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How PeopleFirst Leadership Powers Growth at Ascend

Ascend brings Alpine’s PeopleFirst leadership to life, showing how people-first private equity can drive growth while preserving integrity.

The Window Experts Unlock the Next Stage of Growth

Jeff Ludy built The Window Experts from a garage startup to a category leader. See how he chose Alpine to protect his team and legacy while unlocking...

Restoring Balance: Midwest Restoration Builds for What’s Next

In early 2023, Midwest Restoration, a home restoration company in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin, was thriving. The company Coyne Bor...

Alpine Investors’ Founding Story: The 20th Anniversary Video

Watch Founder and CEO Graham Weaver share the motivation that fueled him to get started, and what continues to steer Alpine’s growth.

What to Know Before Selling your Business to Private Equity

Thinking about selling your business? Learn what private equity buyers look for and start planning your future exit today.

How Mona Invests in Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

As a lawyer, entrepreneur, and author, Andrew Leon Hanna is personally and professionally dedicated to supporting underrepresented comm...

What Many Leaders Are Missing in the Great Resignation and Work From Home Debates

This post was originally published on Alpine Investors’ Founder Graham Weaver’s blog. By Graham Weaver, Founder, Alpine Inv...

Why Opsahl Dawson President Aaron Dawson Chose Ascend

Opsahl Dawson President Aaron Dawson loves solving problems. The father of three girls, he stocks his tool shed with more tools than he...

Alpine Social Ventures Fellow and Malama Health Founder Mika Eddy on Healthier Outcomes for Gestational Diabetes

Mika Eddy is a healthcare entrepreneur determined to make a difference, fueled by her own experiences with maternal health.

Building a Scalable Customer-Centric Education Business

Jason Dion shares the customer-centric approach that got him this far, and how Axcel and new CEO Sasha LeFlore will catapult Dion Training’s growth.

Years in the Making: Steve Heckler on Building a Relationship with Alpine

Steve Heckler shares lessons learned as a founder and recounts Accelebrate’s winding path to Alpine Investors.

To CEO to Partner and Back Again – Will Adams

From his early days mowing lawns in his Cincinnati neighborhood to his new role leading Alpine’s Orion Group, Will Adams has always lov...

Founder Profile: Vinod Dega

Over close to two decades building the online education platform EduMind, co-founder Vinod Dega has learned a few lessons of his own—fr...

ASV Fellow Touré Owen on Building Black Barbershop Brand Mobo

Meet Touré Owen, an ASV fellow and founder of Mobo. With his Oakland, California-based Black barbershop brand, Owen strives to build community, provid...

How Alpine Social Ventures Equips Working Trees with Room to Grow

The team at Working Trees is all about using trees as a silent, unassuming solution to some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Evergreen Builds Lasting Business Legacies for MSPs

Learn how a founder’s legacy lives on through Evergreen—preserving people, culture, and growth in over 100 managed IT services and MSP businesses nati...

Podcast – Graham Weaver on Bloomberg’s Master in Business

Graham Weaver, the Founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, joins Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz on his podcast to discuss private equ...

Mi Tribu Founders on Prenatal & Postpartum Care in LatAm

Magdalena Ramírez and Sebastián Espinoza reflect on founding Mi Tribu, using technology and a digital group care approach to innovate in the maternal...

ASV Fellow Drew Barvir on Founding Sonar, an AI-Based Mental Health Platform Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Drew Barvir’s reflects on founding Sonar, using AI and chat-based technology to reach teens where they are and leveraging the professional connections...

As One Door Closes: IDC Founder Jerry Fields on Leadership, Retirement and Choosing Cobalt Service Partners

Jerry shares what it was like to start a business as a teenager, how a few emails changed the course of the company and why he decided Cobalt was the...

How Piedmont Door Solutions Found the Right Partner in Cobalt

Discover how Piedmont Door Solutions’ President and CEO Chris Mitchell grew Piedmont Door Solutions into an industry leader and found the right privat...

Drylux Founders Ben and Robert Horne on Putting People First

Brothers Ben and Robert Horne started the Arizona-based restoration company Drylux Restoration, and they’re joining Guardian Restoration Partners, a n...

Why LMC Advisors Partnered With Ascend

Lee Cohen, Founder of LMC, shares how partnering with Ascend allowed them to leverage resources and expertise to achieve a vision beyond what was once...

IN PARTNERSHIP FOR PEOPLE – Roger Musick

Roger Musick is all about connection—with community, customers, and his staff of over 200 at Innovative Systems. After 22 years as CEO...

Other Resources

Jeff Ludy built The Window Experts from a garage startup to a category leader. See how he chose Alpine to protect his team and legacy while unlocking...

In early 2023, Midwest Restoration, a home restoration company in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin, was thriving. The company Coyne Bor...

Watch Founder and CEO Graham Weaver share the motivation that fueled him to get started, and what continues to steer Alpine’s growth.

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