1st & Main Growth Partners
1standmain.co Direct + LP
1st & Main Growth Partners is an investment firm that manages funds focused on subregional financial services companies and fintech companies. It provides capital and strategic support to banks and technology firms in the financial sector.
1st & Main Growth Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, United States. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from growth to buyout, in financial services, fintech, payments and financial software. Its stated cheque size is Equity checks of $1M-$12M (Banc Funds); Equity checks of $1M-$5M (Fintech Funds).
“We invest in tech companies shaping the future of finance.”
— 1st & Main Growth Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- United States
- Sectors
- financial services, fintech, payments, financial software, core systems, online lending, artificial intelligence, blockchain
- Cheque size
- Equity checks of $1M-$12M (Banc Funds); Equity checks of $1M-$5M (Fintech Funds)
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 28 co-investors found.
- Deciens Capital 2 shared companies: treasuryprime.com, truelinkfinancial.com
- GMO VenturePartners 2 shared companies: treasuryprime.com, truelinkfinancial.com
- Commerce Ventures 2 shared companies: kasisto.com, neuralpayments.com
- Oak HC/FT 2 shared companies: kasisto.com, ocrolus.com
- Next Level Ventures, LLC 2 shared companies: neuralpayments.com, nymbus.com
- Patriot Financial Manager, L.P. 2 shared companies: grasshopper.bank, oldsecond.com
- Endicott Capital 2 shared companies: calprivate.bank, unitybank.com
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 1 shared company: tilled.com
- Salt VC 1 shared company: tilled.com
- FINTOP Capital 1 shared company: treasuryprime.com
and 18 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page 1st & Main Growth Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://1standmain.co/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, description, status
- https://1standmain.co/strategy/layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://1standmain.co/strategy/banc-funds/type
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Record 5813 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence medium
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