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One Platform. Three Strategies. Built Around Your Mandate.

We aim to build around your objective rather than a fixed product list. All three strategies run on one platform — shared technology, shared data and one investment team.

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Start With Your Mandate

If you’d like to see how we might add value to your portfolio, give us one minute. Our solutions come in a range of structures — with different forms of liquidity, tax treatment, diversification, capital utilization, cash yield and total return — and these four answers help us point you to the right ones.

What type of investor are you?
Family office
RIA or wealth advisor
Insurance company
Pension, endowment or foundation
Consultant or advisor
Other institution
Where are you based?
United States
Canada
Latin America
Europe
Middle East
Asia-Pacific
Which strategies interest you? Select any
Private Credit
Private Equity
Secondaries
Multi-Strategy
What matters most to you?
Capital protection
Cash yield
Total return
Tax-advantaged returns
Liquidity
Diversification
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Who We Serve

Four Kinds of Investor, One Platform

Each brings a different mandate, a different governance process and a different set of constraints. Select yours.

Family Offices
RIAs & Wealth Platforms
Insurance Companies
Other Institutions

Family offices are where we started, and we are one ourselves. You can invest in our strategies, co-invest with us deal by deal, sell us private positions you already hold, or bring us a company your family is invested in. We put our own money in alongside yours.

Four Ways to Work With Us

Invest in Our Strategies

Exposure across private credit, private equity and secondaries, or a Fund of One built to your mandate.

  • Commingled, evergreen and custom structures
  • Your governance, your reporting

Co-Invest Alongside Us

Access to individual companies through debt and equity, deal by deal, from the same pipeline our strategies invest behind.

  • No obligation to participate
  • Includes QSBS-eligible investments

Receive Early Liquidity

Need cash out of private market investments or funds you already hold? We buy those positions — discreetly, and without waiting for the fund to wind down.

  • Fund interests and direct positions
  • A quiet, reliable counterparty

Customized Strategic Capital for Businesses You’re Invested In

For companies your family owns or backs — recapitalizations, growth capital, succession or a sale.

  • Keep control or step back
  • Continuity for management and employees
How We’re Invested Alongside You

Our Capital in Every Strategy

The firm and its team invest alongside our partners, with exposure to the same outcomes.

100% Employee-Owned ¹

No outside shareholder or parent company. The people making decisions own the firm.

Carried Interest Shared Firm-Wide

100% of U.S. full-time employees share in the carried interest — the whole firm works toward the same returns.

Other Ways to Engage With Us

Come to Our Events

Annual meetings, CEO summits and family office gatherings. Meet our investment team, hear from the people running these companies, and spend time with other families.

Use Our Network

We can introduce you to business owners, founders and operating partners across 40+ industries — people who have built and sold companies in the markets we invest in.

Read Our Research

White papers on both running a company in this market and investing in one.

Most advisors want this asset class for their clients but not the paperwork that comes with it. We handle the structures, the reporting and the client conversations, so you can offer it without building the machinery yourself.

What We Provide

Practice-Ready Structures

Access vehicles designed for advisory workflows, including qualified purchaser and accredited investor structures with appropriate subscription and reporting mechanics.

Education and Client Support

Materials, briefings and direct access to our investment team to help advisors explain this market to clients and committees with confidence.

Dedicated Coverage

A named team for the relationship, with field support for advisors rather than a single point of contact at the home office.

Other Ways to Engage With Us

Come to Our Events

Annual meetings, CEO summits and advisor briefings. Meet our investment team, hear from the people running these companies, and spend time with other advisors in this market.

Use Our Network

We can introduce you to business owners, founders and operating partners across 40+ industries — people who have built and sold companies in the markets we invest in.

Read Our Research

White papers on both running a company in this market and investing in one.

Book yield, capital efficiency and asset-liability matching, all under a regulatory and rating-agency lens. Senior secured lower middle-market credit fits that mandate — provided the structure is built around your constraints.

Why This Asset Class Suits a General Account

Senior Secured Book Yield

Predominantly first lien senior secured, floating-rate exposure with conservative entry leverage and maintenance covenants tested quarterly.

Spread Over Public Credit

An illiquidity and complexity premium in a market structurally underserved by banks and larger credit funds.

Diversification

40+ industries and hundreds of borrowers nationwide, with returns driven by company-level performance rather than public market beta.

Duration Control

Mandates structured to your liability profile, including custom pacing and distribution mechanics.

Insurance-Dedicated Formats

Rated Note Feeders

Structures designed with capital treatment and rating agency methodology in mind, built alongside your own advisors.

Separate Accounts

A dedicated mandate under your investment guidelines, governance and reporting requirements.

Cash-Flow Matched Mandates

Pacing, drawdown and distribution mechanics shaped around liability timing rather than a standard fund schedule.

Capital treatment depends on your domicile, structure and rating agency methodology. Nothing here is regulatory, accounting, actuarial or tax advice. Your own advisors should evaluate any structure against your specific requirements.

This is a large market with few institutional lenders and buyers in it. Returns come from how the underlying companies perform, not from where public markets trade. We report at the level your board and consultants expect, and we aim to build mandates around your process.

Built for an Institutional Process

Low Public-Market Correlation

Returns driven by the operating performance of small private companies rather than by public market multiples.

Governance-Ready Reporting

Board- and committee-level reporting, quarterly third-party valuations and LP advisory committee participation.

Separate Accounts at Scale

Dedicated mandates under your own investment guidelines, pacing and reporting requirements.

Consultant Engagement

We work directly with investment consultants through diligence, on-site reviews and ongoing monitoring.

Why Star Mountain

A Differentiated Manager

Underserved Market

Less competition and attractive entry multiples in the LMM.

One of the Largest Teams in the Lower Middle-Market

~150 dedicated professionals, supported by 40+ senior advisors and operating partners. ²

Alignment

100% employee-owned with meaningful co-investment. ¹

Technology Focus

AI & data platform compounding an information advantage.

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¹ Employee ownership includes employee estate planning vehicles.

² Team count is as of 9/30/26. It is inclusive of a 27-person team in India for database management, research and administrative tasks.