53 Stations is a Chicago-based venture capital firm supported by The Pritzker Organization (TPO). The firm invests in early-stage, tech-focused businesses across a range of industries, driven by their conviction in top-tier founders who couple vision with the discipline required to build enduring businesses. With a flexible mandate and access to TPO to invest across opportunities and timeframes, 53 Stations brings a unique structure and approach – one that allows them to invest with freedom and scale to build companies that last. To learn more, visit 53stations.com
Visit Website Recent 53 Stations NewsADL Final Mile offers a full-suite of logistics services including final mile & parcel delivery, fleet replacement, customized logistics, and warehousing and distribution in the Midwest, Southeast, and Southwest U.S. ADL is actively searching for final mile logistics entrepreneurs seeking growth capital or an opportunity to transition their businesses. TPO invested in ADL alongside Red Dog Equity.
Recent ADL Final Mile NewsBlueVoyant delivers a comprehensive cloud-native security operations platform that provides real-time threat monitoring for networks, endpoints, and supply chains, extending to the clear, deep, and dark web. The platform integrates advanced AI technology with expert human insight to offer extensive protection and swift threat mitigation, ensuring enterprise cybersecurity.
Recent Bluevoyant NewsPartnership with BMO Sponsor Finance Group supporting their middle market lending platform. TPO has supported BMO’s CLO program since 2019 through sizeable equity investments in three separate middle-market CLO vehicles (Great Lakes 2019, V, and VI). >$1bn of total capital has been raised across the 3 CLO vehicles.
Clearwave Fiber was established in 2022 through a joint venture between Cable One, GTCR, The Pritzker Organization, and Stephens Capital Partners. The company provides advanced broadband and fiber-based services to residential and commercial customers across the Midwest and Southeast United States.
Recent Clearwave Fiber NewsCoalition is the leading provider of cyber insurance and security, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Ferian Re is an independent Bermuda-based Class 3B reinsurer whose activity includes participating in Coalition's cyber programs.
Recent Coalition / Ferian Re NewsFounded in 1955, Crown Healthcare Laundry Services is a full-service healthcare laundry processor and linen management company headquartered in Pensacola, FL. Crown provides laundering, packaging, delivery and additional value-added services to healthcare facilities across the Southeast US. Crown is solely focused on healthcare and processes over 240 million pounds of linen from over 2,500 customer sites through its eleven facilities and six distribution centers as of October 2025.
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Visit WebsiteEmergence Software, led by Henry Zhang, partners with visionary B2B software companies to provide long-term capital and strategic support. Emergence is a dedicated permanent capital partner committed to building a thriving ecosystem in software and data. The Company’s focus is on fostering enduring growth stories that will shape the industry for decades to come.
Visit WebsiteEpic Staffing Group is a diversified national provider of outsourced employment to the biopharmaceutical, education and healthcare industries. Epic’s staffing verticals include life sciences, locum tenens, travel nursing, travel allied, school special education, perfusionists / ECMO specialists, teleradiologists and international nurses.
Visit Website Recent Epic Staffing Group NewsFirebird is a next generation music company providing career and brand guidance to over 1,000 artists worldwide to help them develop and grow broader global audiences and build longer lasting, higher impact, more profitable careers. Firebird is redefining the intersection of music, technology and finance and has rich expertise across the spectrum of artist management and intellectual property creation, from traditional endeavors like touring and recording, to cutting edge marketing and consumer product development, to emerging digital platforms, gaming, and AI.
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Visit WebsitePartnership with Jefferies Credit Partners (JCP) supporting their middle market lending platform. TPO participated as a lead equity investor in JCP’s CLO 2023, which closed on ~$345mm of total capital.
KBP Brands owns and operates more than 1,100 KFC, Taco Bell, Arby's, and SONIC restaurants across 32 states as of October 2025. Based in Leawood, Kansas, the company's geographic reach and expertise running multi-unit businesses has resulted in customer satisfaction and growth for over 25 years since its founding in 1999.
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Visit Website Recent Kettle & Fire NewsLARP is a private real estate holding company that acquires residential apartments, targeting properties in unique neighborhoods with predictable cash flows.
Listen Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with consumer-obsessed entrepreneurs to build brands. The firm focuses on investing in companies at the tipping point of cultural and behavioral shifts, providing capital and brand expertise.
Visit Website Recent Listen Ventures and Listen Up (opportunity fund anchored by TPO) NewsLithko Contracting, LLC is a full-service concrete contracting company with a unique local service model designed to keep co-workers close to home and support career growth. Strong teams are built to create exceptional customer service in each of its towns. Lithko becomes part of the community through its involvement and by the durable concrete structures its teams help create. Lithko’s comprehensive, in-depth planning and highly precise execution make its local teams ideal partners to deliver on customer expectations.
