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NEW YORK – October 28, 2025 - VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”), a leading private investment firm specializing in the healthcare, education, and business services sectors, is proud to announce that it has been named to Inc.’s 2025 List of Founder Friendly Investors, for the third consecutive year. The annual honor highlights the private equity and venture capital firms with the best track records of success backing founder-owned businesses.

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“It’s an honor to be recognized by Inc. Magazine as a founder-friendly investor for the third consecutive year," said Jeffrey Stevenson, Managing Partner at VSS. “This industry recognition is a testament to our firm’s long-standing collaborative approach to working with entrepreneurs, focused not only on financial growth but also long-term value creation,” added Trent Hickman, Co-Managing Partner.

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For over three decades, VSS has supported exceptional management teams of U.S. lower middle market businesses leveraging operational, financial and industry expertise, and working side by side to maximize long-term value, strengthen boards and identify strategic acquisitions.

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About VSS Capital Partners

Headquartered in New York, VSS is a private investment firm that invests in healthcare, business services and education companies. Since 1987, VSS has partnered with lower middle-market companies, working closely with management teams, to facilitate their next stage of growth. VSS provides capital for growth financings, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, and buyouts with the flexibility to invest control or non-control capital, based on the needs and objectives of each company. With approximately $4 billion in committed capital across eight funds, VSS has completed over 100 platform investments and more than 600 add-on acquisitions. For more information, visit https://www.vss.com.

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Inc.’s 2025 List of Founder Friendly Investors: Published in October 2025. Based on firms that exited at least one founder-led portfolio company within the previous five years. It evaluates growth among companies partnered with private equity, venture capital, or debt firms. Compensation was provided by the adviser.