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Meaningful Partners

Meaningful Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Los Angeles, United States. It states a focus on consumer & retail.

Capital raised$330macross 4 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2024filing since 2019
HeadquartersLos Angeles, United States
Stated cheque size$15-75 Million

Stated investment criteria

What Meaningful Partners says it buys

Read from Meaningful Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Minimum revenue it states$20m1
Minimum EBITDA it states$5m1
People listed on its team page132

A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Meaningful Partners states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Meaningful Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Meaningful Partners has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed4
Total capital raised$330m
Largest single vehicle$152m
Filing history2019 to 2024
Smallest accepted commitment$150k
Filed fromCALIFORNIA

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Meaningful Partners is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusSEC registered
Regulatory assets under management$615m
Employees8
Private funds advised7 · $615m gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 306169

Valuation context

Transaction values in Consumer & Retail

What companies have actually sold for in consumer & retail, across 837 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$90m
Middle 50%$25m-$280m
Revenue multiple1.2×
EBITDA multiple8.05×

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