World-class people in front. Relentless engineering behind.
Wells Onyx builds and backs a family of companies, each with its own brand and its own leadership. We provide the capital, the governance, and the shared backbone underneath them all, so every operator can do the work only they can do.
Operators run the companies. We run the backbone.
Every company in the group is its own business, with its own brand, its own leader, and its own website. Wells Onyx sits underneath, providing the things every company needs but none should have to build from scratch.
Capital & Governance
Funding, board discipline, and the standards that protect every company in the group.
Finance & Payroll
Accounting, payroll, and treasury run centrally so operators never touch the back office.
Legal & Compliance
Counsel and quality oversight held at the center, where it belongs.
People & Talent
Recruiting and the founding-hire posture that finds world-class operators for each seat.
Data & Technology
WellsAI, the shared engineering and intelligence layer that makes every company faster.
Delivery & Operations
Shared operating muscle so a new company can stand up without rebuilding the wheel.
We start with relationships. If we would gladly share a meal as friends, the business tends to take care of itself.
One company at the center. A constellation orbiting it.
Wells Onyx is the fixed point. Around it sits a constellation of twelve companies: two launched and generating today, the rest in active build, and one held in stealth.
Search & Strategy
The constellation turns. Rest on it to pause. Choose a company to meet it.
Search & Strategy
LaunchedRetained executive search and strategic advisory, and the twenty-year heritage this whole company grew out of. The connective tissue that places world-class leaders across the group.
Vanta Health Group
LaunchedIndependent review, medical and utilization review, and dispute resolution for the self-funded health market, engineered for speed and built to hold up under scrutiny. Home to our Total Rewards benefits practice.
WellsAI
BuildingThe shared engineering and intelligence layer of the group. The system that lets a small team do the work of a large one, across every company.
Onyx Energy & Infrastructure
BuildingLeadership and development across energy and infrastructure.
Grain & Vault
BuildingFintech and digital-asset infrastructure for a modern treasury.
Onyx Semiconductor & Hardware
BuildingAdvanced compute hardware, robotics, and the talent that builds them.
SchoolOS
BuildingAn operating platform for schools, and leadership for education.
Mainstreet & Manufacturing
BuildingManufacturing turnaround and skilled trades, with mission-driven hiring at the core.
Gaming, Entertainment & Sports
BuildingTalent and ventures across gaming, entertainment, and sport.
Venture & Long Term Partnerships
BuildingPatient capital and partnerships built for the long horizon.
Plastics Up, Energy & Agriculture
BuildingVentures across materials, energy, and agriculture.
The twelfth company
StealthHeld quiet by design. There is a twelfth company in the constellation. We will say more when the time is right.
Built to endure, and to be handed on.
Wells Onyx is led by its Co-Chairs and a shared senior team that serves every company in the group. Operators own execution. Standards, compliance, and capital discipline are held at the center.
The whole model is designed so each company can eventually outgrow its founder. That is not a risk to manage away. It is the point.
These are founding seats, not staff seats.
We hire people who want to build a company, not hold a title. If you are the kind of leader who is energized by white space, and who wants world-class engineering behind you rather than in your way, we should talk.
We are not chasing what shines for a moment. We are building what will shine for generations.
Let us build something that lasts.
Our philosophy
Every placement, every operator, and every partnership is a point of light that adds up to something greater and lasting.
Our aim is to build architectures of trust, leadership, and purpose that endure well beyond any trend.