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Great Point Partners Named to Inc.’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors for Second Consecutive Year
GREENWICH, CT – Great Point Partners (“GPP”), a Greenwich-based private investment firm focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that it is included on Inc.’s 2024 list of Founder-Friendly Investors, which honors private equity, venture capital, and debt firms who successfully partner with entrepreneurs. This marks the second consecutive year that Inc. has recognized GPP’s track record in this area.
The list spotlights investors who prioritize supporting founder-led businesses and contribute to their growth. All investment firms included have demonstrated successful histories of collaboration and ongoing involvement with the businesses in which they invest.
Since its founding in 2003, GPP has been dedicated to helping health care companies achieve their full potential, while helping founders maximize the full value of their stake. For more than two decades, GPP has supported entrepreneurs by providing capital, sourcing acquisitions, and offering unparalleled resources and strategic long-term guidance – all without taking over daily operational control. The firm is led by a team of Managing Directors based in Greenwich and London who have considerable experience investing together and is advised by a CEO Board of leading health care industry executives, as well as a Medical Advisory Board of physicians and scientists.
“For over two decades, our mission has been to identify and back the most innovative entrepreneurs in health care while supporting the growth of their businesses,” said Jeffrey Jay M.D., Founder and Managing Partner of GPP. “Being recognized by Inc. for a second consecutive year affirms our approach as true partners to founders—offering the resources, health care expertise, and strategic support entrepreneurs need to scale their businesses, all while empowering them to execute their vision.”
Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors list has become a trusted resource for entrepreneurs seeking growth-minded investors who allow founders to retain ownership stakes. To compile the list, Inc. surveyed founders who sold to private equity or venture capital firms, gathering insights on their partnerships and company growth during these collaborations.
“It has been a complicated few years for growth companies and the companies that fund them,” said Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “So we are happy to share with our readers the best, latest guidance on which venture capital firms, private equity firms, and growth-capital lenders have the track record and reputation of being especially good partners to founders and CEOs.”
The November 2024 issue of Inc. magazine is available online now at https://www.inc.com/magazine and will be on newsstands beginning October 29.
About Great Point Partners
Great Point Partners, founded in 2003 and based in Greenwich, CT, is a leading health care investment firm with 30 professionals, investing in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. GPP is currently making new minority and majority private equity investments from GPP IV. Great Point manages approximately $1.5B of capital (including committed and uncalled capital) in its private funds and public life sciences equity fund (BioMedical Value Fund). Great Point Partners has provided growth equity, growth recapitalization, and management buyout financing to more than 100 growing health care companies. The private equity funds invest across all sectors of the health care industry with a particular emphasis on biopharmaceutical services and supplies, alternate site care services, medical device contract manufacturing and information technology enabled businesses. The firm pursues a proactive and proprietary approach to sourcing investments and tuck-in acquisitions for its portfolio companies.
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 our community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating our future. Inc.’s award-winning work achieves a monthly brand footprint of more than 40 million across a variety of channels, including events, digital, print, video, podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Its proprietary Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since its launch as the Inc. 100 in 1982, analyzes company data to rank the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The recognition that comes with inclusion on this and other prestigious Inc. lists, such as Female Founders and Power Partners, gives the founders of top businesses the opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
Great Point Partners paid Inc. a nonrefundable processing fee to apply for Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors Listing, which all applicants were required to pay.