We are founders. We are operators. We are borrowers. We are lenders. We are investors. But most importantly, we are sympathetic people who understand both the joys and challenges of operating a business.

In 2023, we sold our international-award winning company that we founded, operated, grew, and passionately poured our hearts into for more than a decade.

Along our journey, we learned first-hand the challenges the entrepreneur faces in charting his or her own path. And we learned that these challenges continue up to and including a sale, and in some ways, years thereafter.

In 2024, we set out to create an investment firm that we wish we would have encountered while growing our business and ultimately, when pondering our eventual exit.

Escena Investments is a firm founded in entrepreneurship, understanding, and values. We recognize that an owner’s business means far more than dollars and cents that flow to the bottom line; it is an extension of who we are as people and often times, reflects our individual identities.

When acquiring a company, we want to see your brand flourish. We want your employees to be even better off than when they worked under your sole care. We genuinely want your legacy to be upheld and fortified, not questioned nor diminished. Ultimately, we want you to be proud to have sold your company to us!

When investing alongside you, we want to help make your company better. We want to get in the trenches with you to see how we can best serve you. We very much want you to be proud to have partnered with us!

When providing a short-term loan, we want to do more than provide capital; we want to know how we can best support you and what introductions we can make to guide your path. And we want to be fair so that at some distant date when you have time to reflect on your company’s success, you will think that we played an important, friendly role along your journey.

And in all cases, we want you to connect with our relationships directly to access additional value, while also having a chance to learn from them who we are as people and as partners. We don’t want to hide these great people and references from you; we genuinely want them to connect with you!