Thoma Cressey Bravo, formerly Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, is an American private equity and growth capital firm based in Chicago and San Francisco. As of 2008, the firm has raised more than $1.5 billion in investor commitments.
The firm principally invests in high-growth industries, including health care and software.
Thoma Cressey invests through a series of private limited partnerships and its investors include a variety of pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors. Following its separation from GTCR (discussed below), Thoma Cressey has raised three private equity funds:
- 1998 — Fund VI, ($450 million)
- 2001 — Fund VII ($555 million)
- 2006 — Fund VIII ($765 million)
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