Choice Hotels to Acquire Harvest Hosts, Expanding Its Reach with the Value-Minded Traveler Into Outdoor and RV Travel
Acquisition adds a differentiated, asset-light RV travel subscription platform in a complementary travel category
Stewart Bainum, Sr., founded the family office. His legacy also includes the creation of nursing home and hospitality chains Manor Care and Choice Hotels International—each a dominant industry force.
For more than seven decades, our family’s investment philosophy has been simple: sacrifice short-term gain for long-term value creation. Our approach hinges on empowering the right people with the right tools at the right time to build lasting, worthwhile investments and operating businesses. An abiding outlook includes being cognizant of our impact on society, the environment, and our communities, both local and global.
The Bainum family network of organizations may have different missions, but they all share the same values.

Acquisition adds a differentiated, asset-light RV travel subscription platform in a complementary travel category
The additions to the Cultivate Next portfolio include Benchmark Labs, IMIO, Clean Crop Technologies, Athian, SIMPLi and PopID — each bringing a unique approach to improving how food is grown, sourced, tracked and experienced
Investment to Accelerate Fellow’s Plan to Grow through Continued Geographic Expansion, Technology Investments and Strategic Acquisitions