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How we invest

Capital
with a long
memory.

We treat venture investing as an act of cultural creation. What we make from our investing matters. What we make through it matters more.

Mission

What we are
trying to do.

Back founders and ventures whose work enables the flourishing of individuals, communities, and the natural world. Deploy capital and relationships in ways that align interests, restore what has been broken, and embody the long view.

Our desired outcome is not only quality financial returns, but a durable cultural contribution: companies that compound across decades, founders who stay whole, and capital that leaves more possibility behind it than it found.

Sunrise over a coastal harbour with a castle in silhouette

Three lenses

What, how,
and why a venture is built.

Three lenses shape how we evaluate every opportunity, and how we engage with founders post-investment.

Strategy

What is built

Products, services, programmes, brands, and experiences. Strategy is defined by its cultural impact: does it make culture more humane, truthful, and lasting, or does it leverage trends for extractive gain?

Operations

How it is built

Culture, systems, capital, business models, and partnerships. Operations are defined by how people are treated: with grace, generosity, justice, patience, and mutuality.

Leadership

Why it is built

Motives, ambition, worldview, character, and imagination. Leadership is defined by its success script: shaped by self-advancement, or by accountability, restraint, and generosity.

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If your work resonates,
we’d be glad to hear.

We read every introduction personally. Briefer is better.