October 29, 2024

Frontenac Named to Inc.’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors

Chicago, IL – Frontenac announced today that it has been named to Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List, an annual list that recognizes investors committed to partnering with entrepreneurs to accelerate their businesses. The list recognizes 269 firms that, according to Inc., entrepreneurs can trust and collaborate with while receiving the financial support they need to help accelerate growth.

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

For more than 50 years, Frontenac has partnered with over 300 owners of mid-sized businesses as they address complex transition issues of liquidity, management enhancement, and growth planning.

To see the complete list, please visit: Founder Friendly Investors 2024.


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, please visit www.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 franchise working with over 300 owners of mid-sized businesses as they address complex transition issues of liquidity, management enhancement, and growth planning. For more information, please visit www.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, venture capital firms and lenders 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 track record, reputation, leadership 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 and pays a fee to Inc. Magazine to use the collateral associated with the use of the award and logo. 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. More information about the Founder-Friendly Investors methodology is available here.