Hughes & Company
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Hughes & Company is a private investment firm focused exclusively on lower middle market healthcare software and technology-enabled service companies. It makes minority and majority control investments, including growth equity, leveraged buyouts, spin-outs, and strategic combinations.
Hughes & Company is a private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, United States. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in healthcare software and technology-enabled services. Its stated cheque size is $5 million and $50 million+ per company.
“Hughes & Company invests in lower middle market healthcare software and technology-enabled service companies where we see the potential to create substantial value through revenue and EBITDA growth.”
— Hughes & Company, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Sectors
- healthcare software, technology-enabled services
- Cheque size
- $5 million and $50 million+ per company
- How to reach it
- Its contact page on its own site
Team, as Hughes & Company publishes it
- Travis Hughes Managing Partner & Founder
- Jim Denny, Jr. Managing Partner
- Naile Kovuk Managing Partner
- Ken Manning Managing Partner
- Matt Simas Managing Partner
- Anthony Luchetta Partner
- Chip Locke Head of Product & AI Transformation
- Eric Kim Vice President
- Jay Dave Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer
- Caroline Denny Vice President, Head of Talent
- Scott Livingston Senior Associate
- Yash Patel Senior Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on hughes-co.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 4 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Flare Capital Partners 1 shared company: evolenthealth.com
- Elevate Ventures 1 shared company: curvolabs.com
- August Capital 1 shared company: patientiq.io
- Health Enterprise Partners 1 shared company: patientiq.io
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Hughes & Company publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://hughes-co.com/name, is_investor, thesis_quote, stage_min, stage_max, approach_url
- https://hughes-co.com/investment-strategy/layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, description
- https://hughes-co.com/team/people
- https://hughes-co.com/portfolio/status
- https://hughes-co.com/contact/hq_country, hq_city
Record 9022 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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