Main Street Capital Corporation
A Houston-based investment firm that lends money and buys stakes in smaller, family-run companies that Wall Street's biggest banks tend to overlook. Operating as a business development company, it gives these lower-middle-market businesses long-term debt and equity financing to grow or buy out owners. Its roots trace to investment funds launched in the mid-1990s, and it went public in 2007. The name plays on "Main Street"—the everyday economy of small entrepreneurs—as a deliberate contrast to big Wall Street finance.
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