Matters Capital

Michael Matters serves as Founder and CEO, setting overall strategy. Managing Director David Matters leads the private credit portfolio. The family retains final approval on all direct investments exceeding $10 million, per the firm's governance documents.

The office sources directly through relationships with middle-market investment banks and regional sponsors, as well as through a co-investment network that includes Ares Management and CIM Group. The firm also receives proprietary deal flow from the operating company's supply chain.

It operates as a single-family office with a permanent capital base derived from the Matters family's industrial manufacturing holdings. Unlike a venture firm, it does not raise external capital and focuses on control-oriented and credit investments rather than early-stage equity.

The firm uses both approaches. It has made limited partner commitments to middle-market private equity funds including those managed by Ares Management, while also executing direct investments in real estate and private credit where it takes control or senior secured positions.

The office targets middle-market companies with EBITDA between $10-50 million, and real estate assets of $5-50 million. It will make control-equity investments, minority growth equity, and senior secured loans, but avoids early-stage venture and public securities.

The firm avoids early-stage technology, biotech, and venture capital. It also excludes direct investments in emerging markets outside Western Europe and the US, per its investment policy.

The wealth originates from the Matters family's controlling stake in a US industrial manufacturing conglomerate founded by the previous generation. The family built the business over several decades before transferring a portion of equity to the family office in 2015.