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Beyond Capital: How Relationship-First Investing Drives Long-Term Growth

At Co-X Holdings, we have always believed that the best investments aren't found on a spreadsheet—they are built through partnerships. Founded on the principle of the "Golden Rule" and a shared commitment to hard work, our investment philosophy goes far beyond writing a check. We step into the trenches as active partners, offering tactical strategy, deep operational expertise, and a connected network of industry leaders to scale businesses from early concepts to long-term profitability.

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Portfolio Spotlight: Pivot Parking Transforms Uptown Charlotte’s Mint Street Garage into an Award-Winning Asset

At Co-X Holdings, our investment philosophy is centered around partnering with companies that look at traditional industries through a lens of innovation, efficiency, and long-term asset value. A prime example of this strategy in action is our portfolio partner, Pivot Parking.

Pivot Parking recently published a comprehensive case study detailing their operational transformation of the Mint Street Parking Garage located in the heart of Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Shaping the Future of Regional Travel: Inside Co-X Properties’ Growing Hospitality Footprint

The landscape of regional travel is shifting beneath our feet. Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed a massive migration of talent, business, and tourism toward mid-sized markets and university hubs across the Southeast. Driven by corporate relocations, academic growth, and a desire for high-utility lifestyle destinations, these regions are thriving—but they require a new standard of infrastructure to support them.

At Co-X Holdings, we’ve always believed that real estate development shouldn't just meet existing demand; it should actively elevate the community it enters. Through our real estate and hospitality arm, Co-X Properties, founders Paul Adkison and Scott Diggs have committed over $80 million in hotel investments across the Carolinas to do exactly that.

By collaborating with premier brands like Marriott and Hilton, alongside world-class development and management partners, we are bringing premium, technology-forward spaces to the markets that need them most.

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Beyond Capital: Why Operational Infrastructure is the Ultimate Value Multiplier in Private Equity

In the modern investment landscape, writing a check is no longer enough to guarantee enterprise success.

For decades, traditional private equity and venture frameworks operated on a relatively straightforward formula: inject capital, set macro financial targets, and wait for the market to respond. But in today’s hyper-competitive, fast-moving corporate environment, capital has become a commodity. The real differentiator—the true driver of sustainable equity growth—is operational architecture.

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Scaling for the World Stage:

How Pivot Parking is Managing the World Cup Crowd—and What It Means for Your Business

The eyes of the world are officially on Atlanta. As World Cup matches kick off, the city is experiencing a massive influx of international visitors, tight security protocols, and unprecedented traffic coordination challenges. In the middle of this high-velocity environment, seamless parking management ceases to be a luxury—it becomes the literal engine that keeps the city's downtown core moving.

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In the Spotlight: Pivot Parking’s Mint Street Facility Featured in Charlotte Business Journal

Urban mobility and premium infrastructure are at the core of vibrant city centers. This week, the Charlotte Business Journal turned its spotlight on one of Uptown Charlotte's most vital economic hubs: the Mint Street parking deck at 410 S. Mint Street.

The feature highlights the extensive, ongoing renovations and strategic upgrades designed to modernize the deck and accommodate the rapid growth of Charlotte’s active corporate and entertainment sectors.

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Next-Gen PropTech: Vantaca Unveils Historic AI and Resident Experience Launch at CAI 2026

For a long time, community association management was stubbornly analog—defined by heavy paperwork, clogged back-office inboxes, and disconnected resident experiences.

That era is officially over.

This week at the 2026 CAI Annual Conference, our partner company Vantaca announced the largest product launch in its history, marking a massive frontier for the property technology (PropTech) space. By merging agentic AI infrastructure with fraud-safe vendor systems and an upgraded homeowner interface, Vantaca is delivering a fully connected ecosystem where the operational back-office weight runs itself, freeing management teams to focus entirely on human relationships and service excellence.

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Built for Better Performance: A Portfolio Update from Co-X Holdings

For Scott & Paul and our partners and investors at Co-X Holdings, we all believe that purposeful investment requires active, visionary management. We align ourselves with companies that use smarter operations, disruptive technology, and relationship-driven service to transform their industries.

Our portfolio companies aren't just hitting their milestones—they are actively redefining what performance looks like across hospitality, financial technology, community banking, and life sciences.

Here is a look at what our portfolio is accomplishing in the real world:

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Smarter Mobility, Stronger NOI: How Pivot Parking’s New Feature Rollouts Are Driving Commercial Asset Value

For commercial real estate owners and property managers, every square foot of an asset needs to perform. Yet, one of the largest physical footprints on any property—the parking infrastructure—is frequently underutilized, treated as a simple utility rather than a strategic financial driver.

At Co-X Holdings, we look for portfolio companies that challenge the status quo to unlock hidden value. That is exactly what Pivot Parking is doing with its latest slate of technology and operational rollouts. By bridging the gap between friction-free customer experience and data-driven property management, Pivot is proving that the right parking strategy directly impacts a building's bottom line.

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Navigating the New Reality of Community Management

A 44% year-over-year jump in median HOA dues—surging from around $500 to $757—is a headline that turns heads. On the surface, a number that large can trigger immediate concern for homeowners. But behind the statistics lies a complex macroeconomic shift that community association boards across the country are actively trying to navigate.

We are proud to highlight Ben Currin, CEO of Co-X portfolio company Vantaca, who was recently featured by Yahoo Finance to provide critical context on this exact inflection point in the American homeownership story.

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