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About Arven Capital

A Family Office Run by Operators, for Operators

We invest permanent capital with patience and conviction, standing beside founders and search-fund entrepreneurs long after the deal closes.

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$120M+

Assets Under
Management

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Our Funds Over Time

$45M

Fund I (2022)

$75M

Fund II (2025)

Our Story

Two Decades of Building, Operating, and Backing Businesses

Arven Capital grew out of a simple belief: the best partner for an entrepreneur is someone who has sat in the same seat. We pair permanent family capital with hands-on operating experience, so the founders we back never feel alone in the hard moments.

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$120M+

Assets under management

30+

Transactions completed

20+

Years of experience

Aligned. Patient.
Built for Operators.

Our approach is grounded in years of building and running companies, not in a spreadsheet.

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01 Permanent capital with no fund-life clock forcing an exit

02 Operating partners who have built and run companies themselves

03 Fast, direct decisions from the people who actually sign

04 A relationship measured in decades, not quarters

How We Partner Across the Search Landscape

We meet operators wherever they are, from a first search to a second acquisition, with capital shaped around the plan.

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Search Funds

Traditional Search

We anchor searchers with committed capital, a real board, and operators on speed dial from the first LOI through the transition year.

Independent Sponsors

Deal by Deal

For sponsors with a proprietary deal and no fund behind them, we provide flexible equity and honest terms that keep incentives aligned.

Holding Companies

Long-Term Holdcos

We back founders building durable holding companies, patient about time horizon and disciplined about the businesses worth keeping forever.

Founder Recaps

Partial Liquidity

When a founder wants to take chips off the table without losing control, we structure recapitalizations that reward the work already done.

Buy and Build

Platform Growth

We support disciplined roll-ups where a strong first business becomes the platform for patient, tuck-in expansion over many years.

Northwind Ridgeline Partners Hale & Co Beacon Systems Fernway Oro Logistics Cobalt Labs

What Drives Us

We back the leaders who run the business, not just the businesses they run.

We aim to be the partner of choice for the next generation of operators.

We hold ourselves to plain-spoken integrity and full transparency, in every conversation.

Our Leadership Team

Marcus Hale

Managing Partner

Championing the growth and success of the next generation of acquisition entrepreneurs.

ETA journey: Acquired Meridian Packaging in 2011, scaled revenue from $8M to $60M before exit at 5.1x MOIC.
Operations: Oversaw sales, finance, and operations teams that grew headcount from 40 to 320.
Prior experience: Private equity associate at Griffin Partners; investment banking analyst at Morgan Reed.
Education: MBA, Wharton School (Finance and Entrepreneurial Management); B.A. Economics, USC.

Daniel Okafor

Board Director and Strategic Advisor

Transforming purpose and vision into enduring, resilient businesses.

Entrepreneurship: Founder and CEO of Verdano, a consumer brand sold in 25+ countries with $150M+ revenue and 200+ employees.
Investing: Co-founded Harbor Growth, a $100M+ fund backing disruptive founder-led brands across three continents.
Accolades: EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist (2018).
Advisory: Advisor and board member to 15+ early-stage and lower-middle-market companies.

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Let's Build Something Enduring