Venture Capital

We believe venture investing is more than hitting 1 bullseye for every 99 misses. While we would love each of our investments to be a home run, we believe the most important thing is to preserve capital, which means investing prudently at appropriate valuations.

We deep-dive revenue and expense assumptions and understand that venture investing is fundamentally like any type of investing. However, you must place a greater focus on the effects of dilution over time, ensure founders are properly incentivized, and understand many exit scenarios prior to determining the valuation at the time of the initial investment.

We manifest our desire for growth and creativity in the founders and startups where we invest our time, energy, and resources. We advocate for the portfolio companies we work with, placing their best interest at the heart of our decisions. It is important that we are always direct, clear, and considerate when we give feedback.

We concentrate our efforts and resources on seed and early stage companies across all sectors, as we look for:

• founders and executives who are passionate, focused, and experienced

• concepts with large addressable markets

• ideas that are scalable and have clear paths to profitability

• products that excite, can make lives more enjoyable, or make the world a better place

• businesses that can establish formidable barriers to entry through strong IP or unparalled branding

• companies with an identifiable exit strategy