MG Equity
MG Equity is the private investment office of Makan Mostafavi. Since 2020 it has acquired and operated companies across seven industries.
Transaction value$3B+
Transactions closed4,500+
Transacted as principal$200M+
Portfolio
- Divisions involved: Real estate · Media
Express car wash operator across Southern California.
Brake pad and friction component manufacturer.
Consumer electronics designer and manufacturer.
- Divisions involved: Media
Creative agency for video, photography, and live events.
Function P & CoResearch peptide manufacturer for laboratories, documented by batch.
- Btr Mood
E-commerce retailer of nootropic supplements.
- Divisions involved: Media021B Media
Media agency for production, publicity, podcasts, and live events.
- Divisions involved: Media
Online supplier of research-use-only peptides for laboratories and researchers.
- Redcar Equity
Ground-up and value-add real estate developer.
The MG Equity Advantage
Access to capital, his own and his partners’, ready at signing, plus:
- One decision-maker
- No investment committee.
- Deal-flow experience
- Broker, lender, and principal in Los Angeles since 1998; an operator across seven industries since 2020. Closed transactions
- Sales & marketing
- Direct mail, digital, and e-commerce funnels that already sell for the portfolio.
- Media & social
- Filming, publicity, podcasts, and social, in-house through 021B Media and Mood Studios.
- Real estate & build-out
- Site selection, development, and construction management from the real estate arm.
- Technology
- Platform and e-commerce build-out from the portfolio’s own technology operations.
- Finance
- Two decades in lending: the financing can be arranged as well as contributed.
Acquisition criteria
- Geography
- Nationwide
- Sectors
- Automotive · Consumer electronics · Tech & AI startups · Finance · Health & science · Media · Real estate · Manufacturing
- Transaction types
- Buyouts · Growth capital · Recapitalizations · Corporate divestitures · Seed
- Structure
- General partner and co-GP
- Typical hold
- Three to five years