Our Practice
To connect and encourage.
What We Do
Form aligned capital. Invest alongside trusted sponsors.
We form aligned capital and invest alongside a select group of sponsors we trust in energy, lower middle market buyout, venture, and other alternatives. Funds and direct deals.
We seek to serve our investor relationships by only sharing opportunities that align with the specific mandate and gating preferences we seek first to understand.
We are not a traditional placement agent. We do not promote. We do not pitch. We listen. We learn. We connect with conviction.
What We Believe
The rifle, not the shotgun.
Most investors are not right for most sponsors. Most sponsors are not right for most investors.
The capital raising industry treats introductions like a volume game. A shotgun approach where more activity equals more results.
We reject that model entirely.
We believe in the rifle approach. Fewer connections. More intentional. Grounded in genuine alignment between what an investor is seeking and what a builder is building.
When we get this right, both sides win. Not just on a single transaction — across a long-term relationship that compounds in value over time.
How We Operate
Beyond mandate and check size.
We seek to understand what truly drives each investor's decisions. What mission or values animate their investment philosophy. What their portfolio means to them beyond returns.
We apply the same rigor to our clients. We learn their investment thesis, their founder story, what kind of capital partner they truly need, and what makes them distinctive.
We know their story well enough to tell it as compellingly as they do.
Every introduction we make is grounded in specific, articulated points of alignment. We never connect for the sake of connecting.
Our Principles
Six commitments.
One-of-One Outbound
No mass mailers. Every touchpoint is bespoke.
Primacy of Trust
We prefer warm introductions and shared relational trust.
Listen-Out Meetings
We measure success by how much the investor talks.
Mutual Fit
We evaluate alignment as much as the investor does.
No Noise
We would rather miss a round than force a fit that wastes your time or erodes trust.
The Golden Rule
We do what we would want if the roles were reversed.
The Founder
My name is Trevor Hightower.
I founded HIGHTOWER because I believe there is a better way to form capital.
The best partnerships I have seen in my career were never the result of a louder pitch or a shinier deck. They were the result of genuine trust, built slowly, between people who shared real alignment beneath the surface.
That is what we are building. A firm that compounds trust day by day, week by week, year by year.
Not by being the biggest. By being the most trusted.
Very Sincerely,
Trevor Hightower
Founder & Managing Partner