Corridor Capital, a dedicated fund, provides far more than capital to US-based small companies—to our knowledge, we are the most actively engaged private equity partner across strategy, operations and finance. Corridor is able to provide an exceptional level of support because our seasoned investment team has operational experience managing businesses. We are not a conventional private equity firm.

Through our collaborative, highly active approach, we work alongside management to build the institutions and efficiencies necessary for sustainable scalable growth. Corridor’s portfolio companies benefit from value-added activities such as: worldwide business development, financial controls design, customer profitability analysis, operations restructuring, systems implementation and key management team recruitment. Our broad investor base includes more than 150 top executives across a vast array of industries and disciplines, a unique resource we bring to benefit our portfolio companies and their teams.

We make control investments in specialty manufacturing, business services and environmental services industries. Corridor focuses on complex situations, particularly those requiring growth support or operational or financial engagement. We prefer to work with entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses that have not yet realized the benefits of hands-on, institutional ownership. We are honored that sellers often rollover a meaningful portion of their equity in an effort to benefit from the Corridor approach, giving owners access to a subsequent liquidity event against significant value created together.

Corridor Capital’s CEO, Craig Enenstein concluded in 1993 that the private equity market was commoditizing and deeper value-added skills were necessary for quality investing. Building on experiences in international trade and strategy consulting, Craig has spent more than a decade in private equity honing his investment thesis by serving as an intimate partner with the managers and owners of the companies into which he has invested, leading to the foundation of Corridor Capital in 2005.

Craig learned the deal business from some of the true masters of the field. Before founding Corridor Capital, he worked for eight years for Michael Milken, John Malone and Jarl Mohn of Liberty Media, and the Nazarian-Kadisha families who were among the initial Qualcomm investors. Craig invested over $400 million and considers his most formative experiences the three turnarounds he managed, which helped Craig develop the operational and strategic appreciation that makes him the partner to managers he is today. Every member of the Corridor Capital team shares Craig’s experience of classic Fortune 50 strategic advisory, private equity investing and small company operations. The founding members of Corridor Capital have worked together for fourteen years.