No searcher should go it alone.
JWST Capital invests in searchers: entrepreneurs setting out to buy a company and lead it. We bring capital and an operator’s experience to the search, the deal and the years that follow.
Talk to us about your search
Since 2020
Investing in privately held companies
$1M+
Invested across startups, acquisitions & growth equity
How we help
Capital
Investment for searchers and the companies they buy, from a family-owned firm rather than a fund.
Operating experience
Nearly 17 years of building and running multi-unit businesses, including companies we bought and integrated ourselves.
Partnership
Someone in your corner from the search through the close and into the first years of ownership.
About
James Temple
Principal
James has spent nearly 17 years building and buying multi-unit businesses. He grew a Mathnasium franchise from a single center into one of the system’s largest portfolios, with 31 centers in seven states, and is building a portfolio of JETSET Pilates studios. He brings that experience, and the lessons that came with it, to every searcher JWST Capital backs.
Why an ampersand
Our mark is an ampersand because no searcher should go it alone. It began as et, Latin for “and,” and this Garamond italic still shows its roots in the E and the t. The seal around it is how promises were once made official.
JWST stands for
James&WilliamShockley-Temple