Cressey & Company Named to Inc.’s 2022 List of Founder-Friendly Investors
Annual roundup highlights the private equity and venture capital firms with the best track records of success backing entrepreneurs
Chicago, IL October 5, 2022 – Inc. today announced its fourth annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, honoring the private equity and venture capital firms with the best track records of success backing entrepreneurs. The final list recognizes firms that entrepreneurs collaborate with and trust as they receive the financial support they need to help drive growth.
“We are very excited to be recognized for our track record of building leading healthcare businesses alongside talented founders,” said Dave Rogero, Partner at Cressey and Company. “We take great pride in being a value-add partner to our executive teams and providing critical resources to help support strong growth and quality as those leaders build pathbreaking companies.”
Cressey & Company (“Cressey”) has a long history of executing its Cressey’s ‘Target, Partner, and Build’ investment strategy by partnering with founder-led businesses. Cressey seeks to combine the talent and insight of the founders with its deep network of resources to enhance growth, productivity, and operations in several important areas, including employee recruitment and retention, strategic planning, sales, finance, technology, and business development.
Cressey also places significant emphasis on culture, quality, and compliance in our partnerships, working with founders and other executives to ensure this focus sharpens as each company expands. Cressey engages regularly with its executive partners to ensure the companies are well resourced in these – and other – areas in support of rapid growth.
Cressey looks forward to further engagement and partnership with founder-led businesses that are successfully innovating in the healthcare industry.
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About Cressey & Company LP
Based in Chicago, Illinois and Nashville, Tennessee, Cressey & Company LP is a private investment firm focused on building leading healthcare services and information technology businesses. With a history spanning 40 years, the Cressey & Company team is one of the most experienced and successful in the healthcare private equity field.
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The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community they need to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
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