STAIRWAY VENTURES
Building and scaling businesses designed to endure.
Sector: Diversified Holding Company
Focus: Healthcare, Manufacturing & Transportation, Technology
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Status: Active
Stairway Ventures is a Chicago-based diversified holding company that builds, acquires, and scales operating businesses. The platform combines long-term capital with hands-on operating capabilities across healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and technology. Rather than operating as a traditional venture fund, Stairway takes an active ownership approach—bringing together capital, operating expertise, technology, and shared resources to help its businesses grow.
The YBUK Perspective
Remedium Healthcare — Healthcare
A wound- and skin-care platform focused on improving patient outcomes through clinical products, technology, and expanded access to care. Remedium represents Stairway’s healthcare platform and its effort to build businesses addressing meaningful, recurring needs within a large end market.
Kogler Incorporated — Manufacturing & Transportation
An American manufacturing platform serving transportation and industrial customers through specialty mattresses, engineered foam products, aftermarket parts, and supply-chain solutions. Kogler combines domestic manufacturing capabilities with longstanding customer relationships and exposure to essential transportation markets.
Stairway Interactive — Technology
Stairway’s technology platform, developing AI, software, and blockchain-enabled solutions for industries including healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing. The business is focused on applying technology to automate complex workflows and improve the productivity of traditional operating businesses.
We believe Stairway’s advantage comes from applying a common operating discipline across very different businesses. Its three platforms provide exposure to distinct end markets while creating opportunities to share technology, infrastructure, operating expertise, and capital across the organization.
Stairway fits our preference for backing experienced operators pursuing adjacent opportunities where their existing knowledge can create an advantage. We were attracted to the combination of real operating businesses, durable end markets, shared resources, disciplined capital allocation, and a long-term ownership mindset.
Stairway reflects a core YBUK belief: experience compounds. We look for people who have spent years learning how businesses work and are applying that knowledge to their next opportunity. Stairway’s model of building, acquiring, and actively supporting businesses closely aligns with the way we think about creating long-term value.