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Redstart puts a cofounder on the cap table
The Paris startup studio trades daily operating help for a minority stake. Its real subject is everything that happens between a promising idea and a business that can stand on its own.
The Generator Company Buying the Boring Work Behind Keeping the Lights On
Power Support Partners is assembling local generator companies across the Southeast, then giving them the systems, people and data to grow. Its wager is simple: a familiar name in the driveway can still benefit from an industrial-strength back office.
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 Fund That Runs the Warehouse Before It Writes the Check
Most food VCs write a check and wait. Siddhi Capital shows up with a supply-chain team - and a thesis that the next decade of consumer eating gets rewritten by weight-loss drugs.
Alloy Roofing
Alloy Roofing is buying a national footprint without painting over the names on the trucks. Its wager is that local trust and centralized muscle can share the same roof.