web-based interfaces—all within a single point of access platform.
Riverbed
2019/01/02
Riverbed is the leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility. Riverbed’s customers include 98% of the Forbes Global 100 and 97% of the Fortune 100.
Rich McBee
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Roadnet Technologies
2017/08/12
Roadnet (formerly UPS Logistics Technologies, a division of United Parcel Service) provides fleet management solutions for hundreds of thousands of vehicles worldwide and in a variety of industries. Specific fleet management applications provide strategic territory and street-level route plans, real-time wireless dispatch, vehicle telematics and global positioning systems (GPS). The company’s solutions are utilized to improve operational efficiency and driver productivity, saving customers millions of gallons of fuel every year. Thoma Bravo purchased the Roadnet business from UPS in 2010 and established the business as an independent company. During the Thoma Bravo ownership, the management team was supplemented, various operating improvements were made and sales and renewal functions were reorganized, all of which resulted in substantial increases in revenue and profitability. The company was sold in 2013 to Omnitracs, a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, who had concluded that Roadnet’s focus on software-based fleet solutions for private fleets was an excellent complement to Omnitracs’ focus on telematics hardware and software solutions for the long-haul transportation market.
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SailPoint
2019/01/01
SailPoint is the market-leading provider of on-premises and SaaS-based Identity and Access Management (“IAM”) solutions, helping global organizations mitigate security risks, demonstrate and maintain compliance, improve service levels and reduce operational costs. SailPoint’s solutions address the pressing authentication, authorization, administration and governance challenges that organizations face today – diverse populations of employees, partners and consumers; mission-critical applications that must be secured inside the datacenter and in the cloud; and the emergence of “anytime, anywhere” access via personal/mobile devices. The company serves a wide spectrum of industries and manages many of the largest IAM implementations in the world – with thousands of applications, hundreds of thousands of users and millions of entitlements.
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Segall Bryant Hamill
2019/09/03
Segall Bryant & Hamill (SBH) is an independent firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Denver, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Naples, Florida. The firm was established in 1994. SBH offers a range of investment strategies and customized solutions for institutional, advisor and wealth management clients, including domestic, international and global equity, fixed income and alternatives. The firm has approximately $20 billion of assets under management or advisement.
Sirius
2017/08/12
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SolarWinds
2018/08/12
SolarWinds is the leading provider of IT and infrastructure management solutions for IT professionals. Its powerful and affordable hybrid IT infrastructure management software is used by customers worldwide, from Fortune 500® enterprises to small businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. SolarWinds delivers products that are easy to find, buy, use, maintain and scale while providing the power to address all key areas of the information technology infrastructure, from on-premises to the Cloud. Users are able to interact in the company’s thwack® online community to solve problems, share technology and best practices and directly participate in the product development process.
SonicWall
2017/08/12
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Sophos
2020/03/02
As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today's most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs - a global threat intelligence and data science team - Sophos' cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more. The award-winning Sophos Central cloud-based platform integrates Sophos' entire portfolio of best-of-breed products, from the Intercept X endpoint solution to the XG Firewall, into a single system called Synchronized Security. Sophos products are exclusively available through a global channel of more than 53,000 partners and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home.
Sparta Systems
2019/01/02
Sparta Systems, an industry pioneer and global leading provider of enterprise quality management solutions (EQMS), enables businesses to safely and efficiently deliver their products to market. Its TrackWise EQMS, a trusted standard among highly regulated industries, is used by quality, manufacturing and regulatory affairs professionals to manage compliance, reduce risk and improve safety across the global enterprise. Headquartered in Hamilton, N.J. and with locations across Europe and Asia, Sparta Systems maintains an extensive install base in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology, medical device, electronics manufacturing and consumer products markets.
SRS
2018/01/12
SRS is the healthcare industry leader in productivity-enhancing electronic health records (EHR) and healthcare IT (HCIT) solutions for specialists and other high-performance physicians. With over 5,000 providers, the EHR company has built the largest national network of high-performance practices successfully using EHR. Preeminent among orthopaedists, SRS is also the solution of choice among prominent ophthalmologists, cardiologists, and other specialists. The company also offers practice management, patient portal, transcription, and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) solutions, all of which are integrated with its government-certified EHR via the Unified Desktop™.
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Syntellis
2017/08/12
Syntellis Performance Solutions, previously Kaufman Hall Software, provides innovative enterprise performance management software, data and analytics solutions for healthcare, higher education, and financial institutions. Syntellis’ solutions include Axiom and Connected Analytics software, which help finance professionals elevate performance by acquiring insights, accelerating decisions, and advancing their business plans. With over 2,800 organizations and 450,000 users relying on its solutions, Syntellis has proven industry expertise in helping organizations transform their vision into reality.
