“We are here to invest in companies that we believe can succeed, companies with both management teams and purposes that we can wholeheartedly embrace, companies that will be fun to work with as we build, and companies of which we will be justly proud when we succeed.”
- John Hay Whitney, February 1946.

JHW Greentree Capital, L.P., a U.S. Small Business Administration licensed Small Business Investment Company (SBIC), continues J.H. Whitney’s tradition of investing in America’s small businesses, seeking to make private equity investments of up to $15 million. Greentree, J.H. Whitney’s third and largest SBIC, is fully supported by the Firm’s extensive network and substantial resources as well as its private investors, an impressive group of approximately 60 CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs who have built successful companies in a wide range of industries.

J.H. Whitney & Co. was established in 1946 by the industrialist and philanthropist John Hay Whitney as one of the first U.S. private equity firms and has invested in hundreds of companies, spanning the full range of America’s industries, over its 60 year history. Today, the Firm remains privately owned by its investing professionals and provides private equity capital for small and middle market companies and manages more than $6 billion in capital.