Frontenac
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Frontenac is a Chicago-based private equity firm that invests in lower middle market companies in the consumer, industrial, and services sectors. It focuses on growth buyouts and partners with experienced executives through its CEO1ST approach.
Frontenac is a private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, United States, founded in 1971. It invests directly in companies, from growth to buyout, in consumer, industrial and services. Its stated cheque size is $50M – $150M Equity Investment. $3.8 B under management and 350 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“At Frontenac, our strategy is to invest in well-positioned, growing, and profitable privately-held businesses as they address complex transition issues of liquidity, management enhancement, and growth planning.”
— Frontenac, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Invests in
- North America
- Sectors
- Consumer, Industrial, Services
- Cheque size
- $50M – $150M Equity Investment
- Founded
- 1971
- Assets under management
- $3.8 B
- Portfolio
- 350 companies
Team, as Frontenac publishes it
- Walter Florence Managing Partner
- Ronald Kuehl Managing Partner
- Michael Langdon Managing Partner
- Joseph Rondinelli Managing Director
- Neal Sahney Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Resources Group
- Elizabeth Williamson Managing Director
- Paul Carbery Senior Advisor
- Jacob Anderson Vice President
- Brian Bai Director, Corporate Development
- Gabriel Becerra Director of Development
- Julie Bender CFO, CCO
- Sean Callahan Partner, Value Creation
Names and roles exactly as listed on frontenac.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 18 co-investors found.
- BOLD Capital Partners 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- Glasswing Ventures 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- ISAI 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- Link Ventures 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- OSS Capital, LLC 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- PWV Capital Management LLC 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- Samsung Next 1 shared company: liquid.ai
- Bonfire Ventures 1 shared company: honkforhelp.com
- Hinge Capital 1 shared company: honkforhelp.com
- Eyre Street Capital 1 shared company: lighthouse.ai
and 8 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Frontenac publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://frontenac.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://frontenac.com/strategy/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size
- https://frontenac.com/team/people
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