Haebler Capital

L. Scott Frantz, the firm's President and Chairman, leads investment decisions. Frantz is a former Connecticut State Senator and Dartmouth Tuck graduate. He is supported by Senior Vice President and General Counsel Mark J. Ashenfelter, who brings structured-credit expertise through his role as Chairman of Oxford Lane Capital Corp (public record).

The capital originates from two industrial fortunes. The first is International Flavors & Fragrances, founded by Scott Frantz's maternal grandfather, William T. Haebler. The second is the Hanley Company, a privately held industrial and real estate conglomerate, through Frantz's wife, Allison 'Icy' Hanley (public record).

Haebler Capital's Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Mark J. Ashenfelter, serves as Chairman of Oxford Lane Capital Corp, a publicly traded closed-end fund focused on CLO equity and debt. This creates a co-investment relationship between the family office and a public vehicle, offering institutional allocators audited exposure alongside the Haebler balance sheet (per Oxford Lane Capital Corp public filings).

Haebler primarily makes direct investments in early-stage companies and operates a specialty coffee trading business called Ticonderoga. The Oxford Lane Capital Corp relationship provides exposure to structured credit on a fund basis, but the family office itself leans toward direct, balance-sheet investments rather than third-party fund commitments (public record).

The firm focuses on early-stage startup investments and startup formation, per available operational records. The presence of a specialty coffee trading business and a structured-credit affiliate suggests stage and asset-class flexibility beyond pure venture, but no growth-equity or buyout mandates are publicly disclosed.

Deal flow likely draws on Scott Frantz's political and Tuck School of Business networks, as well as the Hanley-Haebler industrial lineage. Frantz's decade in the Connecticut State Senate and his membership in the Tuck Hall Society provide access to a northeastern establishment network that can surface private investment opportunities before they reach wider markets (public record).

The family supports at least two philanthropic entities: the Christopher Haebler Frantz Center and Kids In Crisis, a Connecticut-based nonprofit. Operational separation between Haebler Capital's investment activities and these charitable vehicles is not publicly detailed, but they are treated as distinct entities in firm materials.