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Trovare Private Equity was created to focus exclusively on making private equity investments in middle market companies in partnership with management across a broad spectrum of opportunities throughout the United States. Trovare sponsors investments in management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth financings, as well as in distressed companies via restructurings and recapitalizations. Through disciplined and diligent investment selection, active involvement with its portfolio companies, and reliance on the operating skills of its management partners, Trovare expects to achieve superior rates of return.

In most of its investments, Trovare is the lead equity investor and has a controlling interest in the portfolio company though we will consider minority investments where we can obtain adequate shareholder rights. Trovare is dedicated to executing well-structured investments that minimize risk while providing superior returns to all investors. In all cases, its role will be that of an owner and active member of the board of directors.

Trovare specializes in management buyouts. Trovare's investing activities are made on behalf of itself and its investors. As the general partner of the Trovare Funds, we make our money just as our investors do, by the increased value over time of our stake in the Funds' investments. We have a significant portion of our personal assets committed to these investments, and we share the risks of ownership.

Trovare's capital may be used to provide full or partial liquidity to entrepreneurs, family members, passive investors or corporate owners. Alternatively, its investment may take the form of a capital infusion to a company seeking to finance growth or to consummate an acquisition.

Trovare pursues investments in which the firm brings more than just money. Our experienced investment team leverages Trovare's resources, experience and franchise to the benefit of smaller portfolio companies. Trovare's investment professionals provide a sophisticated investment approach designed to support management's vision for growth and value creation. Trovare is engineered to meet the unique needs of entrepreneurially-led growth companies as well as the needs of companies in the midst of a distress situation.

Trovare endeavors to be a leader in the private equity community. Our goal as an institution is to be the vehicle by which our partners deploy capital and achieve superior returns on investment that exceed those earned through the public stock markets, as measured by the various mid- and small-cap indexes. The keys to our successes include: the patience to remain focused and invest wisely; the proactivity that enables us to maximize our investment portfolio's value; and the creativity to see the hidden value that others do not see.

Trovare's capital is provided by a select number of sophisticated private and institutional investors. The principals of Trovare have also committed a substantial amount of their own capital to each Fund.