Lincoln Road Global Management Named to Inc.’s 2025 List of Founder-Friendly Investors
MIAMI–Lincoln Road Global Management, LLC (“Lincoln Road”), a private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies, today announced that the firm was named to Inc.’s seventh annual Founder-Friendly Investors list. The list honors the private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders with a track record of backing founder-led companies. This is Lincoln Road’s fourth consecutive year of making the list.
The prestigious list celebrates the investors that believe in backing founder-led businesses and helping them thrive. All companies on the list have successful track records of collaboration and remaining actively involved with the businesses they invest in.
“We’re excited to share that Lincoln Road has once again been named to Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors list, which reflects our culture of working collaboratively with founders, family owners, and management teams who are seeking to maximize the untapped potential of their businesses and pursue their next chapter of growth,” said Jeff Magny, Founder and Managing Partner of Lincoln Road. “We’re proud that our hard work has been acknowledged by Inc., one of America’s most well-known business publications. It is a testament to our ability to work effectively with key stakeholders, achieve positive results for our investors, and serve as one of the most valued partners to entrepreneurs and business owners today.”
“Raising capital is no small feat for today’s entrepreneurs. That’s why discovering investors who offer more than just financial backing—those who bring mentorship, resources, and a true spirit of partnership to your growth journey—is both rare and invaluable,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “The 2025 Founder-Friendly Investors are collaborators and dedicated to helping their portfolio companies succeed.”
Lincoln Road continues its active investment pace, completing 26 investments in the last seven years, including its investment into Silversand Services in October 2023 and the realization of its investment into Brothers Paving & Concrete in February 2023.
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 private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships. To see the complete list, go to: https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors/2025.
Introduced in 2019, the Founder-Friendly Private Equity Firms list quickly established itself as one of Inc.’s most resourceful franchises. It has become a go-to guide for entrepreneurs who want to grow their companies while retaining an ownership stake.
About Inc.
Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.