Rebecca Jin
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- Full Name
- Rebecca Jin
- Title
- Managing Director (previously Principal)
- Firm
- Patricia Industries — the wholly-owned direct-investment arm of Investor AB
- Firm Type
- Long-term / evergreen direct investor (industrial holding company; not an angel or seed fund)
- Investment Stage
- Established, mid-to-large private companies for controlling or significant ownership stakes — *not* seed/angel rounds
- Target Company Profile
- Profitable, market-leading mid-cap companies with strong management and durable competitive positions, held over very long horizons with no fixed exit
- Sector Focus
- Healthcare, industrial / business services, technology-enabled services
- Geographic Focus
- North America (with Investor AB's broader base in the Nordics/Europe)
- Location
- New York, United States
Background
Rebecca Jin is a Managing Director at Patricia Industries in New York, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Sweden's Investor AB (whose principal owner is the Wallenberg Foundations). Patricia Industries makes long-term, direct investments — typically controlling or significant minority stakes — in established mid-sized companies, holding them without a predetermined exit horizon. Jin joined the North American team in 2018 as a Principal and was promoted to Managing Director in January 2022.
Before Patricia Industries, Jin was a Vice President at Warburg Pincus (2015–2018) in the Industrial & Business Services Group, where she worked on the firm's investments in companies including TriMark, Sotera Health, Electronic Funds Source, and WEX. Earlier in her career she was an investment professional at Providence Equity Partners and began in the Technology, Media & Telecom investment banking group at Goldman Sachs.
Jin earned a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Across her private-equity and holding-company roles she has served on the boards of several portfolio companies, giving her operating-level exposure to healthcare and industrial businesses.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests through Patricia Industries' evergreen, balance-sheet capital — the firm reinvests dividends and proceeds indefinitely and explicitly avoids the fixed fund life and forced-exit dynamics of traditional private equity.
- Targets established, profitable, market-leading companies — not early-stage startups; check profiles are sized for controlling or significant ownership of mid-to-large businesses.
- Concentrated in healthcare, industrial and business/technology-enabled services, mirroring both her Warburg Pincus background and Patricia Industries' existing portfolio (e.g., Mölnlycke, Permobil, Piab, Sarnova, Advanced Instruments, BraunAbility, Laborie).
- Emphasis on active, long-term ownership: partnering with strong management teams, sitting on boards, and supporting operational value creation over many years rather than quick flips.
Notable Investments
- BraunAbility — leading manufacturer of wheelchair-accessible vehicles and mobility products; a Patricia Industries portfolio company.
- Sarnova — distributor of healthcare and emergency-medical products; Patricia Industries portfolio company.
- HireVue — video-interviewing and hiring-assessment software company (board role).
- Q'Straint — maker of wheelchair-securement and passenger-safety systems (board role).
- Digitech Computer, Inc. — EMS billing and revenue-cycle-management technology (board role).
- Sotera Health — sterilization and lab-testing services for the medical/pharma industry.
- TriMark USA — foodservice equipment and supplies distributor.
- Electronic Funds Source / WEX — payments and fleet-card businesses.
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