Approach | Alluvium Equity

It must strengthen what already works.

We invest in enterprises with proven purpose and trust. Our role is to reinforce their foundation—adding capital, clarity, and capability to what already makes them essential.

It must endure the passage of time.

Enduring value comes from discipline and purpose. We seek businesses built to last, those whose relevance and integrity persist through markets, leadership changes, and generations.

It must leave the enterprise, and its people, better than before.

Progress is measured in strength gained: stronger teams, smarter systems, greater resilience. Every partnership should end with more capability and confidence than it began.

The Alluvium Difference

Before there was a firm, there was a conversation—unhurried, unguarded, and genuine. That conversation became a conviction: that capital could be quieter, steadier, and more human.

The difference at Alluvium is not found in structure, but in substance. We don’t acquire; we accompany. We don’t buy control; we build continuity. Our capital doesn’t speak loudly, but it never leaves the room.

Phil Gisi built an empire on the principle that care is not an expense—it’s an investment. That ethos shaped Edgewood, and now it shapes Alluvium. Through Landon Bahl’s stewardship, that philosophy continues forward as disciplined equity that behaves less like a fund and more like a family office with purpose.

We believe every company has a rhythm—its own current, its own quiet momentum. The art of investing is not to redirect that current, but to deepen it.

Our difference lies not in what we own, but in how we care.

Alluvium is capital as character. It is equity with empathy. It is the understanding that the future, like a river, remembers its source.

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Investment Strategy & Criteria

Alluvium invests in strength already proven. We look for companies with character, operators whose integrity is visible in the details, whose leadership understands that patience is not hesitation, and whose growth has always been earned, never engineered.

Our strategy is deliberate. We invest where founders stay, not where they leave. The goal is continuity: to preserve the culture that

built the success while adding the capital and counsel to sustain it.

We are drawn to industries that endure, and enterprises that form the backbone of the Midwest economy. These are not trends;

they are commitments. We favor companies whose purpose outlasts cycles, whose people stay through storms, and whose

products or services remain indispensable to the communities they serve.

Each investment must meet three quiet tests: