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 for almost a decade, and the private equity platform of Miramar Holdings by its own team page. It counts 125-plus funds backed, 105 companies listed and a board seat on more than 30% of them, and its home-page counter is set to over $250M invested in search-acquired companies.

Lane

Traditional, Self-Funded

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 $1M to $10M of EBITDA, strong recurring revenue and durable competitive positions, on its front page. Its five-point scorecard on the strategies page asks for over $20M of enterprise value, over $10M of revenue or over $2M of EBITDA, net revenue retention above 100%, growth above 20%, margins above 20% and the rule of forty. Says those are not hard-and-fast criteria.

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 grid lists 105 companies with a description, a country, a sector, a status and a strategy tag, and names nobody; three highlighted companies name their leaders. Nothing profiles the people it backs or requires anything 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

$1M to $10M of equity into a traditional or self-funded search, $2M to $10M committed to a holding company, and $5M to $25M for a recapitalization or growth round, by its own strategies page.

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.

After The Close

Says it sits on the board at more than thirty percent of its portfolio.

Roadmap Stages

1. Learn & Choose Your Path3. Set Up & Fund the Search

Pros and Cons

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

1. A first conversation on your background and why search, before any deal.
2. A deep dive on your plan: industries, criteria, and how you will source.
3. Backing for the search itself, then a fresh underwrite when you bring a live deal.
4. 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

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