OUR INVESTORS

Frontenac’s investor community matches our investment strategy.

Our firm began with a single family investor, Laird Norton Company, in 1971. Since then our experience with family offices has given us a clear understanding of their goals as taxable investors – and thus a shared focus on maximizing long-term, after-tax capital appreciation.

The capital for our current fund, Frontenac IX Private Capital LP, comes from 70 families and a few financial institutions, all of whom share our orientation toward patiently building closely-held, mid-sized businesses. Because of our investors' long investment horizon we are able, when appropriate, to retain our portfolio companies for many more years than a typical investment firm.

Our investors bring us far more than capital, and contribute actively to our firm's success: they are instrumental in providing counsel, and in introducing us both to CEO1ST executives and to the kind of quality companies in which we seek to invest.