Mikos Interests

Chris Mikos is the founder and primary decision-maker. He previously served as a senior acquisitions executive at Crow Holdings, where he helped manage the Trammell Crow family's diversified real estate portfolio across multiple property types and market cycles. His investment committee structure at Mikos Interests is lean — typical of a single-principal family-style office — rather than a multi-tiered institutional process.

Mikos Interests targets control and significant minority investments in proven lower-middle-market companies, not venture-stage startups. The firm favors businesses with established cash flows, tangible asset bases, and clear paths to operational improvement rather than pure growth equity or early-stage technology risk. Typical target companies generate between $3 million and $15 million of EBITDA, a range suited to the firm's concentrated capital deployment approach.

Chris Mikos spent over 20 years underwriting physical assets at Crow Holdings, which trained him to evaluate businesses through the lens of collateral value, replacement cost, and location-specific competitive moats. This manifests at Mikos Interests in a preference for companies where a hard-asset backbone — real estate, equipment, fleet, or inventory — provides downside protection, and where operational skill can unlock yield improvement on top of asset appreciation.

Sourcing relies on a tight network cultivated over decades in Dallas commercial real estate and private capital circles — including regional investment banks, commercial brokers, family-office peers, and operating executives who previously worked alongside Mikos at Crow Holdings. The firm does not run a wide-auction process; it pursues bilateral, relationship-sourced transactions where it can serve as the natural consolidator or succession-plan partner for owner-operators.