Private Equity
Control buyouts of founder- and family-owned industrials and business services companies in North America and Europe.
Established 1998 · New York · London · Singapore
Trivest Partners LLP manages $18.4 billion across private equity, growth equity, real assets and private credit — partnering with founders and operators who are building businesses meant to outlast a cycle.
Our strategies
We invest where operational insight compounds — concentrated portfolios, deep sector fluency, and a hold period measured in business cycles rather than quarters.
Control buyouts of founder- and family-owned industrials and business services companies in North America and Europe.
Minority and structured capital for capital-efficient software and healthcare technology businesses scaling past $20M ARR.
Logistics, digital infrastructure and energy-transition assets with contracted cash flows and durable replacement-cost advantage.
Senior secured, unitranche and opportunistic financing for sponsor-backed and founder-led middle-market borrowers.
Track record
Roughly 71% of realised value creation across our flagship funds has come from earnings growth and margin expansion — not multiple arbitrage or financial engineering.
Illustrative composite, net of fees and carried interest. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
How we work
We map sub-sectors years ahead of a process, building relationships with owners long before a banker calls.
Operating partners, primary customer research and a standing investment committee that must reach unanimity.
A named value-creation plan with owners, milestones and capital attached before the wire is sent.
We exit when the plan is complete, not when the fund clock demands it — including continuation vehicles where value remains.
“We would rather own eight businesses we understand completely than forty we understand partially. Concentration is not a risk we tolerate — it is the discipline the returns depend on.”
Portfolio
A representative sample of current and realised holdings across our four strategies.
Carved out of a diversified conglomerate in 2019. Four bolt-ons, gross margin up 940 bps, sold to a strategic buyer in 2024.
Led the Series C in 2022 at $31M ARR. Now $118M ARR with net revenue retention of 128% and first full year of positive free cash flow.
Developed 240MW of contracted capacity across three campuses, fully pre-let to investment-grade counterparties on 15-year terms.
Insights
Why sponsors holding assets past year seven need an operating answer, not a financing one.
August 2026Grid interconnection queues are now the binding constraint on energy-transition returns.
June 2026Separating pricing power from churn suppression in vertical SaaS at scale.
April 2026Get in touch
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