Our approach pairs a constrained focus on our subject-matter expertise with freedom in how we deploy and trade against it.
We invest primarily in the financial domain, defined by its functions rather than its institutional forms: the movement, storage, pricing, and allocation of value, and the management of risk. Institutions come and go; the functions persist, and every major innovation trend clears through them.
We pursue opportunities mainly in three areas and their numerous adjacencies: banking, capital markets, and asset and wealth management. These are today's institutional groupings of those functions, and the vocabulary through which the market recognizes us.
We make mostly minority, growth-oriented investments in next-generation financial services and technologies. We originate from our proprietary network of founders and investors, then underwrite and execute directly.
We invest in companies run by founders, management teams, and boards who are deep systems thinkers obsessed with attaining new efficiency frontiers. That means engineering sustainable growth motions while running highly optimized operations.
We are stage-agnostic with a preference for established businesses. The portfolio is built as a liquidity ladder: mid-stage positions further from a liquidity outcome, paired with late-stage positions likely to pay off in the near term.
We are structure-agnostic, deploying through primary growth equity, structured equity, or position building through secondaries. Direct origination and sector depth let us move at speed, with underwriting discipline intact.
We are an active manager. We are equally likely to be long-term holders as we are to trade out of a position when liquidity presents itself to return a multiple on capital to our investors.