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Monroe Capital Named to Inc.’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors

Chicago, IL, November 1, 2024

Monroe Capital LLC (“Monroe”) has been selected by Inc. Magazine’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors. The list honors Lenders, Venture Capital and Private Equity firms with a track record of backing founder-led companies and helping them achieve success.

As a founder-led business itself, Monroe understands that the key to success lies in supporting visionary leaders and their organization. The firm’s investment strategy includes providing a partnership for founders, enabling them to achieve their maximum potential. Since inception, Monroe has invested in over 270 founder-led businesses, demonstrating our dedication to being a trusted partner.

Tom Aronson, Vice Chairman & Head of Originations of Monroe, stated, “We are thrilled to be recognized on the Inc. Founder Friendly list in the Lender category. We take great pride in being the lender of choice for founder-led and family operated businesses to support their growth initiatives through our capital solutions. We are honored to be recognized for the second consecutive year for our efforts.”

Zia Uddin, President of Monroe, stated, “For over 20 years we have partnered with family-owned businesses led by exceptional, entrepreneurial founders. Whether through our family-owned or our Independent Sponsor initiatives we seek to find and invest in the best founder-led businesses in North America.  Our partnership offers financing solutions to support their growth through potential add-on acquisitions, expansion capital or refinancings with a more flexible capital provider. We collaborate closely throughout their entrepreneurial journey, providing access to relationships we have developed over our long investing careers.”

Learn more about the 2024 Inc. Magazine Founder-Friendly Investor list here.

About Monroe Capital
Monroe Capital LLC (including its subsidiaries and affiliates, together “Monroe”) is a premier asset management firm specializing in private credit markets across various strategies, including direct lending, technology finance, venture debt, alternative credit solutions, structured credit, real estate and equity. Since 2004, the firm has been successfully providing capital solutions to clients in the U.S. and Canada. Monroe prides itself on being a value-added and user-friendly partner to business owners, management, and both private equity and independent sponsors. Monroe’s platform offers a wide variety of investment products for both institutional and high net worth investors with a focus on generating high quality “alpha” returns irrespective of business or economic cycles. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and maintains eleven offices, of which nine are in the U.S., one is in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and one is in Seoul, South Korea.

Monroe has been recognized by both its peers and investors with various awards including Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List; Private Debt Investor as the 2023 Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Decade, 2023 Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Year, 2023 CLO Manager of the Year, Americas; Global M&A Network as the 2023 Lower Mid-Markets Lender of the Year, U.S.A.; DealCatalyst as the 2022 Best CLO Manager of the Year; Korean Economic Daily as the 2022 Best Performance in Private Debt – Mid Cap; Creditflux as the 2021 Best U.S. Direct Lending Fund; and Pension Bridge as the 2020 Private Credit Strategy of the Year. For more information and important disclaimers, please visit www.monroecap.com.

Disclaimer
This is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities in any fund managed by Monroe Capital. Any offering is made to only pursuant to the relevant offering documents and the relevant subscription application, all of which should be read in their entirety. The information provided above is solely for informational purposes and may not be representative of a particular investor’s experience, nor should the information be construed, or relied upon, as any indication of future performance of Monroe or any of its funds.