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Michael Vellano Built a Company Around the Streets Nobody Wants to Dig Up
A fourth-generation waterworks operator turned a century of family know-how into a modern playbook: repair what lies beneath cities, buy capabilities with care, and let field crews improve the technology.
ATCO’s 15-Trailer Playbook for Building What Everyone Needs - and Surviving What Breaks
ATCO grew from 15 utility trailers into a C$28 billion-asset group by pairing dependable networks with buildings that can move. Its next test is whether that same portfolio logic can absorb grid bottlenecks, policy uncertainty and a C$2.9 billion pipeline bet.
BayPine Is Buying the Businesses Tech Forgot
The Boston private-equity firm sees outdated software as unfinished business. Its wager is that better systems, cleaner data and practical AI can make established companies grow differently.
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 Private Equity Firm That Still Thinks Like a Sawmill
Jones Capital grew out of a one-site Mississippi sawmill, then turned seven decades of operating lessons into a private-capital playbook. Its pitch to founders is unusually plain: patient money, practical help and no predetermined exit clock.
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.
The Billion-Dollar Infrastructure Problem Vortex Fixes Without Digging Up the Street
Vortex built a one-roof business around an unglamorous civic bargain: renew the pipe, keep the city moving. Its mix of materials, machines, monitoring and field crews shows how infrastructure work is becoming a systems business.