Private Equity with Purpose

The Builders Fund is a growth-stage private equity fund investing with an impact lens in the intersection of purpose-driven brands and the disruption, and opportunity, created by the need to solve large social and environmental challenges. The firm partners with established, high-growth North American-based companies with revenues between $20-100m, whose fundamental business models create positive social/environmental benefit. Core themes of focus include sustainable food & agriculture, health/wellness, climate solutions/resource efficiency and human elevation/social justice. Over thirty of Builders' founding Limited Partners are former operators & entrepreneurs: “Builders”, committed to serving as operating partners to the fund and to supporting the entrepreneurs and leaders who are building businesses that improve the world.

Our vision is to help solve environmental and social problems through the profitable deployment of capital into conscious businesses. We believe the future of capitalism is a more integrated, human-centered and systemically-responsible approach to investing and company building. We envision a sustainable financial system which values not only financial, but financial, human, and natural capital in balance.

We partner with accomplished, entrepreneurial management teams to build companies with authentic, mission-driven cultures where people want to work and values-driven brands that consumers what to associate with. When we succeed, we create extraordinary financial, social and environmental value for our companies, their employees, investors, and the communities and customers they touch.

Capitalism must be part of the solution if we are to fix the significant and intractable social and environmental challenges we face today. For that to occur, we must get back to investing in and building scalable and purpose-driven businesses which improve the world. To that end, we seek to partner with management teams in North American-based, consumer-driven companies around themes of sustainable food & agriculture, health / wellness, human elevation & resource efficiency.