Harvest Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle market industrial, business services, consumer and retail companies.
The firm, which was founded in 1981 by Harvey Mallement and Harvey Wertheim, is based in New York City. Prior to co-founding Harvest, Mallement was managing partner of Masco Associates, making private equity investments on behalf of Masco Corporation and Wertheim managed venture capital and private equity investment activities at Research and Science Investors, a venture capital and investment management firm.
Since inception, Harvest has raised approximately $1.9 billion of investor capital across five investment funds:
- 1992 - $20m - Harvest Partners I
- 1996 - $120m - Harvest Partners II
- 1997 - $362m - Harvest Partners III
- 2002 - $558m - Harvest Partners IV
- 2006 - $815m - Harvest Partners V
Famous quotes containing the words harvest and/or partners:
“Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
—Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
“Let’s face it. With the singular exception of breast-feeding, there is nothing about infant care that a mother is innately better qualified to do than a father. Yet we continue to unconsciously perpetuate the myth that men just don’t have what it takes to be true partners in the process.”
—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)