You founded your business to serve a purpose: to provide for your family, to fill a void in the marketplace, to service the people of your community—perhaps all the above. Searching for capital to invest in your business should not tear down what you’ve spent years building. At Trivest, we strive to maintain the culture that a founder has worked tirelessly to preserve. We strongly believe that a company’s culture is a key determinate of success. You put your business first, and we will, too.
When opening your family-owned business to those outside of the family, seek investors that will treat you like partners. Find a private equity firm that will align interests to carry your business through its next stages of growth and development, while leaving your legacy in place.
For more than 40 years, Trivest has been exclusively focused on the support and growth of founder-led and family-owned businesses.
Trivest Mid-Market Fund makes control, or majority, investments in founder and family-owned businesses in the lower middle market.
Trivest Growth Investment Fund (“TGIF”) invests in fast-growing businesses with founders looking to retain a majority stake in their company.
Trivest Discovery Fund invests primarily in small, successful companies within fragmented industries that have enormous potential to scale.
Trivest Recognition Fund invests in larger, successful founder and family-owned companies that have already begun to scale.
Your business, your culture. You deserve a private equity firm that respects that. At Trivest, we believe in aligning our interests with those of the management team at each company. We do not use an operating partner model—meaning we don’t “parachute” Trivest employees into your company post-closing to run operations. Instead, we serve as active board members, providing management teams with the flexibility to operate and preserve their company culture.
We invest in well-run, profitable businesses. It is our job to elevate that business, not uproot it. We treat founders as transparent, fair, and honest investment partners, navigating each company through its next stage of growth and development. Trivest deploys its capital and network of resources to build stronger businesses. More +
The Trivest Promise is one we take to heart. We work hard to eliminate the typical pain points in a transaction—the ones that give our industry a bad rap. Bottom line: we close at the price in our LOI.
We are committed to promoting and fostering a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the organization. We believe in creating an atmosphere of mutual respect by attracting, retaining, and promoting individuals of all backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities.
As a firm, we take corporate responsibility seriously, and as a proactive step, Trivest is now a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.
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Inc. Magazine’s Founder-Friendly Investors list honors private equity and venture capital firms with a track record of being founder-friendly in accordance with Inc.’s selection criteria. Criteria considered by Inc. is comprised of a summary of experiences and data shared by founders on a questionnaire as to their partnership with private equity and venture capital firms and how they have grown during these partnerships. Such opinions and beliefs are subjective. Inc. is unaffiliated with Trivest. Trivest did not pay any compensation to Inc. or any third party in connection with its receipt of this recognition. However, Trivest paid an application fee to participate in the selection process and a licensing fee to distribute the results. The receipt of any compensation could potentially cause a conflict of interest relating to the grant of any award or designation. Moreover, this information should not be considered an endorsement of Trivest, indicative of any investor’s experience with Trivest or indicative of any investment fund’s or Trivest’s future performance. Trivest received this award in 2019 and 2020 as the PE50 list; and in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 as the Founder-Friendly Investors list.
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