JC Koinon Industries is a private equity firm focused on investing in companies in the following industries: Healthcare Packaging & Distribution, Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing, and Consumer Products. The California-based firm believes in finding and partnering with management leaders in core domains to identify, acquire and build market-leading companies through transformational acquisitions and organic growth.

JC Koinon Industries believes our approach to middle market private equity is simple and consistent. Our successful investments are built on trust and results — we strive to acquire companies that have demonstrated a strong track record and most importantly a best-of-breed reputation in their industry.  From there, our goal is to work with leaders who believe in hard work, success, incentive equity and treating their employees and customers with the highest level of integrity.

Meaning: The word “Koinon” is a word that our Founders (one of whom is of Greek descent) derived from the Greek word Koinonia.  This has such a multitude of meanings that no single English word is adequate to express its depth and richness. It is a derivative of “koinos,” the word for “common.” Koinonia is a complex, rich, and thoroughly fascinating Greek approach to building community or teamwork.

In classical Greek, koinonein means “to have a share in a thing,” as when two or more people hold something, or even all things, in common. It can mean “going shares” with others, thereby having “business dealings” such as joint ownership of a ship, or even a business. It can also imply “sharing an opinion” with someone, and therefore agreeing with him, or disagreeing in a congenial way. Only participation as a contributive member allows one to share in what others have. What is shared, received or given becomes the common ground through which Koinonia becomes real.

Koinonia creates a brethren bond which builds trust and, especially when combined with the values of Wisdom, Virtue and Honor, overcomes two of humanity’s deepest fears and insecurities: being betrayed and being demeaned.  Whether working collectively or individually, the innovators of ancient Greece worked for the greater good of the whole — to propel their community forward, to share their understanding with others so that all ships would rise on a rising tide. Thus loftier goals and dreams are more easily manifested in the mind and achieved in reality. The team’s sense of Purpose became manifest.