The Builders Fund partners with companies whose fundamental business models directly address environmental and social challenges, and whose purpose can be harnessed for competitive advantage. We invest in established, high-growth North American-based companies with revenues between $20M-200M, positive cash flow, and values-driven management teams building activist brands and authentic cultures. Thematically, the fund focuses on Sustainable Systems and Human Elevation to decarbonize the economy, help fix our broken food system, address access and affordability, use our finite resources more efficiently, and to create a more equitable, sustainable future.
We are experienced operators and business builders ourselves, and our team of successful entrepreneurs leverages our collective expertise to guide and scale portfolio companies as they seek to address the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time. Over thirty of Builders’ founding Limited Partners are former operators and entrepreneurs: “Builders”, committed to serving as operating partners to the fund and to supporting the entrepreneurs and leaders who are investing to build a better world.
We target the ‘Missing Middle,’ a gap in the impact capital markets between venture and buyout stages. While the majority of early impact-focused capital flowed either to emerging markets, or to real assets and venture capital in Europe and North America, later capital flows have gone to large asset aggregators. What’s left is an enormous opportunity within small-cap buyout and growth equity investing that our expertise and scale is uniquely positioned to fill. This untapped opportunity in the lower mid-market, caused by the majority of capital flowing to larger deals, means companies in this segment are underserved by private equity and overcharged by banks, resulting in significant pent-up demand for new equity investment, loans, acquisitions, and company exits.
