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Our Client-Partners:

GT&A has had the privilege of helping some 100
emerging technology firms build literally billions of dollars
in shareholder value over the 20+ years of its existence.
Here's just a partial list of our client experience...


  • Agiliti Inc. (acquired by VeriCenter)

  • Intradyn Inc.

  • Datalink

  • CNT (acquired by McData)

  • QLogic

  • Adaptec

  • Virtucom Group

  • FlexStor (a spinout of Rorke Data)

  • BestBuy.com (subsidiary of Best Buy Co.)

  • Cingular Wireless (via VSA Partners)

  • Medtronic Inc.

  • 3M Company

  • American Medical Systems (acquired by Pfizer, later spun out in IPO)

  • Control Data (later Ceridian)

  • VTC Inc. (acquired by Lucent)

  • Apogee Enterprises / Harmon AutoGlass

  • Secure Computing Corporation (a successful, early Internet IPO)

  • EDI Solutions Inc. (acquired by St. Paul Software, now SPS Commerce)

  • Investment Advisers Inc.

  • IAI Venture Capital

  • Datakey Inc. (acquired)

  • DataCard / Smart Cards & Systems

  • Transition Networks (acquired by Communications Systems Inc.)

  • DDS Inc. (SAP training firm, acquired)

  • Creative Internet Solutions (acquired by Control Data Systems, now Syntegra)

  • UbiQ Inc. (acquired by NBS Technologies)

  • TE&J/InterAction (renamed LogicBay)

  • Connect Computer (acquired by Norstan)

  • Norstan Inc.

  • The Smaby Group / Square One Ventures

  • Cartia Inc. (acquired by Amazon.com)

  • Media Science Inc. (renamed Cognicity)

  • USWeb Corporation (acquired by Whittman-Hart, renamed marchFirst)

  • NaviCare Systems Inc.

  • MRNet (acquired by MEANS Telcom, renamed Onvoy)

  • Intrek Corporation (renamed Eliance)

  • Digital Velocity (acquired by TelePacific Communications)

  • ZeroFriction Commerce Inc.

  • Future Pages LLC

  • Meritide Inc.

  • KnowHowZone.com

  • Techies.com

  • Net Perceptions (a client when private, then later after successful IPO)

  • And many other winning companies!


For more information, please email:

Graeme Thickins
Founder & President

Or call: 952-944-9748




References:

  • Jay Hare, Partner, Technology Practice
    PricewaterhouseCoopers, Minneapolis
    612-596-6347

  • David Tushie, President/Cofounder
    UbiQ Inc. (acquired by NBS Technologies) -
    now an independent smart card technology consultant
    612-747-6553

  • Gary Smaby, Partner
    Quatris Fund (a seed-stage venture capital fund) -
    now also VC-in-Residence at the U of MN Carlson School
    612-376-7333

  • Tom Kieffer, Serial Entrepreneur
    Founder: Connect (acquired by Norstan),
    Agiliti (acquired by VeriCenter),
    and (in 2005) Virteva

    612-636-0300




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