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Craig Nikrant

Partner at Gryphon Investors

📍 Avon Lake, Ohio, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 6 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2022
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Board Member, Profusion, LLC
May 2019
Peak Rock Capital is a leading middle-market private investment firm headquartered in Austin with an office in London. Peak Rock’s funds invest in middle-market private equity, corporate credit, and commercial real estate. Peak Rock’s equity investment platform focuses on opportunities where it can support senior management to drive rapid growth and performance improvement, with expertise in corporate carve-outs and partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital. Peak Rock’s credit platform invests across capital structures, with a broad mandate to provide flexible, tailored capital solutions to middle-market and growth-oriented businesses. Peak Rock’s real estate platform makes equity and debt investments in small to mid-sized real estate assets in attractive, growing geographies.
Board Member
Mar 2015
Founded in 1991, Nelson Alarm is a full service security and alarm company providing Indianapolis and surrounding communities with a wide range of customized security and alarm services. The Company Has Grown over the years with the core value of providing customers with “Only the Best.”
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2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
Techmer PM is a leading materials design company that works in partnership with plastics processors, OEMs, and designers to solve some of their most difficult business, manufacturing, and sustainability challenges. The company's solutions modify the aesthetics, as well as extend and maintain the physical properties of plastic products. The company designs custom solutions for customers to maximize performance through collaboration and by leveraging its leading-edge technology. Techmer PM was recognized by Plastics News on its "Best Places to Work” list in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020. Email globalmarketing@techmerpm.com for more information.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Vivify is the only Hybrid Manufacturer of Color, to be completely vertically integrated in its manufacturing lines of pigments and pigment dispersions. Vivify also supplies a wide variety of inorganic pigments, dyes, additives, resins, waxes, specialty chemicals and food ingredients. Vivify has offices in India, China, USA (headquarters), and Brazil along with strong agents and distributors in 15 different countries. We are always looking to add value to our customers by focusing on our thoughtful leadership. If you are a thoughtful leader and believe you can be a good fit, feel free to contact us, we are always looking for the best and brightest minds to continually add iNNOVATIVE value to our customers technically, commercially, and even operationally.
Board Member
Jul 2021
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS OF AIR CONDITIONING, HEATING, AND REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT, PARTS AND SUPPLIES
2020
Board Member
Sep 2020
Kano Laboratories is a major manufacturer of industrial specialty chemicals. We established the Kroil brand in 1939 with the goal of producing the very best penetrants on the market. Since then, our Original Penetrant and Penetrant with Silicone formulas have been getting hard-working folks out of tightly locked situations in just about every industry…and quite a few home scenarios as well.
Executive Chairman
Mar 2020
Founded in 1979, Pacur is an ISO 9001 certified custom sheet extruder located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, which specializes in the extrusion of light and heavy gauge polyester, copolyester and polypropylene resins for a variety of applications. Sheet is extruded from various polyester and copolyester resins. In addition, Pacur extrudes a variety of homopolymer and copolymer polypropylenes. We are dedicated to the extrusion of these resins because of their unique blend of properties, including: - Exceptional clarity - Minimal environmental impact - FDA approval for use in food and medical packaging - ETO and gamma sterilizable - High temperature resistance - Lower forming temperatures, faster cycle times, and lower energy requirements - Chemical inertness - excellent resistance to many chemicals and solvents We will continuously improve the control over our processes to ensure that the quality, delivery, and service requirements of our customers are met and/or exceeded. We will accomplish this by applying the concepts described as our Quality Principles.
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