Top 10 Family Offices in Boston (2026)

Boston is a strong hub for both research and startups, and is also home to some of the strongest family offices in the USA's Northeast.

Here are 10 active family offices headquartered in Boston, from our database:

1. HighSage Ventures
   Founded by Jonathon S. Jacobson, HighSage is a Boston-based investment firm backed by permanent capital. It invests in public and private companies across industries and security types, aiming to create value that funds philanthropic work.
2. Mugar Enterprises
   A privately held family firm with over 50 years of real estate development, operating, and investment experience. Its commercial portfolio includes shopping centers, entertainment venues, parking garages, hotels, and biotech lab space, alongside equity and bond holdings. The Mugar family has a long record of community service and philanthropy in the Greater Boston area.
3. Acunova Life Sciences
   Acunova invests directly and indirectly in healthcare, medtech, life science, and tech-bio startups. The family office favors founder-led organizations with a footprint in Asia and North America, and also backs healthcare innovation, public health, arts, and culture.
4. Kensington Capital Ventures
   The investment arm of Kensington Capital Holdings and a single-family office. It places private capital into private equity and venture funds and privately held companies around the world, with direct deals focused on early and late stage growth capital across multiple sectors.
5. Pilot House
   Pilot House is a single-family office. It provides a range of investment, philanthropic, administrative, and property management services.
6. Kensington Investment Company
   Founded in 1983, Kensington Investment Company is the family office of the Lewis family, based in Boston with offices in Utah. It invests mainly in New England and Utah real estate, direct stakes in private companies, and alternative vehicles such as private equity and venture capital funds.
7. Schooner Capital
   Schooner Capital is a family office in downtown Boston, founded in 1971 by Iron Mountain founder Vin Ryan. With no outside limited partners, it takes a long-term view, backing technology, software, and services companies privately while running a concentrated global public equity portfolio.
8. Cove Capital
   Cove Capital is a private family company that protects and builds a single family's financial and human capital while supporting its philanthropic goals. It invests directly and through funds, and looks for private equity and venture opportunities in early stage companies with revenues of $3M to $20M.
9. AVALT
   AVALT invests only its own capital, so it wins only when its portfolio companies succeed and grow. The firm focuses on investment results rather than management fees, making equity investments of $25M to $100M and above, with the ability to scale meaningfully larger.
10. Cabot-Wellington
    Cabot-Wellington is an investment management firm located in Boston. The family shares a legacy of compassion and philanthropic commitment, and the office administers and supports multiple philanthropic endeavors.

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