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Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDGL) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a liver disease with high unmet medical need. Madrigal’s medication, Rezdiffra (resmetirom), is a once-daily, oral, liver-directed THR-β agonist designed to target key underlying causes of MASH. Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3). An ongoing Phase 3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c).
Visit WebsiteMammoth Holdings is an operator-focused car wash platform founded in 2002. As of October 2025, Mammoth Holdings owns and operates more than 150 car wash facilities across 18 states with rapid growth driven by a combination of buy and build. TPO invested alongside Red Dog Equity.
Visit Website Recent Mammoth NewsMinistry Brands is the leading provider of SaaS platforms for churches, parachurch ministries and other faith-based organizations in the United States and Canada, serving more than 95,000 customers. TPO invested alongside Reverence Capital Partners in their acquisition of Ministry Brands.
Visit Website Recent Ministry Brands NewsMRO Holdings (“MROH”) is a leading aircraft maintenance and modifications provider with a focus on long-term solutions for the aviation industry. TPO invested alongside Bain Capital’s Special Situations Group in their Strategic Growth investment into MRO Holdings.
Visit Website Recent MRO Holdings NewsNationsBenefits is a leading supplemental benefits company that partners with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions aimed at driving growth, improving outcomes, reducing costs, and delighting members. Nations surpasses traditional benefit designs by taking a consultative approach to understanding each valued client’s objectives, and offers customized programs that can be targeted or scaled to effectively engage members who have diverse needs. With the company's compliance-focused infrastructure, technology, care continuum and best-in-class service delivery model, health plans can depend on Nations to maximize the value-based care delivered to millions of people who deserve a better quality of life.
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Nimble builds fully autonomous fulfillment centers powered by their proprietary general-purpose warehouse robot – the first intelligent superhumanoid robot capable of performing all core warehouse tasks including storage and retrieval, picking, packing and sorting. Nimble's superhumanoid replaces dozens of complex systems, enabling warehouses that operate at a fraction of the cost and complexity of today's leading systems.
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Recent Omni Fiber NewsSteward Partners is a full-service, employee-owned, independent financial services firm that offers wealth management solutions for families, businesses, and multigenerational investors. With its commitment to exceptional client service and forward-thinking partnerships, the firm was ranked as the #18 RIA in the country in Barron's Top 100 RIAs for the year 2024. Offering services such as comprehensive wealth planning, private banking, institutional consulting, and business solutions, the firm was responsible for nearly $46 billion in client assets as of October 2025.
Visit WebsiteFounded more than 100 years ago, STV is a leader in providing architectural, engineering, planning, environmental, and construction management services for transportation systems, water infrastructure, buildings, and other facilities. The firm is ranked in the top 10 in Transportation by Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) Top 500 Design Firms survey and has offices throughout the U.S. and in Canada.
Visit Website Recent STV NewsTerramed is an investment vehicle designed to acquire the underlying real estate supporting veterinary practices and other healthcare real estate. Terramed’s management team is uniquely positioned to source and manage these properties due to deep industry knowledge and expertise. Terramed is focused on helping veterinary and healthcare property owners maximize the full value of their real estate while advancing the mission of care.
Visit Website Recent Terramed NewsTMS International is the leading provider of on-site, industrial steel mill services for steelmakers around the world. TMS provides invaluable resources that support and enhance its partners’ entire manufacturing operations. TMS International is the largest provider of outsourced industrial services to steel mills in North America as measured by revenue and has a substantial and growing international presence. As of October 2025, the company services clients across 11 countries and five continents, providing mill services at approximately 70 customer sites and maintaining a global raw material procurement network.
Visit Website Recent TMS International NewsVIP is a nationally recognized technology solutions provider that primarily services U.S. State & Local Governments. The company helps integrate business, people and process through project-based technology implementation and software reselling. TPO invested in VIP alongside the Circumference Group and Stephens Capital Partners.
Visit WebsiteWellspring Family Office is an independent, fee-only multi-family office serving ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. Founded in 2007 by CEO Michael Novak and headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the firm provides integrated wealth and tax planning, investment management, family governance and education, and succession solutions for single family offices.
Visit Website Recent Wellspring Family Office NewsZephyr is a technology-enabled HVAC / home services platform built with the technician at the center. Zephyr acquires local service providers in targeted markets, integrates them into a unified technology and productivity platform, and drives growth at those local brands with centralized support in recruiting, training, marketing, operations effectiveness, finance, M&A and more. By reimagining the technician experience, Zephyr is driving efficiency, retention, and profit for local HVAC brands across the country.
Visit Website Recent Zephyr NewsPartnership with Time Warner, Inc. in the sale of magazine subscriptions and merchandise through utilization of a sweepstakes offering with television advertising and direct mail.
