424 Capital
Drew Eckler is a Vice President at 424 Capital, responsible for creating investment theses, managing relationships with businesses, conducting financial analysis, leading due diligence, and executing strategic initiatives. Prior experience includes roles as an Associate and Analyst at Brook Venture Partners, leading the Industrials Coverage Group at Colby Student Investment Association, serving as a Summer Treasury Analyst at Boston Private, and working as a Data Scientist at FinMason, Inc. Additionally, Drew has a background in student leadership roles at organizations like Empower2Play, St. Paul's School, and Citizen Schools. Drew holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science from Colby College.
424 Capital
424 Capital makes control equity investments in lower middle market companies within B2B Tech-Enabled Services. We work in partnership with founders and management teams to accelerate and scale for long-term growth. Focusing primarily on investments in North America, we invest in companies that are profitable, growing, and that align with our values of honesty, integrity and impact. At 13 full-time investment professionals, remaining small and nimble is important to our strategy and allows us to work shoulder-to-shoulder with our portfolio company management teams to build dominant market leaders. Together, our team has invested in a total of 70 control transactions; at 3-5 new platform investments a year, we are selective in the investments we make. Success to us requires portfolio companies achieving results on a level of scale that even they didn’t imagine was possible. Over many years of investing and operating together, we have experienced firsthand the benefit of rolling up our sleeves and working with our portfolio company founders and CEOs whenever and wherever they need us. We help tailor a unique strategy for each portfolio company that involves accelerated revenue velocity, product and service line extensions, and a scale that creates a true industry-changing market leader. Energized, engaged and goal oriented, we have a long successful history of applying our vision to help build great businesses.