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ShadowHornet's Maniacal Focus on your ROI

Listen to how our unique approach creates results for you from minute 1, unlike traditional consultants! They're the old, we're the new. 

We Are

  • Organizational operations experts who understand how to help organizations quickly achieve favorable outcomes.

  • Advisors to private equity and venture backed businesses, and publicly-traded clients.

  • ​Former advisors to the White House on technology-based workforce development, broadband, LATAM, and entrepreneurial funding. 

We're Different Because 

We're not ivory tower Powerpoint jockeys - we work side-by-side with you, focusing on ROI and goals, drawing from our experience as former private equity executives and C-Level operators.

 

Our unique perspective at the intersection of tech and operations helps you understand how today's decisions impact future valuation and exits and how to modernize long-standing businesses without disruption. We recognize that technology isn't always the best solution to achieving your goals. 

We work with

  • Companies who want to achieve bold and ambitious goals. 

  • Leaders who look at outcomes first - and ask why before how…

We Believe 

  • In honesty and transparency, even when it doesn’t benefit us.

  • In hard work, ethics, and trust.

  • In a maniacal focus on your ROI and achieving your goals.

The ShadowHornet - our best Strategic Advisor on energy, electric / grid modernization, natural gas, methanol, and more

ShadowHornet By The Numbers​​

  • > 600 M&A due diligence assessments​

  • 11 M&A deal closes (buy and sell side)

  • 400+ active business relationships

  • $49B in deal value

  • 40 collective years of full lifecycle M&A deal experience

  • PE and operator executive experience

  • On-the-ground personnel network in 11 countries

ShadowHornet Managing Director​​

Thomas Mirc

General Partner, Managing Director

ShadowHornet started as KeyOak Advisors in 2015, and since then has grown into a strategic advisory and active venture firm with a general partner, and four limited partners. It is currently led by Thomas Mirc, who ran Battery Ventures' telecom platform company, VertiGIS U.S., and had M&A leadership roles supporting Bertlesmann Investments, Red Hat and Smith Breeden (now Pioneer Fund). 

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