Here are ten family offices from our database that are based in the Mountain West, along with their websites:
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Revelis Capital Group (Denver, Colorado)
Revelis Capital Group is a family office-backed private investment firm with offices in Boulder and Aspen that provides capital to privately held companies positioned for strong growth. It uses a hybrid principal and brokerage model that brings in individual, family office and institutional investors, which lets it pursue deals ranging from smaller venture opportunities to larger private equity transactions. Revelis is sector agnostic but limits its activity to markets where it has industry knowledge and deal experience. Startups and private equity are its main areas. -
Gorlin Companies (Aspen, Colorado)
Gorlin Companies is a healthcare-focused single family office led by Steve Gorlin, who has spent more than 45 years building companies, mainly in biotech and pharma. The office invests across biotech and pharma at all stages, with an emphasis on US companies that have near-term potential in international markets, and it works with founders on management, operations and investor relationships. Realized investments include Hycor, Theragenics, CytRx, Medicis, EntreMed, Medivation (sold to Pfizer for $14.2 billion), MiMedx and Kabbage (sold to American Express). -
Area 15 Ventures (Castle Pines, Colorado)
Area 15 Ventures is a Colorado private equity business owned by the Liniger family together with friends and employees. Private ownership lets it make quick decisions and provide personal support to its companies. It focuses on emerging franchisors and high-growth businesses that need investment to scale, drawing on the team's franchising experience with RE/MAX and Motto Mortgage. It is also exploring emerging technologies and telecommunications infrastructure, and it brings experience in business development, marketing, franchise sales, training and international expansion. -
Pinebrook Capital Partners (West Jordan, Utah)
Pinebrook Capital Partners is a family office with agricultural roots in northern Utah, focused on growing communities, companies and causes. It develops real estate projects where people live, work and spend their free time, and it makes venture capital, private equity and public market investments in businesses whose products and services improve lives. Its portfolio includes assets held directly or through partnerships in 16 US states and select international markets. Pinebrook also supports charitable causes in three areas: humanitarian aid, faith-based funding and local programs. -
HELM Investment Group (Alpine, Utah)
HELM Investment Group is a family office that invests in entrepreneurs and aims to help them reach their potential by providing vision, value and resources to its business partners. The office looks for founders with ambitious goals and the drive to pursue them. HELM invests in industries it knows well, including consumer goods, health and nutrition, and technology, and its listed sectors also include wellness, SaaS, fintech and business services. -
Cumming Capital Management (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Cumming Capital Management is a single family office founded in 2008 by Ian Cumming and his two sons, John and David, to manage and grow the family estate. Its team has more than 50 years of collective experience investing across a broad range of asset classes and partnership structures. The office is based in Salt Lake City, and its focus areas include private equity, private credit, public equities and real estate. -
Lone Eagle Capital (Incline Village, Nevada)
Lone Eagle Capital is a privately held entity that manages investments for the Lyons family and has been led by Tim Lyons since 2006. It looks for investments in hedge funds, private credit, real estate and venture capital. The office has made direct investments and built relationships with managers across opportunistic global value, systematic trading CTAs, life settlements, special situations, real estate development, residential and commercial real estate debt, and receivable factoring. Lone Eagle also invests as an angel and early-stage investor in growth companies. -
HRM (Harlem River Navy) (Las Vegas, Nevada)
HRM is a multi family office connected to Harlem River Navy, a referral-only private investment platform that makes principal investments in private opportunities run by experienced entrepreneurs and operators. The platform grew out of the success the founding partners and their families have had in high-end real estate and venture capital. It uses its reputation, capital and relationships to sustain and grow the legacy of its member families, and its focus areas include venture capital, real estate, private equity and public equities. -
Sonoma Capital Management (Jackson, Wyoming)
Sonoma Capital Management is a private, unregistered family office investment company in Jackson that manages individual accounts and a family partnership. It invests across corporate capital structures using short-term and long-term strategies, mainly in US public securities that it believes are misunderstood, overlooked or undervalued, or that offer favorable risk and return profiles. Public equities are its primary focus. -
Cherry Creek Family Offices (Denver, Colorado)
Cherry Creek Family Offices is an employee-owned independent investment advisor and full-service family office for ultra-high-net-worth families. Since 2010 it has focused on providing independent investment advice and family office services to a select group of clients. The firm aims to offer the feel of a single family office within a multi family office structure, and its team is based in Denver.
How to use this list
The Mountain West offices on this list deploy capital into startups, healthcare and biotech companies, franchise businesses, real estate, hedge funds and public securities, with most of them based in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming. Many describe themselves as flexible on deal size and structure, so the clearest signal of fit is the sector and stage focus each one states. Read each office's website, follow any deal submission instructions it gives, and tailor your first message to the asset class that office names.
Decision-makers at these family offices
- Revelis Capital Group: Blake Pendleton (Principal); Oliver Hopkinson (Co-Founder and Managing Principal)
- Gorlin Companies: Steve Gorlin (Founder); Elena Ulansky (Managing Partner)
- Area 15 Ventures: Daniel Predovich (Partner); Adam Contos (Partner)
- Pinebrook Capital Partners: Elan Stukov (CFO); Michael Dexter-Smith (President)
- HELM Investment Group: Ritch Wood (Managing Partner); Aaron Powell (Partner)
- Lone Eagle Capital: Tim Lyons (Managing Director, Founding Principal, Chief Investment Officer)
- HRM (Harlem River Navy): William Werkmeister (Partner)
- Sonoma Capital Management: Jeff Thorp (Managing Principal)
- Cherry Creek Family Offices: Chris McPartlan (Vice President); Corey McKiernan (Chief Investment Officer)
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