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We buy and build mission-critical businesses with a perpetual time horizon

Bristlecone Companies partners with entrepreneurs who care deeply about their teams, customers, and legacy. We provide a permanent home for enduring businesses in niche markets and empower them to realize their full potential.

Forever Mindset

We operate on a time horizon measured in decades, serving as a permanent home for your team and customers. Our family capital base eliminates institutional pressure to favor short term outcomes at the expense of long-term sustainability and sell quality companies.

Retain Independence

We empower people and organizations to reach their full potential by protecting and cultivating entrepreneurialism. Decisions should be made by the people closest to customers, so we operate with a decentralized model in which each business maintains its independence.

Hands-On Support

We build businesses brick-by-brick with an appreciation that small actions matter when done consistently over time. Though each company has autonomy, we offer hands-on support with strategic growth, talent development and retention, and scaling systems and processes.

We share your entrepreneurial roots and know that it takes time to build something meaningful. And everything meaningful starts with people.

  • We invest in your existing team and are committed to fostering a remarkable workplace

  • We trust our leaders and empower each to take ownership of their domain

  • We offer hands-on support to attract, develop, and retain the best talent

  • We maintain exceptionally high standards for customer service and prioritize retention

  • We lead with authenticity, transparency, and humility, and hold our reputations dear

  • We care deeply about what we do and who we do it with

The businesses in the Bristlecone grove tend to share a similar profile:

  • Consistent profitability with at least $1 million of recurring revenue

  • Exceptional customer relationships characterized by high retention

  • Engaged and committed team with unwavering character

  • Mission-critical with durable market leadership in respective niche or geography

It's not uncommon for us to build relationships for years before partnering, so, wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to hear from you!

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Our Team

We are a small team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors oriented around the long-term. We know what it’s like to run and grow a business because we’ve done it.

Behind the Bristlecone name

With a lifespan of over 5,000 years, the Bristlecone pine has outlived entire civilizations. We aspire to match this iconic tree in its durability, longevity, and stability. From our vantage, it exemplifies the core pillars of success. Strong roots. The ability to weather adversity. Continued growth.

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