Telestream
2017/08/12
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T2 Systems
2019/01/12
T2 Systems is the largest parking technology provider in North America, with more than 24 years in the parking management industry and currently serving thousands of parking professionals. T2 integrates the best people, processes and technology for powerful, high performance and secure parking solutions. Its open technology and processes are used to manage more than 200 million parking transactions for over 2 billion dollars annually across all 50 states and ten provinces in Canada. Customers rely on T2 for multi-space pay stations, permit management, enforcement, LPR, PARCS, vehicle counting, citation services and event parking.
TRADER
2019/01/10
TRADER Corporation is Canada’s largest digital automotive marketplace and provides the most comprehensive set of marketing software solutions to Canadian automotive dealers. Its market leading online properties — autoTRADER.ca™, autoHEBDO.net™ and Autos.ca — bring together Canada’s largest audience of in‐market car shoppers with Canada’s most comprehensive and detailed inventory of new and used vehicle listings. The company also provides its auto dealer customers with software solutions that enable them to make smarter and faster business, inventory and marketing decisions.
Sebastian Baldwin
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go.trader.caTravelClick
2017/08/12
TravelClick provides innovative, revenue‐generating, cloud‐based solutions for the global hospitality industry. TravelClick’s solutions for hotels around the globe increase revenue, reduce cost, improve performance and create a stronger brand. The company’s suite of products and services includes: reservations solutions, business intelligence solutions, media solutions, web solutions and guest management, all designed to integrate seamlessly with one another to comprehensively address the needs of hotel operators. Thoma Bravo acquired the company in 2014 from another private equity firm and helped the company add key new management positions, execute strategic add-on acquisitions, and make changes in how its products were marketed. We also invested in updating and enhancing the functionality of a core product. TravelClick was sold in late 2018 to Amadeus IT Group SA, a major publicly traded Spanish provider of software for the global travel and tourism industry.
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Tripwire, Inc.
2017/08/12
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Venafi
2017/08/12
Venafi is the cybersecurity market leader in and the inventor of machine identity management, securing machine-to-machine connections and communications. Venafi protects machine identity types by orchestrating cryptographic keys and digital certificates for SSL/TLS, SSH, code signing, mobile and IoT. Venafi provides global visibility of machine identities and the risks associated with them for the extended enterprise—on premises, mobile, virtual, cloud and IoT—at machine speed and scale. Venafi puts this intelligence into action with automated remediation that reduces the security and availability risks connected with weak or compromised machine identities while safeguarding the flow of information to trusted machines and preventing communication with machines that are not trusted. With more than 30 patents, Venafi delivers innovative solutions for the world's most demanding, security-conscious Global 5000 organizations and government agencies.
Veracode
2017/08/12
Veracode is a leading provider of application security testing (AST) software, offering a full suite of AST tools and professional services. The company’s SaaS platform and integrated solutions enable software developers to test development code for security flaws and deficiencies and offer guidance on how to revise code to be more secure, resulting in safer, harder to breach software applications and without sacrificing speed or innovation.
Veriforce
2017/10/17
Veriforce®, created by the merger of Veriforce and PEC in early 2019, is a leading provider of supply chain risk management and compliance solutions. The company’s modern SaaS platform, industry-standard training programs and content, and an accredited network of safety trainers and evaluators deliver the industry’s most comprehensive and effective solution. Enterprise clients depend on Veriforce to identify and mitigate risk within their contractor base at the company and individual worker level to ensure safe and efficient worksites. The company boasts the world’s most extensive safety and compliance network in the world, comprised of over 350 hiring clients, 25 thousand contractor companies, 11 thousand accredited trainers and evaluators, and 2 million individual workers.
Colby Lane
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Mandeville, LA and Houston, TX
Vision Solutions in the News
2017/08/12
Vision Solutions is a premier provider of high availability, disaster recovery and protection, and migration solutions for multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, IBM’s System i, AIX and Cloud. The firm’s product portfolio delivers near-zero downtime data migrations, shares data in real-time across platforms, and moves, protects and restores data, applications and operating systems of any kind on any combination of physical, virtual or cloud servers. Thoma Bravo acquired the business in 2006 by completing a take-private transaction on the Johannesburg, South Africa, Stock Exchange and immediately began an industry consolidation strategy that resulted in the acquisition of two of the largest companies in the market (iTera and Lakeview Technologies), followed by the take-private acquisition of Double-Take Software, Inc. This greatly strengthened Visions market position, broadened its platform and created the largest provider of cross platform high availability software. After almost ten years of growth Vision was sold to another private equity firm.
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Zipari
2017/08/12
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Zipari is a healthcare technology company that develops products for health insurance carriers to engage with consumers in new and innovative ways. With unsurpassed technology, Zipari’s products provide real-time insights at every touchpoint, delivering value to health insurance payers with breakthrough experiences for all of their consumers. Zipari serves more than 40 million members via their payer and TPA customers.
NOTE: The descriptions associated with this partial list of prior investments are intended to illustrate business performance that Thoma Bravo believes to be representative of the companies in which it invests. Performance can and does differ within any private equity investment portfolio.
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