Early-stage venture through late-stage growth. Biotech, Life Science, FinTech, PropTech, consumer products, B2B SaaS and more. North America, India, and Israel. Wherever you are, whatever you do, Norwest is always looking for smart investments, and we have the resources to help solve your unique challenges and reach your ultimate vision. The one thing all our portfolio companies have in common is massive potential.

By leveraging our scale and unique compliant model, we deliver price advantages no other purchasing collective can match. For over a decade, more and more Fortune 1000 firms have started aligning their purchasing volume with the best aggregator in the business. CoreTrust now has more than 2,800 members from all of the major verticals: retail, manufacturing, hospitality and finance. Companies know they can take advantage of savings and contract terms better than what they could negotiate on their own.

Cloud based Franchise Management Software including Franchise Relationship Management and Service Management. Waterstreet FMS is tailored to your franchise system.

20North is a full-service digital marketing agency focused on growing our clients’ business through data-driven, multi-channel digital strategies like SEO and web design. We take a thoughtful, collaborative approach to understanding our clients’ business goals and develop and execute digital marketing plans that achieve desired results. With diverse backgrounds in digital marketing, branding, public relations, copywriting, analytics and web development, we specialize in: Local and National SEO; Google Ads Management; Web Design & Development; Content Marketing; Social Media Advertising, and CRM & Analytics.

PromoRepublic is the one marketing platform for franchise growth, streamlining tools, assets, and data into a single central hub. Our unique Copilot solution, combined with best-in-class Analytics, serves as your personal data analyst, uncovering actionable insights to grow online visibility in local search and social media across all locations.

We’re Wipfli, a top 20 advisory firm with a strong CPA foundation serving 59,000 clients across today’s most complex industries. For more than 90 years, we have evolved and grown to help our clients take on whatever comes next. Yet as much as we change, at our core we remain committed to curiosity and our clients.

Our more than 3,200 associates help our clients with services that range from business consulting and digital services to audit and accounting. We focus on emerging and mid-market organizations with specialized knowledge in industries like financial institutions, financial services, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, construction, real estate, government, nonprofit, agriculture, auto dealerships, technology and tribal gaming and government.

Brookside Consulting specializes in: franchise relations; franchise system expansion; directorships; system due diligence; expert witness; dispute resolution; operating support and management.

We design, develop, and maintain websites for franchise systems. For more than 10 years, we’ve created websites for emerging franchisors and established brands with 400+ locations. We use WordPress Multisite and won’t lock you into long-term contracts on proprietary platforms. These websites won our clients awards, but more importantly, they win them business for their franchisees and leads for their sales teams. In return, we earned their long-term loyalty. We’re here to foster new relationships and help franchisors thrive with a great website that’s not just beautiful but scalable and easily maintained. Oh, and our team is pretty awesome too!

A full service law firm with offices in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Akron, OH, Washington, D.C., Houston, TX, and Pittsburgh, PA. The firm has an extensive franchise law practice representing franchisors, franchisees and franchisee associations in a broad range of transactional and litigation matters.

We are true full-service Franchise Development experts. Our success starts with process diligence across our suite of premier development services. We have over 100 years of combined experience in franchising, operations, marketing, and growth. Our unmatched capabilities ensure your brand will GROW CONFIDENTLY and profit! We are proud of what we do, how we do it, and would be honored at the opportunity to partner with you.

Award-winning Conversation Intelligence turns insights into actions that win more business: Pinpoint opportunities to grow revenue; Optimize location performance; Convert more callers to customers. Marchex Inc is a conversational intelligence company that helps businesses connect, drive, measure, convert callers into customers. It delivers data insights and incorporates artificial intelligence (AI)-powered functionality that drives insights and solutions to help companies find, engage, and support their customers across multiple channels of communications. Marchex provides and develops products and services for businesses that are looking to improve their customer's experience and drive revenue.

Paradox has built the hiring platform trusted by franchises to find, hire, and onboard workers fast. Powered by the AI assistant, Olivia, the hiring process is automated to enhance the candidate experience through two-way texting, self-serve interview scheduling, and onboarding to help businesses maintain staffing levels.