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Ortho Vision
Larry Van Tuyl's Ortho Vision manages family capital from the 2015 sale of Van Tuyl Group to Berkshire Hathaway. Based in Los Angeles and Miami.
Ortho Vision
Ortho Vision was formed to steward the proceeds of the Van Tuyl family's five-decade automotive retail enterprise. Larry L. Van Tuyl, who alongside his father Cecil transformed a single Kansas City dealership into a platform with 78 locations and roughly $8 billion in annual revenue, sold the Van Tuyl Group to Berkshire Hathaway in March 2015 — creating Berkshire Hathaway Automotive — before establishing the family office to manage liquidity from that transaction. The firm invests across three distinct sleeves: direct operating businesses within the broader automotive ecosystem, income-producing commercial real estate assets concentrated in Sun Belt markets, and growth-stage venture and private equity commitments. Public record indicates activity in dealership-adjacent fintech, fleet logistics, and warranty-services platforms. The real estate book skews toward retail and industrial properties in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Co-investment vehicles appear to favor sponsor-backed middle-market deals where the family's operator lens can underwrite residual value in hard-asset or distribution-heavy business models. The dual-headquarters structure — primary operations in Los Angeles with a satellite presence in Miami — reflects both the family's Sun Belt footprint and the geographic distribution of its underlying investments. March 2015: Van Tuyl Group closed its sale to Berkshire Hathaway for a reported $4.1 billion in enterprise value (per Bloomberg, October 2014), a liquidity event that recast the family's capital base under the Ortho Vision banner. The firm has maintained a deliberately low public profile, with no dedicated website and limited institutional fundraising visibility. What sets Ortho Vision apart structurally is its operating-company parentage. Unlike single-family offices formed from liquid securities portfolios or fund-management carried interest, the Van Tuyl capital pool emerged from a founder-led consolidator that Berkshire Hathaway itself deemed operationally durable enough to absorb intact. That history shapes the office's preference for control-oriented, operator-informed deployment in sectors where physical asset knowledge or distribution-network fluency provides an underwriting edge that pure financial sponsors rarely replicate.
General information
Firm type
Single Family Office
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Los Angeles
Corporate office
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Additional offices
Miami, FL, United States
Principals
Larry L. Van Tuyl
Principal
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Ortho Vision?
Larry L. Van Tuyl, the former CEO and owner of Van Tuyl Group, functions as the principal investment decision-maker through Ortho Vision. He brings an operator's background — having consolidated 78 dealerships into the largest privately held automotive retail platform in the country — rather than an institutional investment pedigree. The office structure appears deliberately lean, consistent with a single-family office built around a founder-operator.
Where does the underlying wealth come from?
The Van Tuyl family fortune was built in automotive retail. Cecil Van Tuyl founded the business in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1955, and his son Larry expanded it through decades of acquisitions into the Van Tuyl Group — the largest privately owned dealership group in the U.S. with roughly $8 billion in annual revenue. Berkshire Hathaway acquired the company in March 2015 for a reported $4.1 billion in enterprise value (per Bloomberg, October 2014), creating Berkshire Hathaway Automotive and providing the liquidity base Ortho Vision manages today.
Is Ortho Vision structured as a single-family office or does it operate more like a venture firm?
Ortho Vision operates as a single-family office managing exclusively Van Tuyl family capital. It does not take outside investor commitments or function as a fund manager. The investment activity spans direct deals, co-investments alongside private equity sponsors, and real estate acquisitions, but all activity sits inside a proprietary family-office structure rather than a third-party asset-management platform.
What investment stages does Ortho Vision typically target?
Based on public record of Van Tuyl's post-exit activity, Ortho Vision targets a mix of growth-stage venture, middle-market private equity, and stabilized commercial real estate. Within the venture sleeve, the focus appears concentrated on companies with distribution-heavy business models where the family's automotive-retail operating experience provides a genuine diligence edge — fleet logistics, warranty technology, and dealer-services platforms — rather than pure-play software or early-stage seed rounds.
How is Ortho Vision related to Berkshire Hathaway's automotive unit?
Ortho Vision has no ongoing operational or ownership relationship with Berkshire Hathaway Automotive. When Berkshire acquired Van Tuyl Group in 2015, it bought the entire dealership platform and retained the Van Tuyl brand briefly before transitioning to the Berkshire Hathaway Automotive name. Larry Van Tuyl exited the dealership operating role as part of that sale and subsequently established Ortho Vision as a separate entity to manage his family's liquid capital.
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