Rick Frio, Frio Capital

DEVELOP

Every venture starts with identifying a gap the market hasn’t solved yet. Rick Frio has spent 25 years developing businesses in sectors where infrastructure, technology, and timing converge — from SaaS freight platforms and frac sand terminals to commercial solar projects and data center site selection. Frio Capital brings that development experience to bear on new opportunities across logistics, energy, and digital infrastructure.

FINANCE

Frio Capital Group provides capital, strategic guidance, and operational expertise to ventures at the intersection of technology, energy, and logistics. With a track record that includes co-founding a $2B+ freight platform, developing energy infrastructure across three states, and building LTL freight solutions for middle-market shippers, Frio Capital invests where it has earned the right to have conviction.

BUILD

Ideas don’t create value — execution does. Rick Frio has served as founder, CEO, Chairman, and operating partner across multiple ventures, building teams, infrastructure, and platforms from the ground up. Frio Capital doesn’t just back businesses. It builds them.

Rick Frio is a serial entrepreneur with a 25-year track record building technology, energy, and logistics businesses from the ground up. He is Managing Partner of Frio Capital Group and a partner at Datumsite Partners, LLC — a data center site selection firm — and RTS Solutions, which helps businesses reduce LTL freight costs through buying power and technology. Rick is also a partner at IMC Energy, focused on commercial solar, community solar, and distributed energy generation.

Earlier ventures include co-founding BestTransport.com, a SaaS TMS platform that processed over $2 billion in freight transactions, and founding MPR Transloading and Energy Services, which built the largest automated flat-storage frac sand terminal in the Utica Shale region. Rick is a graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University and a speaker at industry conferences across logistics, energy, and technology.