TBF Advisors

Our Services

The Boulder Field Advisors (“TBF Advisors”) offers a highly specialized suite of advisory services to:

  • Climbing gym developers and operators - current and prospective

  • Investors - current and prospective, including private equity firms, family offices, and individuals

Led by a team of highly experienced climbing gym developers and operators, with an acute understanding of how each element of a climbing gym project dynamically interacts with every other element to produce to produce either a crushing success or something less, TBF Advisors provides state-of-the-art advice on:

  • Site selection

  • Design

  • Feature selection

  • Development process

  • Vendor selection

  • Financial projections

  • Financing

  • Financial structuring

  • Branding

  • Marketing strategy and execution

  • Organizational structuring

  • Staffing

  • Operating policies and procedures 

  • Route setting policy and procedure

  • Safety

  • Operations

  • Special events

  • Competitions

  • Member growth and retention 

In addition, TBF Advisors provides institutional-quality investment and merger and acquisition advisory services to: 

  • Gym owners seeking to sell their climbing gym businesses to the best buyer, at the highest price, and on the best terms

  • Gym owners seeking to grow by acquisition

  • Investors seeking to acquire single- or multi-gym businesses

In this rapidly growing industry, with many nuances hidden to the inexperienced eye, precious time, money, and other resources can be wasted without the advice and counsel of highly seasoned and successful advisors. We invite you to call TBF Advisors to explore how we can help optimize your involvement as an investor in this exciting industry!

Our Principals

TBF Advisors is directed by two of the most experienced and successful business people in the climbing gym industry. 

Carlo Traversi, designer, developer, and co-owner of The Boulder Field, one of the largest and most successful climbing gyms in the U.S., for nearly 15 years one of the top all-around climbers in the world, and, for nearly as many, employee of or advisor to many of the top climbing gyms in the world, brings to TBF Advisors and its clients his extraordinarily unique, insightful, and valuable approach to the climbing industry. 

David Traversi, Carlo’s co-owner and -developer of The Boulder Field, brings to TBF Advisors over 30 years of institutional-quality expertise as an entrepreneur, investment banker, chief executive, investor, operator, and advisor.