Ventura, CaliforniaEst. 2018
DMJ
Ventures
A private holding company. We acquire and operate businesses for the long term — from Ventura, not from a slide.
Established
2018
Home
Ventura, CA
Companies
5
Capital
Permanent
The firm
We buy businesses we would be proud to own for twenty years.
DMJ Ventures is not a fund with a nicer name. There is no outside clock, no quarterly letter to strangers, no exit committee waiting on year seven.
Based in Ventura, California, the firm owns a concentrated group of operating companies in real estate, agriculture, marine services, hospitality, and light industrial. We close few deals. We stay for the work that follows.
How the firm is ledApproach
Four constraints we will not trade away.
- 01
Permanent capital
There is no fund life. No LP clock. We buy companies to own them, and we measure the work in decades.
- 02
Operator’s diligence
We underwrite the work, not the story. If we cannot picture the Tuesday morning, we do not close.
- 03
Concentration
Five companies, known well. We would rather miss a deal than collect logos.
- 04
Local gravity
Ventura is headquarters, not a mailing address. Living here is the constraint that keeps the work honest.
Headquarters
Ventura is not a backdrop.
The Pacific, the harbor, and the county’s working land are the reason the portfolio looks the way it does. We live here. We underwrite here. Correspondence is answered here.
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