Graham Partners Named to Inc.'s Founder-Friendly Investors List for Fourth Consecutive Year

Strives to continue forging strong partnerships with family-owned, tech-forward businesses

PHILADELPHIA | October 29, 2024 – Graham Partners ("Graham") is pleased to announce its inclusion in Inc.'s 2024 list of "Founder-Friendly Investors" for the fourth year in a row. Inc.'s list honors private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders that Inc. feels entrepreneurs can trust to receive the support they need to help accelerate growth. Graham Partners is grateful to be included again this year.

To compile the list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with these firms and shared details on how their companies have grown during these partnerships.¹

Graham Partners’ deep family industrial heritage that dates back to 1960, when entrepreneur Donald C. Graham, Steve Graham's father, founded a design engineering firm in a central Pennsylvania farmhouse basement. This ultimately spawned what Graham believes to be three successful advanced manufacturing businesses, which laid the groundwork for the legacy of The Graham Group. Steve Graham, CEO of Graham Partners, said, "We believe in the power of partnering with forward-thinking entrepreneurs who are committed to fostering innovation within their businesses, and we aim to carry out Don Graham's entrepreneurial legacy in all that we do."

To see the full list of firms that received Inc.'s stamp of approval, click the link below.

ABOUT GRAHAM PARTNERS

Graham Partners is a private investment firm focused on investing in technology-driven companies that are spurring innovation in advanced manufacturing, resulting in product substitutions, raw materials conversions, and disruptions to traditional end markets. Graham Partners can offer control or minority capital solutions and typically targets companies with EBITDA up to $50 million. Since the firm's founding in 1988 by Steven Graham, Graham Partners has closed over 160 acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and divestitures. The committed capital raised since inception through the Graham Partners funds together with Graham-led co-investments totals approximately $6.2 billion as of September 30, 2024, which differs from Graham’s Regulatory Assets Under Management of approximately $4.0 billion as of September 30, 2024. Investors include high-net-worth individuals, college and university endowments, foundations, pension plans, insurance companies, funds-of-funds, and other institutional investors. Based in suburban Philadelphia, the firm has access to extensive operating resources and industrial expertise and is a member of The Graham Group, an alliance of independent operating businesses, investment firms and philanthropic entities, which all share in the common legacy of entrepreneur Donald Graham.



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  

Business Development, Buyouts: Courtland Scaccetti (cscaccetti@grahampartners.net)

Business Development, Growth: Brittany Martin (bmartin@grahampartners.net)

Investor Relations: Christina Morin (cmorin@grahampartners.net)

¹Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors list includes private equity firms identified by Inc.’s editors or those that submitted an application to Inc. for inclusion. Graham Partners submitted an application for inclusion on this list and paid $995 to Inc. in connection with its application. Graham was notified by Inc. in July 2024 of its inclusion on this list. The application was based on companies Graham Partners has exited since January 1, 2019.

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This press release is for informational purposes and is not an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United States or elsewhere. Graham Partners is not utilizing this release to provide investment or other advice, and no information disclosed therein is to be relied upon for the purpose of making investment decisions. Past performance does not guarantee future results and any transactions described are included as representative transactions and are not necessarily reflective of overall performance. It should not be assumed that any investment described herein was or will be profitable. There can be no assurance that historical trends will continue. Graham Partners' market characterization is based on subjective determinations that it believes reasonable but others may disagree with such characterization. There is no guarantee that Graham Partners' initiatives will drive value for its investments or accelerate growth or lead Graham Partners' investments to become profitable.