10/30/24
Clarion Capital Partners Named as 2024 Inc. Magazine Founder-Friendly Investor Clarion Capital Partners Named as 2024 Inc. Magazine Founder-Friendly Investor
Clarion Capital Partners, LLC (“Clarion” or the “Firm”) is excited to announce its inclusion in Inc. Magazine’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List.
Since 2019, the Founder-Friendly Investors list has been a leading resource for entrepreneurs who want to grow their companies while retaining an ownership stake. The award honors private equity and venture capital firms, and lenders with proven track records of supporting entrepreneurs. The prestigious list celebrates investors who back founder-led businesses and helping them thrive.
“We are honored to be recognized as a founder-friendly investor, a testament to our longstanding commitment to supporting founder-led businesses,” said David Ragins, Clarion President of Private Equity. “This award reflects our dedication to fostering meaningful partnerships with the talented entrepreneurs we have the honor of working with. I am grateful to our dedicated Clarion team who are committed to helping our entrepreneurs achieve their goals through trust, collaboration, and unwavering support. We look forward to building on our success together with our entrepreneurial partners.”
For more than 24 years, Clarion has proudly partnered with founders and family-owned businesses across diverse industry sectors. Driven by a thesis-centered approach, Clarion focuses on multiple industry verticals, building strong, lasting relationships within each one. Many of the Firm’s entrepreneurial partners have returned to collaborate on subsequent successive deals and have also chosen to invest in Clarion funds. This loyalty reflects Clarion’s dedication to supporting the long-term success and growth of its partners.
“We partnered with Clarion because of their history of success with founder-friendly businesses, and our experience has surpassed our expectations,” said Ken Spain, Narrative Strategies Founder and CEO. “As a founder, you are making what is likely going to be the most consequential decision you’ll ever make for your business and your employees. We were looking for a partner, not just a source of capital. What we value most about working with Clarion is they are a partner in the truest sense of the word. We see ourselves as a people-driven business that places culture at the center of everything we do, and not only have they supported that in our journey, they have been relentless about helping us preserve it as we scale and grow.”
This recent achievement follows several awards Clarion has received over the past year, including the second-place listing on Pitchbook’s Top Private Equity Firm rankings, second-place earner on the HEC Paris Business School-Dow Jones Small-Cap Buyout Performance list, recognition on the 2024 Top 50 PE Firms in the Middle Market by GCI Publishing, and last month’s achievement as the Top Private Equity Firm on Crain’s List of 2024 Best Places to Work in New York City.
Learn more about the 2024 Inc. Magazine Founder-Friendly Investor list HERE.
About Clarion
Founded in 1999, Clarion is a New York-based investment manager operating two primary business segments: Private Equity (launched in 1999) and Structured Credit (launched in 2018). Clarion’s private equity business seeks to make primarily control investments in a diversified portfolio of lower middle-market companies generating $7.5-30.0 million of EBITDA. Clarion focuses on growth companies in industries such as: Media, Entertainment & Technology; Financial Technology & Services; Business & Healthcare Services; and Consumer & Consumer Services. Clarion’s structured credit business focuses mostly on CLO equity and mezzanine investments, sourced both in the primary and secondary markets. The structured credit team manages traditional private funds and an insurance-dedicated fund. Additional information on Clarion can be found at www.clarion-capital.com.