A firm designed around patience, discipline, and alignment.
Hickson Companies was founded in 2025 as a private investment firm with a deliberately simple mandate: allocate long-term capital to opportunities we understand deeply, and hold them with conviction.
We invest across three platforms — commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital — under one consistent standard. Whether we're underwriting a building, a business, or a founding team, we ask the same questions about durability, downside, and the people involved.
We invest our own capital alongside our partners', which keeps our incentives aligned and our judgment grounded. Based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, we partner with operators, owners, and founders across the country.
Protecting capital is the foundation of compounding it. Every commitment is sized so no single mistake can impair the whole.
We invest only where we have real insight — into the asset, the business, and the forces shaping it over a decade.
Time is our structural advantage. When the thesis is intact, we let compounding do the work — undistracted by noise.
A team that has built, bought, and operated businesses — investing our own capital alongside our partners'.
Leads the firm's investment strategy and capital allocation across all three platforms, with a focus on long-term value creation.
Partners across the firm's investments and operations, with a focus on relationships, investor partnerships, and how the business is built day to day.
We're always glad to meet operators, founders, owners, and prospective partners.
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