Phillips-Smith Specialty Retail Group

Overview

Phillips-Smith Specialty Retail Group is a venture capital firm that invests exclusively in retail ventures, focusing on e-commerce, retail, and consumer businesses with the potential to become major retail or restaurant chains, direct marketing companies, or Internet commerce companies. The firm has managed at least one fund, Phillips-Smith Specialty Retail Group III LP, which closed in 1994 with a size of $70 million. The firm's investment strategy targets early-stage to growth companies in the United States, emphasizing sectors such as e-commerce, retail, and consumer goods. While specific portfolio companies are not publicly disclosed, the firm's investment history includes involvement in companies like Cooking.com Inc. The firm's investment philosophy centers on identifying and supporting high-potential retail ventures that can scale into significant market players, leveraging its expertise and resources to foster growth and success in the retail sector.

Investment Focus

• High-growth potential
• Scalable business model
• Strong management team

Portfolio Companies