Axioma develops and markets innovative risk analysis, portfolio rebalancing and performance attribution products for the financial services industry. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, Axioma helps leading financial firms manage risk, increase returns and improve operational efficiency.
Visit WebsiteBaker Tanks is a leading supplier of liquid containment rental equipment/services in the US, including pumps, filtration, trench shoring, and tanks. It serves oil and gas, pipeline, refinery, construction, environmental remediation, and municipal industries.
Bay City is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in the life sciences sector with a focus on biopharmaceuticals, drug discovery and research tools, medical devices, diagnostics, healthcare information technology, nutrition, and agribusiness.
Braniff was a U.S. based airline and successor to Braniff International Airways. It was partially formed from the assets of the original Braniff International Airways.
Catlin Group Limited was a Bermuda-based specialty insurance and reinsurance company established in 1984.
Distributes and administers health insurance for small groups and individuals as well as offering managed health care coverage for small business.
Visit WebsiteCerro Wire manufactures and distributes copper electrical building wires and cables for commercial, industrial, and residential use. The company serves commercial and residential builders and offers its products through electrical distributors and wholesalers, and representatives in North America. The company was founded in 1920 and is based in Hartselle, Alabama.
Visit WebsiteColson Group is the market leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of casters, wheels, and related hardware products. Products comprise a wide range of casters and wheels, including light duty, medium duty, heavy duty and super heavy duty used in industrial, commercial and institutional applications.
Conwood Tobacco is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of smokeless tobacco products, including moist snuff, loose leaf, dry snuff, plug and twist. Top-selling brands include Kodiak and Grizzly moist snuff and Levi Garrett loose leaf.
Financeit is a free-to-use platform that makes it easy for businesses to offer powerful financing options to their customers from any device. The company provides financing solutions through a safe and secure platform that traditionally were only available to big box retailers. The Financeit brand is defined by its commitment to fairness, transparency and ease-of-use, with no hidden fees or backdated interest, and competitive interest rates. Since launching in 2011, Financeit has worked with over 6,000 home improvement, vehicle and retail businesses to process more than $1.5 billion in loans in Canada and the United States.
Visit WebsiteFirst Health provides PPO networks access and other cost containment programs to healthcare through third party administrators, insurance carriers, healthcare plans, and Taft-Hartley trusts in the United States and Puerto Rico. It also offers various cost containment programs to help employers to manage their employee benefit plans.
Fontaine through its subsidiaries, manufactures heavy duty tractor and trailer coupling devices and truck fenders, splash guards, and related truck parts. The Company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Visit WebsiteGalaxy Aerospace is a business jet manufacturer in the super mid-size and mid-size market. It builds the Astra mid-size twin turbofan business jet and the larger Galaxy.
The Grand Victoria Casino Elgin is a riverboat casino in Elgin, Illinois. The previous investment in Grand Victoria Casino Resort which is a riverboat casino in Rising Sun, Indiana, has since been exited.
Visit WebsiteIn June 2014, GreyCastle Holdings acquired XL Group’s Life Reinsurance operations for $570 million in cash. With $5.9 billion in assets, the acquired business is composed primarily of UK and Ireland pension annuities. GreyCastle is a Bermuda-based reinsurance business capitalized to a S&P AA level. The Company is organized and run by veteran insurance executive Raymond Brooks, and has a highly skilled, experienced, and growing team of over 30 professionals in Bermuda and London.
Visit Website Recent GreyCastle Holdings Ltd. NewsThrough internal growth and a series of acquisitions, Hanover was one of the largest global operators of rental compression horsepower before merging with competitor Universal Compression in 2007 (since known as Exterran / ArchRock). Hanover Compressor provides compression equipment on a rental, contract compression, maintenance, and acquisition leaseback basis to oil & gas production, processing and transportation companies.
Founded in 1949, Hargray is the premier broadband communications and entertainment provider to the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and a growing set of communities throughout Georgia. Over the last ten years, the company has invested over $250 million to create an industry leading communications network.
Visit Website Recent Hargray NewsIntarcia Therapeutics is a rapidly emerging biopharmaceutical company committed to developing innovative therapies utilizing the Medici Drug Delivery System™ – medicines that have the potential to transform the prevention and management of serious chronic diseases. The Company’s near-term goal is to deliver a game-changing new level of glycemic control for a vast number of patients with type 2 diabetes with a longer-term goal of expanding its Medici Drug Delivery System.
Visit WebsiteInterline is one of the largest national distributors of facilities maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products, including janitor & sanitation supplies, plumbing, HVAC, hardware & security, appliances & parts, electrical & lighting, and safety products.
Visit WebsiteL.A. Darling Company provides merchandising solutions for retailers and brands. The company was founded in 1897 and is based in Paragould, Arkansas.
