Miramar Equity Partners
At a Glance
The family-office alternative on the traditional bench: same model, longer clock; worth prioritizing if patience matters more to you than brand.
- Pricing
- Custom Pricing, Investment terms, not fees: search-fund and acquisition economics negotiated per the model's conventions.
- Best For
- Traditional searchers who want family-office patience rather than fund-cycle pressure, with an investor bench that has searched and operated itself
- Track Record
- A family office focused only on search: 125-plus funds backed, 105 companies listed, and a board seat on more than 30% of them.
- Lane
- Traditional
- Funds
- The search phase and the deal
- Based
- Dallas.
- Invests
- Its own portfolio names companies in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin America.
- Buys
- Software, healthcare and services companies with recurring revenue, screened on a rule-of-40 scorecard of net revenue retention above 100%, growth above 20% and margin above 20%. Two panels on its own site give different EBITDA floors, so no floor is restated here.
- Before A First Call
- No condition, and it names who it wants to hear from instead: a prospective searcher exploring a partnership, an advisor with a referral, or somebody simply curious about its approach.
- First-Time Operators
- A claim about its own team rather than its searchers: that its operating partners are former CEOs who have searched, acquired, scaled and exited. Its portfolio pairs 105 companies with the people running them and characterises none of them.
- How Long The Search Runs
- No length on the search and nothing about what happens if it ends without a deal, on the pages this review read. Ask what the clock is before you sign anything.
- Published Terms
- No check size, stake or fee on the pages this review read. Most firms on this shelf publish none, so ask early rather than late.
- What A Searcher Gets
- Not published on the pages this review read. It is the figure a searcher most wants and most of this shelf does not print it, so ask before the first call rather than after.
- Roadmap Stages
- 1. Learn & Choose Your Path3. Set Up & Fund the Search
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Family-office capital removes the fund-clock pressure that shapes some investor behavior
- 125-plus search funds backed with a team of former searcher-CEOs
- Search, platform, and holdco capabilities cover more than one ownership shape
Cons
- Terms, check sizes, and selection criteria are not published
- Traditional search economics apply, with the standard equity and governance trade
- A single family's capital concentrates relationship risk in one partner
What Searchers Say
A regular name in searcher-side investor lists; the family-office structure and ex-searcher team are the recurring reasons given for calling them early.
How to Approach
Firms do not publish a term sheet you can prepare against, so this is how traditional (investor-backed) search capital comes in, what it weighs, and how to arrive ready.
The Typical Arc
- A first conversation on your background and why search, before any deal.
- A deep dive on your plan: industries, criteria, and how you will source.
- Backing for the search itself, then a fresh underwrite when you bring a live deal.
- A board seat and governance once you close.
What It Weighs
- Whether you will finish a two-year search, not only start one.
- The quality of your thesis and target criteria.
- How you will behave on a cap table over a long hold.
How to Prepare
- Bring a sourcing thesis, not a blank slate. Buyer Profile Builder
- Know which firms lead versus follow, and on what terms. Investors
- Make your operator case on one page. Buyer Profile Builder