
Frederick Naschold
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- Full Name
- Frederick T. ("Rick") Naschold
- Title
- Partner and Co-founder
- Firm
- Dominion Partners, L.C.
- Firm Type
- Middle-market investment banking / M&A advisory (FINRA/SIPC-registered broker-dealer) — *not a seed-stage angel fund; see note below*
- Investment Stage
- Established, profitable middle-market companies (M&A, buyouts, private debt/mezzanine, equity and public offerings) rather than seed-stage startups
- Sector Focus
- Manufacturing, distribution, services, building materials, construction, energy, food, packaging, technology, healthcare, and retail
- Geographic Focus
- Mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States
- Location
- Glen Allen / Richmond, Virginia (4801 Cox Road)
Background
Frederick T. Naschold is a co-founder and partner of Dominion Partners, L.C., an investment banking firm established in 1996 and headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area (Glen Allen). He brings more than 40 years of investment banking experience focused on middle-market companies across the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. His career has spanned mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, private debt, mezzanine, and equity financings, as well as public offerings of securities.
Before co-founding Dominion Partners, Naschold spent roughly two decades with predecessor organizations of what are today Truist Securities and Wells Fargo Securities, working on financing and advisory transactions for regional middle-market businesses. That institutional background underpins Dominion Partners' positioning as a boutique advisor to owners and senior management of privately held companies.
He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond and an M.B.A. from Emory University. At Dominion Partners, the firm reports having completed more than 150 transactions across a broad set of industries, with combined partner experience exceeding 60 years. The firm is a registered broker-dealer and a member of FINRA and SIPC.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Advises and finances established, cash-flowing middle-market companies, not early-stage/seed startups — the practical inverse of the "seed angel" stub label.
- Core services: mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, private debt/mezzanine and equity financings, and public offerings.
- Sector breadth rather than a single vertical: manufacturing, distribution, services, building materials, construction, energy, food, packaging, technology, healthcare, and retail.
- Geography: concentrated in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, consistent with the firm's Richmond, VA base.
- Firm philosophy emphasizes long-term client relationships, integrity, and delivering results for business owners and senior management pursuing strategic and financial goals.
Notable Investments
- Dominion Partners, L.C. transaction record — the firm reports 150+ completed middle-market M&A and financing transactions since 1996 across manufacturing, healthcare, technology, and other industries. Specific deal names attributable to Naschold personally were not publicly verifiable.
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