OUR PROMISE

For more than 40 years, we’ve been committed to the support and growth of founder & family-owned businesses, acting with integrity and transparency at every stage.

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.

Why Trivest?

Trivest is honored to be included on Inc’s list of Founder-Friendly Investors again in 2023, for a fifth year in a row.*

Is Private Equity Right for You?

Considering outside investment is a pivotal decision for any business owner. As the founder of your business, choosing the right private equity firm builds the foundation of a long-term business partnership as well as the future you see for your company.

A private equity firm becomes the majority stakeholder of a business when making a control investment. This allows a firm to align its operational approach with a founder’s ideal trajectory, catapulting into new areas of growth. Majority shareholders provide cash as well as intellectual capital, such as scaling into new market verticals and providing exposure to outside expertise.

As its name implies, a minority or non-control investment allows a business owner to seek outside investment without relinquishing more than 50% of their business to an investor. Minority investments help build partnership and trust, providing stability during the transition and supplying a founder with fresh capital while letting them retain operational control.

Our Funds

Trivest’s fair, transparent process begins with dedicated funds. We’ve developed four distinct investment strategies to invest in founder and family-owned businesses. We are committed to and capable of helping a broad range of companies flourish across the United States and Canada.

Mid-Market Fund

Trivest Mid-Market Fund makes control, or majority, investments in founder and family-owned businesses in the lower middle market.

Growth Fund

Trivest Growth Investment Fund (“TGIF”) invests in fast-growing businesses with founders looking to retain a majority stake in their company.

Discovery Fund

Trivest Discovery Fund invests primarily in small, successful companies within fragmented industries that have enormous potential to scale.

Recognition Fund

Trivest Recognition Fund invests in larger, successful founder and family-owned companies that have already begun to scale.

About Our Funds

What do Founders Say About Trivest?

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.

What do Founders Think About Path to 3x?

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 +

Eliminating Pain Points for Founders

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.

The Trivest Promise

Corporate Responsibility

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.

DEI + ESG At Trivest

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Award Disclosure

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, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Additional awards disclosures can be found on our Legal page.

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