Hermann Companies focuses on investments in light manufacturing, packaging, distribution, real estate, financial services technology, and business-to-business technology.
Our team members work directly with management teams in the companies we invest in throughout the technology, manufacturing, real estate, and financial services sectors. We focus on direct investments in venture stage and middle-market companies with strong management teams that share our vision of creating value that persists across generational boundaries.
Private Equity
Anchor Packaging is one of North America’s largest manufacturers of specialty food packaging used by restaurants and supermarkets for takeout meals. Anchor’s plants consistently earn “High Hygiene” certification from NSF International for the BRC Global Standard for Packaging to ensure that manufacturers protect the end-users.
EmpowerMe Wellness helps older adults identify and achieve their goals through provision of physical, occupational, and speech therapy services within senior living communities.
Thread is a connected financial ecosystem that helps you build value without building your own systems. Thread’s specialized technology platform empowers individuals, entrepreneurs, fintechs, and brands to integrate fully compliant financial solutions into their customer experience.
KNOWiNK provides a unique approach and proven solution rooted in extensive experience as former election officials and through speaking with election authorities across the country about their specific needs. KNOWiNK delivers an incomparable, state-of-the-art, seamless voter check-in and verification process.
NIC MAP Vision enhances performance of the senior housing industry by supplying robust data and analytics tools to give operators, lenders, developers, and owners real-time insight into local market dynamics nationwide.
Venture Capital
Global challenges in climate, nutrition, and sustainability require new kinds of plants. Solis Agrosciences is a plant science services company on a mission to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and commercialization.
Denim Social is a social media management software company that provides tools to empower marketers in regulated industries to conduct organic social media content and paid social media advertising on one platform. Trusted by more than 250 institutions in banking, insurance, mortgage and wealth management, Denim Social enables brands to engage consumers on social media while staying in compliance.
Transactly organizes and coordinates the messy and often chaotic process of closing a real estate transaction. Whether for an agent, broker, team, or the entire office, the Transactly application and specialized Coordinators can help streamline home sale transactions.
Micron Pure researches and develops air and surface sanitation technologies. Micron’s innovative ozone technology eliminates pathogens including COVID-19, influenza, common cold viruses, and bacteria.
Decusoft delivers the future of compensation automation, today. Power your compensation planning, administration, and management with a secure, web-based centralized platform designed specifically for compensation professionals.
ProviderTrust presents a safer, smarter healthcare experience for patients, providers, and payors. Founded in 2010 in Nashville, TN, ProviderTrust creates comprehensive solutions to solve complex problems to make healthcare data meaningful and actionable.
Benchmark Email is a simple email marketing tool for anyone who needs to send personalized email at scale.
Kindful is a cloud-based donor management and fundraising solution designed to help nonprofit organizations maximize their potential. Kindful works to increase fundraising effectiveness through an intuitive CRM system, integrated online fundraising tools, and in-depth donor analytics.
Kafene offers flexible ownership solutions through a web and app-based lease to own platform that underwrites, approves, and enables payment in less than 5 minutes. This technology brings innovative point of sale financing to industries like furniture, appliances, electronics, and jewelry.
Real Estate
40 West is a premier Class A office building containing 104,688 sf. Its exceptional location, outstanding access and amenities, high quality finishes and timeless architectural elements ensure long term appreciation potential.
23-story Class A office space in downtown St. Louis, MO with 510,202 rentable-square-feet. Located near four major interstates: I-64, I-70, I-55 and I-44 and with vacancy levels currently above 50%, this building has strong potential to attract stable tenants with substantial upside for investors. Designated as a Qualified Opportunity Zone, it also offers tax benefits associated with these areas.
The West Park Portfolio consists of a three office building package in Creve Coeur, Missouri. This Class A asset predicts stabilized cash flow with market rent increasing during the hold period.
Edge@Bridge
Construction of 120,000 to 165,000 square feet of laboratory research and office space (and an adjacent parking lot) on land owned by Danforth Plant Science Center and leased to the entity Edge@BRDG. This office space is to be subleased to Benson Hill.