Visit WebsiteMarmon is a multibillion-dollar complex of manufacturing and service businesses built over 50+ years accumulating to more than 125 independent companies that produce transportation equipment, electrical components, and other industrial components, and companies that provide services in the construction and retail sectors. The Company’s operating philosophy is patterned after the 80/20 process at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), from where Tom Pritzker had brought 80/20 pioneer John Nichols and Frank Ptak to run the Company. Operating in a highly decentralized structure, a small professional organization in Chicago – The Marmon Group LLC – provided strategic direction and administrative support to management but left companies with significant autonomy to run their businesses.
Visit WebsiteMarmon-Herrington provides drivetrain products for trucks and specialty vehicles, and custom solutions and services. The company was founded in 1931 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.
Visit WebsiteMeyer Material manufactures and supplies ready mixed concrete and construction aggregates in the Chicago-Milwaukee metro area. Products include crushed stone, sand and gravel, recycled products, building materials, asphalt, liquid asphalt, paving and contracting, soil remediation, landscaping and construction supplies, and green building products. It also provides concrete placement services, including concrete pumping and conveying, and sale of construction-related building materials.
Northern Tier is a downstream energy company comprised of a 84kbpd refinery in St Paul Park, MN, along with several company owned and franchised retail stations / convenience stores.
Founded in 2022 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Omni Fiber delivers what people expect from their internet service provider: blazingly fast Internet speeds, unbeatable reliability, 100% in-home coverage, and best-in-class local customer service. We keep things simple, and that means no contracts, no hidden fees, no data caps, no installation fees, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Visit Website Recent Omni Logistics NewsPalantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is a software company that builds data integration and AI platforms for government and commercial clients. Its products enable organizations to analyze and act on complex data. Palantir is a leading provider of mission-critical analytics solutions to U.S. defense agencies and global enterprises.
Visit WebsitePortfolio is a leading independent provider of finance and insurance products and services to automotive dealers across the country. The Company develops, sells and administers auto dealer extended warranty programs across a full-service product offering including vehicle service contracts, GAP insurance and ancillary products.
Visit WebsiteReliant Pharmaceuticals engages in the sale and marketing of pharmaceutical products. The company markets pharmaceutical products principally to the primary care, cardiovascular, and specialist physicians.
Royal Caribbean operates as a cruise company under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Azamara Club Cruises brand names. The company also operates ships under the partner brands, such as TUI Cruises, Pullmantur, and SkySea Cruises. Royal Caribbean was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Visit WebsiteSpectacor Management Group is a worldwide venue management group that specializes in managing publicly owned facilities. SMG began their operation in 1977 with management of the Louisiana Superdome and have grown to one of the largest property management corporations in the world.
Southern Copper Corporation engages in mining, exploring, smelting, and refining copper and other minerals in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador.
Visit WebsiteSterling Crane provides crane rental services. The company was founded in 1954 and is based in Edmonton, Canada.
Visit WebsiteSterling Talent Solutions is the third-largest and fastest-growing provider of pre-employment screening solutions in the U.S. Core products include criminal background checks, verification of credentials (including prior employment and education), and facilitation of drug screening.
Visit WebsiteSuperior Waste Solutions is a waste management platform focused on creating a scaled provider of residential and commercial waste management services across the U.S. The company is primarily focused in the Midwestern U.S., and is actively searching for partners who are seeking capital and additional scale.
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Tallgrass Energy is a midstream energy operator with various transportation, storage, terminal, water management and processing assets.
Visit WebsiteTicketmaster provides ticketing services for concerts, sports, arts, theatre, family, and other events. It also offers custom tickets for parties, concerts, graduation, raffles, sporting events, business events, and office parties and functions; and fan-to-fan resale services.
Visit WebsiteTransUnion is one of the three leading global credit bureaus, providing credit information and information management services.
Visit WebsiteTriton Container is the world’s largest owner-lessor of marine intermodal cargo containers. Triton’s fleet is comprised of dry van, refrigerated, flat rack and open top equipment. The Company was founded in 1980.
Visit WebsiteUber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) is a global technology platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, that connects riders with drivers and supports a spectrum of services—ride-hailing, food delivery, courier services, and freight logistics.
Visit WebsiteUnion Tank Car engages in the manufacture, sale, and lease of tank/rail cars. The company was founded in 1891 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Visit WebsiteWebb Wheel Products engages in the design and manufacture of wheel equipment. It offers products through warehouse distributors, and OEM truck and trailer dealers in North America. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Cullman, Alabama.
Visit WebsiteWells Lamont offers gloves for men, women, and kids for a variety of uses. It offers its products through retailers, distributors, and stores in the United States. The company was founded in 1907 and is based in Niles, Illinois.
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