Morris Industries
MORRIS INDUSTRIES · EST. 2010 · LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY

American
innovation,
operated.

We leverage 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
GEN. KENTUCKIAN
LEADERSHIP

The people behind it.

Nate Morris
FOUNDER

Nate Morris

Founded Morris Industries in 2010. Previously founded Rubicon Technologies — started in 2009 with a $10,000 line of credit, led as CEO for over twelve years, and brought public on the NYSE in a $2-billion transaction. First Kentuckian on Fortune’s 40 Under 40; youngest inductee, Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Founder and Managing Trustee of the Morris Foundation. Lives at Commonwealth Farm in Lexington with his wife, Jane, and son, JR.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Jane Mosbacher Morris

Founder and CEO of TO THE MARKET, a supply chain software company powering the ethical supply chain — an Inc. Best in Business and Fast Company Next Big Thing in Tech winner. Formerly of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism. One of Fortune’s 25 World’s Greatest Leaders (2020); Vice Chairman of CARE; author of Buy the Change You Want to See. Georgetown B.S.F.S.; Columbia MBA.

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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.

Have a company worth building?
Rubicon Technologies listing day at the New York Stock Exchange
$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.

01
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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02
WASTE & MATERIAL RECOVERY

Return

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

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03
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.

04
THE FRONTIER

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.

“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

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 — through targeted grants and scholarships, and a hands-on philanthropic approach that drives scale and impact using entrepreneurial principles.

IMPACT
Red Cross of Kentucky
Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation
Kentucky Colonels
Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
Kappa Sigma
UK 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 & 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.

OFFICE
333 West Vine Street, Suite 300
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
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