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Prism Capital Corporation

Chicago private equity firm now winding down its growth equity and mezzanine debt funds

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TrustList summary

Prism Capital Corporation is a private equity firm based in Chicago that is now winding down. It ran two funds, one making growth equity investments and the other lending to lower mid-market companies through subordinated debt.

What Prism Capital Corporation offers

Prism Opportunity Fund: a growth equity fund that invested in 14 companies.
Prism Mezzanine Fund: a subordinated debt fund for the lower mid-market that invested in 26 companies.
Fund wind-down: the partners are still managing the remaining assets on behalf of their limited partners.

Who it serves

The firm backed businesses across sectors, including security, medical devices, research publishing and consumer services. Several of them were later sold or merged, and one went public.

Key facts

Based in: Chicago, United States
Founded: 1999
Wind-down began: 2011, when the partners chose to pursue other interests
Businesses backed: more than 40

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Prism Capital Corporation is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #12.

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Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

#12of 59
Private equity firms
Of the top 57 here, 20 also cover partners and 12 also cover healthtech; 15 also work in New York City and 8 also work in London.
Behind Penta Capital, ahead of Waypoint Capital Partners.

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