We partner with founders and families of exceptional hospitality, restaurant, and consumer services businesses at the moment of generational transition and help them scale without losing what made them special.
The next decade belongs to businesses that bring people together.
Technology is reshaping how we work, live, and spend our time. Yet businesses built around meaningful real-world experiences remain valuable and enduring; difficult to replicate digitally, strengthened by customer loyalty, and positioned to compound.
At the same time, many exceptional founder- and family-owned businesses are entering a period of generational transition. Their next chapter requires a partner who can preserve the culture, authenticity, and trust that made them successful while providing the capabilities needed to grow.
Generational Growth Partners was built for this moment. We combine the rigor of leading investment firms with the flexibility, attention, and alignment of a true partner to exceptional smaller businesses.
Every partnership is different, but what we bring to each one is the same.
We partner with founders and families through defining transition moments. Every partnership is bespoke, based on your goals, your timeline, and the legacy you want to protect.
We bring the pattern recognition, discipline, and value creation approach developed at Bain Capital Private Equity and Boston Consulting Group to a part of the market that rarely has access to it — delivered person to person, without the bureaucracy of a large fund.
We focus exclusively on hospitality, restaurants, and consumer services. We understand unit economics, whitespace growth, differentiated customer value propositions, real estate, and most importantly the culture that makes these businesses work.
We invest meaningful personal capital alongside our founders. We are building one firm, one founder partnership at a time, around trust, transparency, collaboration, and shared ambition. You will be our priority.
Travel, leisure, hospitality concepts, member clubs, experience management, and adjacent business models.
Emerging concepts, franchisors, franchisee platforms, and adjacent food-service business models.
Fitness concepts, sports platforms, membership businesses, franchisors, franchisees, and adjacent services.
Select sub-sectors with strong demand, unit economics, barriers to entry and scaling opportunities (e.g., education, home services, auto services).
Above-market returns driven by a differentiated model.
A clear reason to win, with strong customer fit and loyalty.
Fragmented markets poised for professionalization.
An inflection point involving growth, liquidity, succession, or generational transition.
Alignment around people, culture, ambition, and what should never change.
Situations where our experience and capabilities can meaningfully accelerate the company’s potential.
We help exceptional founders and families scale enduring businesses without losing what made them special. Founders choose the role that fits: continuing to lead the business, staying involved at the board level, or transitioning fully with confidence in the stewards of what they built.
We prefer majority partnerships where founders and families retain meaningful upside, and we structure each around the people, culture, and communities at the center of the business.
Executive selection and incentives, governance that fits the business, and next-generation leadership planning.
New unit development, market prioritization, brand building, and strategic M&A, drawn from experience scaling national consumer and hospitality platforms.
Data, customer insight and discipline that strengthen fundamentals, capitalizing on a unique moment to bring institutional grade, AI-enabled value creation directly to founder-led businesses.
Senior investors, portfolio CEOs, and founder-operators who extend our sourcing, underwriting, and brand-building reach.
mark@generationalgrowthpartners.com · New York, New York
