Bancroft Thayer Holdings, LLC is a private investment firm founded by John Oliver and Jay Crabtree to facilitate business acquisitions, recapitalizations, management buy-outs and buy-ins, family successions, and other ownership transitions.Our focus is on small companies in growing industry segments with pre tax earnings of $0.5 to $2.0 million. We do not seek to work with start-ups, emerging technology, real estate or the oil and gas industry.