# Miramar Equity Partners

Family-office capital for searchers.

A Dallas family-office investor focused exclusively on search-acquired businesses: reports backing 125-plus search funds and 100-plus portfolio companies over nearly a decade, with former searcher-CEOs on the team and stated search, platform, and holdco capabilities; its team page calls it the private equity platform of Miramar Holdings.

- Category: Capital & Investors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Learn & Choose Your Path, Set Up & Fund the Search
- Website: https://www.miramarequity.com

## 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.

- 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.

## What It Costs

Investment terms, not fees: search-fund and acquisition economics negotiated per the model's conventions.

## Best For

Traditional [searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher) who want family-office patience rather than fund-cycle pressure, with an investor bench that has searched and operated itself

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Family-office capital removes the fund-clock pressure that shapes some investor behavior
- Pro: 125-plus [search funds](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/search-fund) backed with a team of former searcher-CEOs
- Pro: Search, platform, and holdco capabilities cover more than one ownership shape
- Con: Check sizes are published per strategy and a five-point scorecard says what it likes to see; the equity split, step-up and governance are not published
- Con: Traditional search economics apply, with the standard equity and governance trade
- Con: 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.

## Compared With

- Scale institution or family office on your cap table? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/pacific-lake-partners-vs-miramar-equity-partners.md)

## Sources

- https://miramarequity.com/partner-with
- https://miramarequity.com/we
- https://www.miramarequity.com/
- https://www.miramarequity.com/great-entrepreneurs-companies

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Last checked: 2026-09-23

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