Morris Industries
EST. 2010 · LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

American Innovation,
quietly compounding.

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
4
SELECT HOLDINGS
9th
GENERATION KENTUCKIAN
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.

VENTURE STUDIOS

We build companies,
not portfolios.

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
AT FOUNDING
$2B
TO GO PUBLIC
50
STATES
1/9
KY NYSE LISTINGS EVER
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.

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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Return

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

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III.

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.

Clear Constellation

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

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.

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