Building a Great Business for the Long Term
A trusted partner for founders seeking continuity, stewardship, and a thoughtful transition for your business.
Our Mission
Who We Are
We are Danielle and Emily, two sisters who grew up in rural small-town New Mexico who are looking to acquire and operate a great business and grow it for decades.
Our Approach
We understand that your business represents a lifetime of dedication and hard work. We will work alongside you to preserve what makes your business special over the long-term.
Our Purpose
We are committed to bringing capital back to the Southwest by investing in the communities where we grew up. We value relationships and transparency, and trust.
Raised by small-town rural New Mexican values, we grew up in a culture defined by resilience, sacrifice, and deep personal relationships. Lifelong New Mexicans who helped Farmington High win 7 state tennis championships, our goal is to bring world-class stewardship, operational discipline, and patient capital back to the region that raised us.
As first-generation Vietnamese Americans, grit has been instilled in us from a young age. We have watched our parents, Vietnamese immigrants and each the youngest of 8 children, work tirelessly to build a small family business and provide a life for us, teaching us the belief that family businesses can be extraordinary engines of opportunity. That is why we want to find a family-owned business in the Southwest that we can help steward for the next generation.
Founders
Danielle Nguyen
Founder and CEODanielle has experience advising Fortune 500 companies at Boston Consulting Group and Ernst & Young’s Technology Practice in New York City. Danielle also spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and worked for New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich in Washington, D.C.
Danielle holds a BS, MS, and MBA from Stanford University, where she double-majored in Statistics and German, invested in global early-stage startups on the Impact Fund, and served as Student Body President.
After graduating from her MBA, Danielle worked for BK Growth Partners in New York City as well as TTCER Partners.
In her spare time, you can find Danielle playing tennis, teaching yoga, or training for her next Ironman.
Founder and CEOEmily Nguyen
Emily worked for New Mexico Senator Tom Udall and completed a one-year Fulbright Fellowship in Denmark in reusable architecture before joining McKinsey’s private equity practice. There, she specialized in healthcare and TLI (travel, logistics, and infrastructure), where she served clients in aircraft maintenance, air parcel demand and capacity management, freight forwarding, construction rental equipment, and ophthalmology/optometry.
Emily earned her BS in Mathematics and Architecture at Harvard. At Harvard, Emily was president of the Harvard New Mexico club and now serves as a Harvard Alumni Interview chair for New Mexico.
In her spare time, you can find Emily trying a new baking recipe, knitting another sweater, or training for her next race.
Our Team
We are backed by a diverse, world-class team of entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, and operators who bring decades of deep functional expertise.
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Lucas Braun
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Will Bressman
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Dennis Lally
CEO, ABOUND HEALTH
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Nick Mansour
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Ian McKinnon
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Steve Neptune
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Brandon Parker
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Cameron Parker
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Sara Rosenthal
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Jenna Whigham
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Contact Us
Interested in working together? We would love to hear from you!