The firm, which was founded in 1981 by Harvey Mallement and Harvey Wertheim, is based in New York City. Prior to co-founding Harvest, Mallement was managing partner of Masco Associates, making private equity investments on behalf of Masco Corporation[2] and Wertheim managed venture capital and private equity investment activities at Research and Science Investors, a venture capital and investment management firm.
Since inception, Harvest has raised approximately $5 billion of investor capital across seven investment funds:
In October 2018, Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Petershill program made a strategic minority investment in Harvest Partners representing 15 percent of the firm.[7]