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10 USA Family Offices That Buy Small Businesses (2026)

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Here are ten active family offices from our database that are based in the USA and acquire small and mid-sized businesses, along with their websites:

  1. Bond Ventures (New York)
    Bond Ventures is a boutique international private investment firm based in New York that creates and builds valuable new companies. Focused on small and middle market businesses, it finances at seed, growth and exit stages, makes strategic acquisitions, and implements new business strategies.
  2. CED1 Investments (Cherry Hills Village)
    CED1 Investments is a single-source-of-capital family office based in Colorado with roots in the Midwest, seeking acquisitions of small and lower middle market businesses headquartered in the United States. The firm and its limited partner have operational experience across health care, IT, heavy manufacturing and transportation, and currently hold one portfolio company in specialty retail.
  3. Clearview Capital Partners (KG Investments) (New York)
    Founded in 1999, Clearview Capital is a private investment firm specializing in the acquisition and recapitalization of lower-middle market companies in North America. Since inception it has completed more than 150 transactions across a wide variety of industries. The firm is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices in California, North Carolina and Tennessee.
  4. Cottonwood Acquisitions (New York)
    Cottonwood Acquisitions is a family office partnership focused on investing in small to mid-sized businesses. It seeks to partner with talented management teams to create value with a long-term investment horizon.
  5. Coughlin Capital (Corte Madera)
    Coughlin Capital is a family owned and operated investment firm dedicated to working with lower middle-market Logistics and Supply Chain companies. The firm has established three investment platforms - Logistics and Supply Chain, Entrepreneur Partnerships, and Real Estate - and pursues a long-term investment philosophy focused on building equity alongside its partners.
  6. Davenforth LLC (Texas)
    Davenforth is a joint family office that invests in small and medium-sized businesses. The firm is actively searching for businesses that meet its investment criteria and is currently buying companies in the cloud communication industry.
  7. DRA Family Office (San Diego)
    DRA Family Office is a family-office-backed private investments firm based in San Diego. Founded in 2019, it invests in both lower middle market private equity and early stage companies spanning industries such as real estate, operating businesses, and equity venture opportunities.
  8. Driscoll Holdings (Conshohocken)
    Rob and Lee Driscoll formed Driscoll Holdings in 2012 to focus on partnering with talented entrepreneurs and management teams in lower-middle market operating companies. With a stable source of family-based capital, including investments from select high net worth executives, the firm makes long-term investments, providing capital and strategic and operating resources to accelerate growth.
  9. First Haven Capital (New York)
    First Haven Capital is a private investment firm based in New York. Through its direct investment program, the firm targets non-control equity investments in leading lower middle market companies in partnership with high quality investment sponsors. As an affiliate of the Turtle Creek family office, First Haven maintains a flexible, patient capital base for long hold periods.
  10. Greater Sum Ventures (Knoxville)
    Greater Sum Ventures is a family office and entrepreneurial growth equity firm based in Knoxville that invests in lower-middle market tech-enabled business services companies. With proven operational and investing experience, the team aims to add exceptional value to each portfolio company as a long-term equity investor.

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