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10 Chicago Family Offices Investing in Private Equity (2026)

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Here are ten active family offices from our database that are based in Chicago and invest in private equity, along with their websites:

  1. Pritzker Group
    Pritzker Group is the investment firm founded by Tony and J.B. Pritzker, comprising three professional teams spanning middle-market acquisitions, technology venture capital and asset management. Its permanent capital base, unlike traditional private equity and venture capital structures, allows alignment with management teams, efficient decision-making and flexible transaction structures.
  2. Bridge Ventures
    Bridge Ventures is a private family office based in Chicago that invests patient capital alongside entrepreneurs shifting the paradigm in their industries.
  3. Camp Lake Capital, LLC
    Camp Lake Capital is a Chicago-based private investment firm focused on acquiring and growing lower middle-market businesses. Beyond capital, the firm offers a network of operating resources to support growth and operational improvement, from strengthening market share and margins to sourcing and closing add-on acquisitions.
  4. Granite Creek Partners, LLC
    Granite Creek Partners is a Chicago-based private investment firm providing capital and operational resources to lower middle-market companies in manufacturing, business services, healthcare, and agribusiness. The firm brings decades of experience in private equity, lending, operations, and business development, with a track record of supporting its portfolio companies.
  5. Kenex Holdings LLC
    Kenex Holdings is a private equity firm based in Chicago specializing in lower-middle-market companies in food, beverage, agriculture, transportation and logistics, infrastructure services, and manufacturing. The firm invests within the United States, with a focus on the Midwest, targeting companies with revenue under $100 million and taking stakes ranging from control to minority positions.
  6. Lorentzen Investments
    Lorentzen Investments is an equity investor across the company lifecycle, from seed to turnaround, with a focus on leveraged buyouts of operating companies that fit its reshoring and sustainability investment theses.
  7. MPG Equity Partners
    MPG Equity Partners is a Chicago-based, privately funded family office aggressively seeking to acquire platform companies. The firm's seasoned team acts as an all-cash buyer, moving quickly and flexibly on terms and structure to acquire businesses with EBITDA between $0.5 million and $5.0 million.
  8. North Park Group LLC
    North Park Group is a private family office investment group of business operators based in Chicago. It focuses on acquiring family-owned, U.S.-based manufacturing and distribution businesses with a strategy to hold and grow them.
  9. Ray Growth Partners
    Ray Growth Partners is a family office with a flexible investment mandate focused on partnering with strong managers. Its team has closed more than $4 billion in transactions across over 50 years of combined private equity experience, and now deploys its own capital in a select group of companies, forming deep, long-term partnerships with owners and operators.
  10. SE Capital Partners
    SE Capital Partners is the direct private equity arm of a multi-billion-dollar single family office, planning to deploy at least $400 million of equity capital over three to five years in a buy, build, and hold strategy. The firm targets change-of-control investments in niche market leaders in fragmented markets, focusing on middle-market transactions with enterprise values between $15 million and $100 million.

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