Carl Press

Carl Press is a Partner on the Explore team at Thoma Bravo. Based in San Francisco, he joined the firm in 2015. Carl is responsible for founding and co-leading the firm’s Explore platform, which focuses on investing in high-growth, middle-market software and technology companies. GrowthCap named Carl to its list of Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors for 2021. Prior to Thoma Bravo, he was a technology investor at HighBar Partners, an Associate in the Special Situations Group at Oaktree Capital Management, and an Analyst at UBS Investment Bank. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at SLS Preschool. Carl holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a BS in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.