Strategies
Our Approach
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Open-Minded
Our investment theses are continuously developing and we are open to creative fundraising opportunities that make sense for all involved.
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No Nonsense
With a small and nimble team, our decision-making is efficient and without bureaucracy. Deal directly with the principals.
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Strong Networks
Our investment networks are strong, and we are prudent stewards of our group investments via our SPV structure.
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Stay in our lane
We understand our role as investors and will flex-up support and guidance as management desires. We don’t get in the way; we facilitate where we're going.
E-Commerce Enablement
Identifying platforms that serve e-commerce entrepreneurs and focus on enabling these fast-growing operations to prudently expand and maximize efficiencies. Focusing on post-revenue investments that are later-stage and pre-IPO financing rounds, to target the crescendo moment as the platform begins to achieve scale.
IDEAL INVESTMENT
• ARR: $1M to $20M
• Stage: product/market fit to approaching scale
• Homebase: U.S. or international
• Fundraising: Series A and B or token rounds / bridges between rounds
** We are open to investments that do not fit this profile and would welcome the opportunity to discuss specifics with you.
PORTFOLIO INCLUDES:
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Carbon6 is a leading software suite for the Amazon marketplace that simplifies success for online entrepreneurs.
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AMZ Scale / Scale Up is a new generation e-commerce platform that offers e-commerce entrepreneurs a wide range of services and tools to help them build and scale their businesses.
Platforms & Aggregators
Partnering with platforms approaching scale, leveraging momentum around technological know-how, sector acumen, and diversification of offerings to achieve “scale effect” in improved efficiencies and exponential growth potential.
IDEAL INVESTMENT
• ARR: $5M to $50M
• Stage: Approaching scale
• Homebase: U.S. or international
• Fundraising: Series A and B; or token rounds / bridges between rounds
** We are open to investments that do not fit this profile and would welcome the opportunity to discuss specifics with you.
PORTFOLIO INCLUDES:
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Cambrian Biopharma is a multi-asset biotech company called a Distributed Development Company (“DisCo”) creating a diversified portfolio of novel therapies, each with the potential to prevent age-related decline and disease, extending human healthspan. Working with top scientists at universities like Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Scripps, and others to translate scientific breakthroughs into new medicines.
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Kanaan was founded to leverage the opportunity gap for a “lean” aggregator focusing on smaller sellers, with the model to build and scale a bundle of brands while eliminating operational redundancy.
Digital Assets & Transformation
Empowering tech entrepreneurs serving real world asset sectors - including real estate, property management, construction, and banking - to deliver transformational enablement that change the game for those oft-outmoded industries. Focusing on venture and launch phase opportunities, to leverage existing networks and facilitate the drive to platform critical mass and approach to scale.
IDEAL INVESTMENT
• ARR: $250k to $20M
• Stage: minimum marketable product (< $1M ARR) to approaching scale
• Homebase: U.S.-based and EU-based primarily
• Fundraising: Seed; Series A; or token rounds / bridges between rounds
** We are open to investments that do not fit this profile and would welcome the opportunity to discuss specifics with you.
PORTFOLIO INCLUDES:
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Mesh enables your users to trade stocks and crypto or transfer crypto on platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase, and 300+ others without ever leaving the platform. Authenticate into banks, exchanges, and wallets without leaving the product for real-time data and trading capabilities.
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Exporo AG is a crowdfunding platform designed to provide retail investors access to attractive, fully underwritten real estate and renewable projects. The platform facilitates investments in real estate and renewable projects that were previously only accessible to institutional or professional investors, enabling retail investors and individuals to build their own digital portfolios with low minimum investments, attractive interest rates, and high transparency.
Signature Assets
Focusing on exclusive investments that represent unparalleled, one-of-a-kind opportunities. This strategy targets rare finds that do not conform to conventional categories but offer unique value and potential for significant impact. Signature Assets embodies our commitment to curating a selection of the most promising, unique, and irreplaceable investments, setting a new benchmark for exclusivity in the venture capital landscape.
PORTFOLIO INCLUDES:
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Venezia FC merges the worlds of high fashion and football, earning acclaim from Esquire magazine as "the most fashionable football club in the world." Through innovative partnerships and a keen eye for design, Venezia FC offers fans a distinctive blend of sport and style, making it a standout club that captivates both football enthusiasts and fashion aficionados globally.
Commercial Real Estate
Continuing an expansive track-record of successful commercial real estate investments, primarily in industrial and retail use cases, via a separate entity: KSA Realty LLC. Focusing primarily on single-tenant or large, anchor-tenant scenarios in greater Boston.