Search Fund Partners
searchfunds.net Direct investor
Search Fund Partners is a private equity firm that invests in search funds, providing capital and support to entrepreneurs who acquire and operate small businesses. Founded in 2003, the firm focuses on the search fund model and has a team of partners with CEO experience.
Search Fund Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Menlo Park, United States, founded in 2003. It invests directly in companies, in business Services, healthcare, education and software / Technology.
“We support entrepreneurs via a bespoke and craftsman approach to search fund investing.”
— Search Fund Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Business Services, Healthcare, Education, Software / Technology, Consumer Services, Home Services, Manufacturing
- Founded
- 2003
Team, as Search Fund Partners publishes it
- Jim Edmunds PARTNER
- Noah Riner PARTNER
- Todd Tracey PARTNER
- Rich Kelley PARTNER
- Dave Carver PARTNER
Names and roles exactly as listed on searchfunds.net. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 45 co-investors found.
- BK Growth Partners Management Company LLC 20 shared companies: page-vault.com, conciergeplus.com, nutrishare.com, softrip.com…
- WSC & Company, LLC 16 shared companies: abs-inc.biz, upperhand.com, spanishschoolhouse.com, bigbox.com…
- Saltoun Capital Partners Management LLC 16 shared companies: page-vault.com, nutrishare.com, rescuestat.com, softrip.com…
- Anacapa Partners 15 shared companies: americanvisiongrp.com, bigbox.com, cer.bo, charterimpact.com…
- Maven Equity Partners, LLC 10 shared companies: climateearth.com, energyogre.com, nexploreusa.com, pteverywhere.com…
- Peterson Partners 7 shared companies: page-vault.com, conciergeplus.com, luggageforward.com, nutrishare.com…
- ETA Equity 6 shared companies: bigbox.com, investormachine.com, nexploreusa.com, dhalab.com…
- Cerralvo Capital 4 shared companies: rescuestat.com, canyonlandsfund.com, fileonq.com, climateearth.com
- Permira 1 shared company: abs-inc.biz
- Brightstar Capital Partners 1 shared company: investorflow.com
and 35 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Search Fund Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.searchfunds.net/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.searchfunds.net/approachlayer, type, founded
- https://www.searchfunds.net/portfolioinvests_in_geographies, sectors
- https://www.searchfunds.net/teampeople
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