Circumference Group

Circumference Group is an investment firm founded in 2009, aiming to deliver superior risk-adjusted performance for its capital partners. The firm leverages the broad and deep operational experience of its team to thoroughly understand a target investment’s current competitiveness and performance, identifying pathways to significant value creation with mitigated risk. Circumference Group invests when its organizational insight, operational intelligence, and strategic perspective identify opportunities for value creation.

The firm employs its proprietary Core Value Assessment (CVA) framework across all its investment strategies, which include public equity, private equity, and early-stage investing. In private equity, Circumference Group partners with like-minded owner-operators in customized minority or majority transactions, focusing on sectors such as technology-enabled services, marketing technology and services, web presence solutions, fintech and payments, telecommunications infrastructure and services, and BPO/other business services. In early-stage investing, the firm formed CG Ventures to leverage its team's strategic and operational strengths combined with the CVA framework, primarily focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage companies.

Circumference Group's team comprises highly experienced operators, investors, and technologists with a proven track record of business success and superior investment performance over a long-term horizon. The firm's leadership includes Jeff Fox, CEO and founder, who has served in multiple leadership roles, and Karsten Lampka, Partner of Private Equity Investments, who brings over 25 years of investment banking and private equity experience. The firm also offers strategic and operational advisory services to co-investment partners, private portfolio companies, and other third parties, complementing its direct investment activities.