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What does 1st & Main Growth Partners invest in?
1st & Main Growth Partners invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Financial Services, Fintech and Banking.
1st & Main Growth Partners highlights
- 01
2 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds
What they do
becoming a leading private equity investor in subregional financial services companies for over 38 yearsFrom their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- GrowthBuyout
- Sectors
- Financial ServicesFintechBanking
- Based in
- Chicago, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first3 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jun
- 2025
1 round
- Aug
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
CJCharles Joseph MoorePresident/Chief Executive OfficeriForm ADV
TPTerrence Paul MurphyChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 13 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$680Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- The BANC Funds Company, L.L.C.
- SEC number
- CRD 106305
Funds on its Form ADV
3 private funds, $1.1B in gross assets · filed Oct 2024
- BANC Fund IX L.P.Private equity46 investors$583M
- BANC Fund X L.P.Private equity48 investors$456M
- TBFC Financial Technologies Fund L.P.Private equity17 investors$38M
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in 1st & Main Growth Partners's funds
- Committed
- $388M
- Funds
- 2
- Vintages
- 2014 to 2018
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2026.
Washington State Investment Board2 funds$200MFund Vintage Committed Banc Fund X 2018 $100M Banc Fund IX 2014 $100M 
Minnesota State Board of Investments2 funds$187MFund Vintage Committed Banc Fund X 2018 $80M Banc Fund IX 2014 $107M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
16 of 45 we have independently watched raise
BushelpoweredConfidenceFinexioKasistoLamaNeuralpaymentsNymbusOcrolusProofScamneticSyncteraTilledTreasuryprimeTruelinkfinancialVerdatagrasshopper.bankAbingtonbankAnchorbankBackbaseBankofcentralfloridaDiamond-hillDocfoxIqpayLexalignMercbankMerchantsbankofindianaMoverisMyfwOldsecondPartnerwiththriveSccountybankSeacoastbankSouthernbankStifelStoiclaneStpaulfcuTassatTfinUnitybankYadkinbankamericanbb.bankandover.bank/Andover-Bancorp-Incbead.xyzcalprivate.bankfirstbusiness.bank
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.