Nonantum Capital Partners Named to Inc.’s 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors List for Fourth Straight Year; Managing Partner Jon Biotti Named a Founder Champion

Founder-driven recognition highlights Nonantum’s long-standing, partnership-first approach to investing

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nonantum Capital Partners (“Nonantum”) announced today that the firm has been named to Inc.’s 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors List for the fourth consecutive year. In addition, Jon Biotti, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Nonantum, has been recognized as one of Inc.’s inaugural Founder Champions, a new honor for investment professionals with a history of strong partnerships with founder-led portfolio companies.

“This recognition comes directly from the founders we have partnered with, which makes earning it for a fourth consecutive year a credit to our entire team,” said David Ganitsky, Managing Director of Nonantum. “That founder-first philosophy has been central to Nonantum since Jon and I co-founded the firm. Throughout Jon’s career, founders have returned to partner with him, a testament to his judgment, acumen, and the quality of his founder-specific counsel. Championing founders is at the core of how Jon invests.”

“Any recognition that comes from founders means a great deal, because it is earned one relationship at a time,” said Jon Biotti, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Nonantum. “This honor reflects the work of our entire team and the trust our founders have placed in us, and we are grateful to every founder who has chosen to partner with Nonantum.”

Nonantum is led by private equity and management executives with deep investment and operating experience. The firm focuses on family- and founder-led businesses, corporate carve-outs, and other transitional opportunities, combining institutional rigor with a collaborative, values-driven approach. Ten of Nonantum’s 12 platform investments have been founder-led businesses, partnerships built on the strength of founders’ relationships with the firm’s partners.

“With the current funding environment and rapid changes facing growing companies, founders are looking for more than just capital from their investors. They want true partners who believe in their business, but who are also able to provide the critical advisement and strategic support they need to reach their potential,” said Bonny Ghosh, Editorial Director at Inc. “The 2026 Founder-Friendly Investor awards celebrate those firms –– the ones committed to partnership, excellence, and helping founder-led companies grow.”

To compile the Founder-Friendly Investors list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders completed questionnaires about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their companies have performed during these partnerships. The resulting list highlights investors that founders identified as strong partners throughout the investment process. For the new Founder Champions recognition, firms nominated individual investment professionals, detailing each honoree’s role in supporting founders across their portfolio.

To learn more and see the complete 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors list, visit www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors.

About Nonantum Capital Partners
Founded in 2018 by a team of experienced private equity and management executives as a spin-out from Charlesbank Capital Partners, Nonantum is a Boston-based middle-market private equity firm. Nonantum focuses on investing in family- and founder-owned businesses, corporate carve-outs, and complex situations where personal partnership is critical and opportunities exist for significant equity value creation. For more information, visit www.nonantumcapital.com.

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 its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

About the 2026 List of Founder-Friendly Investors
The “Founder-Friendly Investors” award is a program designed by Inc. Magazine to help founder-led companies accelerate growth and create revenue. Inc.’s 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors List and Founder Champions recognition appear on the magazine’s website at https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors. Like all entrants, Nonantum paid a fee to apply to be considered for the Founder-Friendly Investors award and paid an additional fee to nominate Jon Biotti for consideration as a Founder Champion. Nonantum is not affiliated with Inc. These awards are not to be construed as indicative of Nonantum’s future performance. Reference to an award is only one piece of information relevant to an evaluation of an investment adviser such as Nonantum. Finally, these awards represent information as of a specific date and time and may not reflect important information related to an evaluation of the investment adviser which has occurred prior to, or subsequent to, the awards. The awards were granted on October 27, 2026. Nonantum also received the Founder-Friendly Investors award in 2025, 2024, and 2023.