Rock Gate Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and building mind-share leaders. Mind share leaders are companies with high brand awareness that stand apart through reputation, relationships, innovation, quality, and consistency — when customers, competitors and suppliers alike view a company as the benchmark in its field.

Rock Gate was founded on a simple conviction: great companies are built by exceptional people, not financial engineering. We are entrepreneurs who invest and actively engage to assist management teams in growing their businesses – not money managers. Our team partners with management and family owners to scale proven businesses with shared values, cultural alignment, and disciplined growth.

At Rock Gate Partners, success is measured by the quality of the companies and the caliber of the teams we build.  Financial success is the by-product — not the sole objective.  That being said, our returns have also been exceptional