Our Purpose and Mission

Our mission is to help businesses succeed by providing the resources and support they need to grow, scale, and transition.

Chris Lausten, founder of Twelve31

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We are entrepreneurs first and foremost. We founded Twelve31 with the purpose of helping businesses succeed.

Chris Lausten

Founder, Twelve31, LLC

Entrepreneurs at Heart, Investors by Expertise

Twelve31 buys and runs small businesses. Our team includes operators, finance people and industry specialists who have built and grown companies of their own.

We have made payroll, managed cash through lean months, and led acquisitions and turnarounds. Some of us came from private equity and Wall Street. Others spent decades running businesses from the ground up.

We respect the work it takes to build a business customers trust. When we buy a company, we work alongside its leaders to tighten operations, invest in growth, and keep what already works.

We are in it for the long term.

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We hire operators who want real responsibility. If that sounds like you, send a note and a résumé.

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