Morris Industries
EST. 2010 · LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

American
Innovation.

Morris Industries leverages the power of business to address America’s biggest challenges — building, backing, and operating companies from the heart of the Commonwealth.

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OUR STORY

Built in
Kentucky.

Morris Industries, founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Nate Morris, is a Lexington, Kentucky–based conglomerate. We identify companies with unrealized growth potential — whose current ownership desires an exit strategy, requires capital, or needs an experienced management team to continue its growth.

2010
FOUNDED
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9th
GENERATION KENTUCKIAN AT THE HELM
LEADERSHIP

The people
behind it.

Nate Morris
FOUNDER

Nate Morris

Nate Morris founded Morris Industries in 2010. Before that, he founded Rubicon Technologies, one of America’s largest waste management companies — started in 2009 with a $10,000 line of credit and led by Morris as CEO for over twelve years, through a $2-billion transaction to bring Rubicon public on the New York Stock Exchange.

A ninth-generation Kentuckian raised in a union household by a single mother, Morris was the first Kentuckian named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and is the youngest inductee in the history of the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. He is the founder and Managing Trustee of the Morris Foundation, and resides at Commonwealth Farm in Lexington with his wife, Jane, and son, JR.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Jane Mosbacher Morris

Jane Mosbacher Morris is Founder and CEO of TO THE MARKET, a supply chain software company powering the ethical supply chain — named an Inc. Best in Business, an Inc. 5000 company, and a Fast Company Next Big Thing in Tech winner. She previously served in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism.

In 2020, Fortune named Jane one of the 25 World’s Greatest Leaders. She is the Vice Chairman of CARE, sits on the Boards of Republic Financial Technologies and Return Technologies, and is the author of Buy the Change You Want to See. She holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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We build
companies.

Morris Industries is not a fund. It is a place where companies get built — by operators who have done it before. We start businesses, back founders with sweat equity as well as capital, and put experienced management alongside them for the long haul.

The proof is in the origin story: a waste-and-recycling startup legally formed with a $10,000 line of credit, built into one of only nine Kentucky companies ever to list on the New York Stock Exchange.

Rubicon Technologies listing day at the New York Stock Exchange
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$10K
LINE OF CREDIT AT FOUNDING
$2B
TRANSACTION TO GO PUBLIC
50
STATES IN OPERATION
1 of 9
KENTUCKY COMPANIES EVER LISTED ON THE NYSE
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Leveraging the power of business
to address America’s biggest challenges.

HOLDINGS

Select
holdings.

A family of businesses across insurance, waste and material recovery, agriculture, and the frontier — each run by its own team, each built to last.

I
INSURANCE

Republic Financial

A private insurance practice writing property, casualty, life, and specialty coverage for the people and businesses that drive America.

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II
WASTE & MATERIAL RECOVERY

Return

America’s next-generation platform for national waste management and material recovery.

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III
THOROUGHBRED · AGRICULTURE

Commonwealth Farm

The Morris family’s farm in the heart of Kentucky horse country — home to registered racing silks and the family’s thoroughbred interests.

IV
THE FRONTIER

Clear Constellation

Bringing America’s waste-management discipline to the orbital frontier — addressing debris in space before it becomes tomorrow’s problem.

THE COMMONWEALTH · LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
MORRIS FOUNDATION

Accessing the
American Dream.

The Morris Foundation is committed to investing in causes that provide opportunities for self-advancement, the alleviation of rural poverty, and access to higher education in Kentucky and beyond.

The Foundation takes a holistic approach to partnering with organizations — through targeted grants and scholarships, and a hands-on philanthropic approach that drives scale and impact using entrepreneurial principles.

“I believe Kentuckians and entrepreneurs in the Heartland have some of the best ideas in the world. The American Dream is alive in the Commonwealth.”

NATE MORRIS · FOUNDER & MANAGING TRUSTEE
IMPACT
Red Cross of Kentucky
Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation
Kentucky Colonels
Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
Kappa Sigma
University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business & Economics
Governor’s School for Entrepreneurs
Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame
Eastern High School
Shaping Our Appalachian Region (SOAR)
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Grace Hopkins Ruml Children’s Fund
Eastern Alumni & Community Association
USA Cares
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Let’s work
together.

Questions, opportunities, or a company with unrealized potential — tell us a little about it and we’ll be in touch.

Morris Industries
333 West Vine Street, Suite 300
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
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