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Harris and Harris Group, Inc. builds transformative companies from disruptive science. We leverage our core scientific expertise to be FIRST in identifying new technology trends, in accessing high quality science and intellectual property, in building management teams and in executing on early-stage business growth. Our PROVEN team has the unique ability to identify and diligence the network of discoveries that come from understanding science at the intersection of different scientific disciplines, with biology as a focus. This places us at the center of the discoveries impacting some of the most important growth sectors of the economy, permitting us to build TRANSFORMATIVE companies. BIOLOGY+ is our distinctive approach. We define BIOLOGY+ as investments in interdisciplinary life science companies where biology innovation is intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. We focus on this intersection because we believe interdisciplinary innovation will be required in order to address many of the life science challenges of the future.
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity firm with a 40-year history, including over $73 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2020, and a focus on investing in software and technology companies. We pioneered the buy-and-build investment strategy, and we first applied this strategy to the software and technology industries nearly 20 years ago. Since then, our firm has acquired more than 270 software and technology companies representing over $79 billion of value. Our investment philosophy is centered around working collaboratively with existing management teams to drive superior operating results and innovation. We execute through a partnership-driven approach supported by a set of management principles, operating metrics and business processes. We support our companies by investing in growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions that drive long-term value.
Alta Communications is a Boston, MA-based company in the Financial Services sector.
GAMCO Investors, Inc. (NYSE: GBL) is a pioneer in value equity and is recognized to have developed the Private Market Value with a Catalyst™ stock selection process. This time-tested investment approach has been utilized in client portfolios since our firm`s inception in 1977. Today GAMCO provides solutions across value and growth equity asset classes, socially responsive, convertibles, industry sector-specific funds, merger arbitrage, and fixed income. The firm`s offerings include client-directed customized separate accounts, open and closed-end mutual funds, and SMAs. GAMCO`s investment process is based upon bottom-up, fundamental investing and security selection is the primary source of alpha generation. Rigorous company and sector research, combined with long-term accumulated knowledge of sectors and companies over decades, created our information advantage. Our portfolios tend to realize high active share: we seek to uncover opportunities overlooked by most investors.