Performance starts with people

Pioneering a new approach to human capital–driven private equity
The Civaris Difference

Human capital is the investment thesis

We believe the people inside a company—not the spreadsheet—determine outcomes. By aligning incentives, optimizing talent, and driving disciplined growth, we help founders and management teams build businesses that endure.
About Civaris
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We only win if you win

Civaris was founded by partners who have built their careers the same way our founders do: by building companies, executing strategy, and creating value over multi-year horizons. We invest our own capital alongside every investment. Aligned ambition. Aligned risk. Aligned outcome.
OUR APPROACH

People are the engine

Growth stalls when talent, leadership, or organizational design becomes the bottleneck—and we know how to fix it. Civaris is a human capital–first investment platform, partnering side-by-side with founders and management teams in an effort to unlock performance, align incentives, and execute disciplined growth.
our strategy

Civaris is partnered with global authorities in human capital – from one of the top 50 leadership minds globally1 to scholars with over 136,000 academic citations2.

30+
years

of empirical human capital research3

61,000+
executives

in a statistically validated global database4

8 out
of 10

achieve top quartile business performance5

4.3x more
predictive

than unstructured interviews6
  1. Barry Conchie, Operating Partner, was ranked among Top 50 leadership thinkers in the world by Leadership Insights Magazine in 2012.
  2. Ron Burt, Operating Partner. Per Google Scholar as of March 6, 2026. 136,754 citations.
  3. Both Barry Conchie and Ron Burt, Operating Partners, bring 30+ years of independent experience in human capital research
  4. Conchie Associates proprietary executive database, via Barry Conchie, Operating Partner. Conchie Associates, 2026.
  5. Among candidates scoring at the 75th percentile or above on the Conchie Associates Executive Leadership Assessment (“ELA”), approximately 8 out of 10 are subsequently classified as top-quartile performance across growth, margin, and employee engagement related metrics. Source: Conchie Associates proprietary validation research. Results may not be representative of all assessments or future outcomes.
  6. Based on Conchie Associates proprietary validation research compared to observed validity of r = 0.18 for unstructured interviews in primary studies (McDaniel et al., 1994). Results may not be representative of all assessments or future outcomes
What defines Civaris

A long-term partner built for execution

We don’t guess—we measure and develop performance. We apply data, discipline, and real operating experience to unlock performance where it actually lives: inside the organization.
We don’t guess—we measure and develop performance. We apply data, discipline, and real operating experience to unlock performance where it actually lives: inside the organization.
Specialists, not tourists
Human capital isn’t a cog in the machine—it’s our core engine for value creation.
Founder-driven, skin in the game
We’ve built our reputations the same way our founders have: by building companies, executing strategy, and creating value. We invest personal capital alongside every partnership. Aligned ambition. Aligned risk. Aligned outcome.
Side-by-side execution
We augment teams without running the business.
We orchestrate. Teams perform.
Long-horizon value creation
Our mission is to build and exit companies over multi-year timelines—focused on enduring performance, not quarterly optics.