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The Private Equity Firm That Would Rather Walk the Shop Floor
LFM Capital built a $1 billion-plus investing platform around an unfashionable conviction: the best way to understand a factory is to have run one. Its engineers-turned-investors bring capital, operating muscle and a respect for the companies they buy.
The Investors Who Stay for the Whole Story
For more than three decades, Baird Capital has backed founder-led B2B technology and services companies from an early venture check to a late-stage buyout - one global team, one employee-owned firm, and a preference for the sectors most people scroll past.
The Quiet Firm Turning Bootstrapped Software Into a $7 Billion Bet
Serent Capital has spent 18 years backing founder-led software companies that never chased venture capital. Now it manages more than $7 billion and just closed the largest fund in its history.
The Private Equity Firm That Treats Growth Like a Software Bug
Turn/River does not sell founders on money alone. Its pitch is a laboratory for revenue - embedded operators, weekly tests, and a concentrated portfolio where one company’s lesson can become another company’s play.
The Fund That Never Sells: How Tide Rock Turned 21 Boring Businesses Into a $1 Billion Machine
Most private equity firms rent companies for five years and flip them. Tide Rock buys them with cash, keeps them forever, and mails owners a check every quarter. It is a quieter idea - and it has compounded into more than a billion dollars of buying power.
The Private Equity Firm That Would Rather Own More and Owe Less
Heartwood Partners built its pitch around an unfashionable idea in buyouts: use less debt, leave managers with meaningful ownership, and give operating teams room to grow. In a market trained to chase leverage, restraint has become the product.
The Firm That Buys Companies Nobody Wants - and a Football Club Everybody Watches
Clearlake turned a distressed-debt strategy into a $90 billion machine by fixing unglamorous companies - then bought a Premier League club to prove the point.
Wind Point Hires the CEO First. Then It Goes Shopping for a Company.
For 42 years the Chicago firm has run the buyout playbook in reverse - recruiting a billion-dollar operator before it writes a check. In July it closed a $3.2 billion fund to keep doing it.
The Private Equity Firm That Grew Out of a Turnaround Shop
Born from one of the world's best-known restructuring firms, A&M Capital bets that operators, not just financiers, make the better owners of mid-sized companies.
The Quiet Compounders of Park Avenue
For 40-plus years, Harvest Partners has bought unglamorous middle-market companies and held them long enough to matter. Here is how a relationship-first shop on Park Avenue turned patience into a $20-billion franchise.
The Pritzkers Built Hyatt and Marmon. Now They Buy the Companies Nobody Will Sell to a Fund.
Tony Pritzker turned a family fortune built on Hyatt and the Marmon Group into a private equity firm that sells patience - and just raised $3.4 billion on the promise it will not rush the exit.
The Firm That Buys Boring and Sells Big
For 40-plus years, DFW Capital Partners has made its money on the companies nobody puts on a magazine cover - fleet washers, infusion clinics, surgical centers - and turned quiet cash flow into a $2 billion track record.
Sonya Brown
Sonya Brown is a General Partner and Co-Head of Growth Equity at Norwest Venture Partners, a leading venture and growth equity firm managing over $12.5 billion in capital. With more than 20 years of investment experience spanning Bear Stearns, iXL Ventures, and Summit Partners, she joined Norwest in 2011 and has built a reputation as one of the most influential investors in consumer products, e-commerce, retail, and business services. Her portfolio includes Babylist, Madison Reed, Kendra Scott, and PCA Skin. A perennial honoree on M&A's Most Influential Women list, she is equally recognized for her work advancing diversity and inclusion in private equity.
David Andrews
R. David Andrews is the Founder and Co-CEO of Gryphon Investors, a San Francisco-based middle-market private equity firm he launched in 1995 with a distinctive 'Deal-Ops' model that integrated deep operational expertise into every investment long before it became industry fashion. A triple Stanford alumnus (B.A. Economics, J.D., M.B.A.), Andrews spent his early career at Salomon Brothers, Shearson Lehman Brothers, and Oak Hill Partners before charting his own course managing $10+ billion in assets across healthcare, business services, industrials, consumer products, and software - serving as chairman or director of over 50 companies along the way.