Investors
Search Fund Partners
The longest-tenured dedicated search investor, backing searches and the acquisitions they produce since 2004.
Pacific Lake Partners
The scale player: describes itself as the largest dedicated search investor, with hundreds of searchers backed.
Anacapa Partners
A founder-investor who has personally run searches; a first-call for operator empathy on the cap table.
Trilogy Search Partners
Partner-capital firm valued for operator depth and post-close support over sheer portfolio size.
ETA Equity
Deep pattern recognition on the partnership: a co-founder who has backed over 90 search funds personally.
Endurance Search Partners
A family-office anchor: patient capital, with hundreds of search partnerships already behind it.
Relay Investments
A lead investor in most searches it joins, publishing a 15 to 25% cap table and $1M to $3.5M checks.
Aspect Investors
Led by a former searcher-CEO reporting nearly 200 search-fund investments, with former searchers on the team.
Housatonic Partners
A 1994-founded firm with a dedicated search practice and average holds past seven years; patient capital by habit.
The Cambria Group
Structure-flexible across 300-plus platforms: search fund executives, independent sponsors, co-investments.
Miramar Equity Partners
Dallas family-office capital for search-acquired businesses: 125-plus searches backed, ex-searcher CEOs on staff.
WSC & Company
ETA-focused capital that publishes its target: founder-owned businesses with roughly $2M to $10M of EBITDA.
Futaleufu Partners
Mentorship-first, run by the author of the model's original course; its operator-LPs sit on boards.
Applied Equity (formerly Bradford Brown)
A one-partner Boston shop on many cap tables: eighteen McKinsey partner years in services, SaaS, and data.
Peterson Partners
A two-decade practice whose founder, Joel Peterson, backed Asurion, the model's most-cited early name.
M2O
A Los Angeles family office since 1992: traditional search capital and self-funded gaps from one balance sheet.
Liberty Search Ventures
The dedicated search-fund vehicle of a New York PE firm: 5 to 10% of a search's commitments, not of the deal.
Istria Capital
Europe's dedicated search-fund backer since 2016: 16 searchers across Spain, Germany, the UK, and France.
Vonzeo Capital
The global traditional backer: search and acquisition financed across thirteen named countries.
GT Entrepreneurs
Buys a unit or two of a search fund and publishes the arithmetic, including the multiple it will not pay above.
Ambit Partners
A specialist search investor working seven named regions, from the fund itself through the equity gap.
Footbridge Partners
Publishes the deal it wants in numbers, $1.5M to $7M of EBITDA, and takes three or four entrepreneurs a year.
NextGen Growth Partners
Entrepreneur-in-residence model: search inside the firm on salary, then lead what you acquire.
Novastone Capital Advisors
The operator-led program lane, with a published eight-step selection and a search phase it caps at 24 months.
Brydon Group
The cohort-scale employed program: a search salary, 46 acquisitions, $30M-plus of equity per platform.
Sleeping Giant Capital
Place-based employed search in West Michigan: train first, then search on salary with acquisition capital committed.
WAD Capital
Benelux salaried search on the lane's only published terms: a monthly fee, financing, and vesting equity.
SMEVentures
The Asia Pacific lane: a funded search with a salary, then five to ten years as CEO of what you buy.
TTCER Partners
The Asurion operators' partnership: deal-stage capital and board depth, with no search-phase backing.
Plexus Capital
Structured capital whose $977M seventh fund names search funds, at $5M to $25M initial checks.
Search Fund Accelerator
A cohort of solo searchers, with the equity a searcher earns published and the pay during the search not.
American Operator
Buys the business itself and installs a vetted operator as salaried CEO with day-one equity and a buy-up path.
Teamshares
Buys the company first and recruits a president to run it, and never says on its own site what that president is paid.
CapitalPad
Fills the equity gap on a deal already under LOI through one SPV, at no fee to the searcher.
Smash.vc
Founder-led balance-sheet investor writing minority checks into self-funded deals with a modest equity gap.
Prox Search Capital
Publishes both halves of the dilution question: what it writes, and the ownership range it takes for it.
Entrepreneurial Capital
Capital from the letter of intent onward, with a named program that reads deals for searchers who have none yet.
ETA Funding Partners
Publishes how many investments it expects to make in a year as well as what each one is worth.
New Majority Capital
Self-funded buyers only, at half a million dollars of EBITDA and up, with diligence advanced at zero interest.
Westerly Group
Permanent capital behind an operator rather than a fund with an exit clock, and no size or industry criteria named.