October 6, 2022

Frontenac Named to Inc.’s 2022 List of Founder-Friendly Investors

Chicago, IL

Frontenac announced today that it has been named to Inc.’s 2022 Founder-Friendly Investors List, an annual list that recognizes investors with an established track record of providing meaningful support to founders and entrepreneurs as they scale their business. The final list recognizes 184 firms that, according to Inc., entrepreneurs can trust and collaborate with while receiving the financial support they need to help accelerate growth.

“This is a special recognition for Frontenac as we pride ourselves on being a solutions-oriented partner to the founders and entrepreneurs we work with,” said Walter Florence, Managing Director at Frontenac. “We’ve collaborated with over 275 businesses across the consumer, industrial, and services verticals throughout our history, many of those founder- or entrepreneur-backed, and we’ve always focused on together crafting a shared vision and value creation plan with our management teams and founders.”

To compile the list, Inc. directly reached out to founders and entrepreneurs who have partnered with venture capitalists or sold to private equity. Founders filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with the firms and shared data on how their portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships.

“Frontenac was built on the idea that partnership between high potential companies and high caliber entrepreneurs and management teams are the cornerstone of successful investing. For more than 50 years, Frontenac has partnered with countless founders and entrepreneurs to execute on this strategy,” said Teri Tadros, Director of Business Development at Frontenac. “We are humbled by the recognition from the entrepreneurs and founders we have had the pleasure of working with”.

To see the complete list, go to: Founder Friendly Investors 2022.

About Inc.

The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community they need to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit inc.com.

About Frontenac

Frontenac is a Chicago-based private equity firm. The firm focuses on investing in lower middle market buyout transactions in the consumer, industrial, and services industries. Frontenac works in partnership with established operating leaders, through an executive-centric approach called CEO1ST, which seeks to identify, acquire, and build market-leading companies through transformational acquisitions and operational excellence. Over the last 50+ years, Frontenac has built a leading franchise working with over 275 owners of mid-sized businesses as they address complex transition issues of liquidity, management enhancement, and growth planning. For more information, please visit frontenac.com.

Disclaimer

The “Founder-Friendly Investors” award is a program designed by Inc. Magazine to help founder-led companies accelerate growth and create revenue. Private equity and venture capital firms that have exited U.S.-based, founder-led portfolio companies are eligible to apply. For investments to qualify, portfolio company founders must have remained actively involved in their business for at least one-year post-investment. Winning firms are selected based upon their investments and founder references. Frontenac is not aware of the number of advisers surveyed for the award. Like all entrants, Frontenac paid a fee to be considered for this award. This award is not to be construed as indicative of Frontenac’s future performance. Reference to an award is only one piece of information relevant to an evaluation of an investment adviser such as Frontenac. Finally, this award represents information as of a specific date and time and may not reflect important information related to an evaluation of the investment adviser which has occurred prior to, or subsequent to, the award.