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.
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.
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.