Capital Southwest is a publicly–owned business development company with total assets exceeding $525 million. We provide patient capital to exceptional businesses with significant growth potential. As a public company, we have the flexibility to hold investments indefinitely, which has provided the management teams of our holdings a stable ownership platform since we were founded in 1961.

We are not a private equity firm or a venture capital firm or a fund. Capital Southwest is a business development company with a refreshingly different investment mindset.

Capital Southwest was recently recognized as being one of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies by Audit Integrity, an independent Los Angeles firm that does research on corporate governance best practices, based on its high degree of accounting transparency and fair dealing to stakeholders.

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