What is Everside?
Everside is shaking up the small business investment landscape with fresh perspectives. As a boutique investment firm, it offers flexible and innovative capital solutions exclusively to businesses in the U.S. lower middle market. The firm believes its approach connects all facets of the market, driving growth and aiming to deliver meaningful returns for a global investor base. Simply put, Everside is all about unlocking potential where others might overlook it.
The Main Benefits of Everside’s Approach
Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and Everside knows it well. Here are some key figures that highlight why this market matters so much:
- 99% of all U.S. businesses are small businesses
- Small businesses create 1.5 million jobs annually
- They are responsible for 55% of the jobs created in the last decade
- 62 million Americans work for small businesses, accounting for 44% of the U.S. GDP
- U.S. small businesses collectively represent a $12 trillion economy — the third largest GDP in the world
These numbers show just how critical small businesses are—not just for local communities, but for the entire economy.
Everside’s Specialized Strategies
Everside focuses on creating high-quality, diversified portfolios of small business investments. Drawing on extensive experience and strong relationships with investors, specialized funds, and companies, the firm offers three main strategies:
- Primaries Private Fund Solutions: Combining deep due diligence with strategic investments to empower emerging managers and add value in the small business sector.
- Secondaries Liquidity Solutions: Providing transparent, efficient access to liquidity through expertise in secondary transactions and GP-led continuation vehicles.
- Directs Flexible Capital: Investing directly in operating businesses to support growth initiatives, M&A, management buyouts, and generational transfers with credit and equity expertise.
Why Small Businesses Are Often Overlooked
Despite their importance, small businesses tend to fly under the radar for many investors. Often family-owned or entrepreneurially run, these companies have terrific alignment with their managers but remain underserved and difficult to access. Everside sees this as a huge opportunity—because these businesses are stable, crisis-proof, and deeply rooted in their communities. They thrive across generations thanks to conservative leverage and M&A approaches, plus having “skin in the game.”
The Unique Platform Everside Offers
Everside’s platform is a valuable resource in the lower middle market, connecting investors, partner funds, and independent companies in a way that drives growth and profitability. Here’s how:
- Investors: Access to a large, diversified market aiming for debt-like risk with equity-like returns and downside protection.
- Partner Funds: Anchor or seed capital, operational support, and exclusive deal flow from Everside’s extensive network.
- Independent Companies: Flexible debt and structured equity solutions for growth during recapitalizations, acquisitions, liquidity events, or management buyouts.
Project Impact: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Linked to Everside
- Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8)
- Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure (SDG 9)
- Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
- Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17)
Core Values Driving Everside’s Success
At the heart of Everside’s mission are values that guide every decision and relationship:
- Teamwork
- Integrity
- Accountability
- Excellence
These principles ensure that Everside not only invests capital but also builds trust and fosters long-term partnerships that help small businesses thrive and grow.
