Our vision is to be part of the world's best founders' visions. Plain and simple.
We have the same vision for founders as we have for investors, because money follows great deals, and great deals are made with great founders.
A lot of investors ask how to get great founders. This is a relationship business with a partnership model. We earn that place by delivering value according to our CORE Guiding Principles — because caring about the fundamentals, and actually understanding them, is what lets us say to founders "I get you," and then actually know how to unblock them.
We take care of people. The founders we back care about the problem and how to solve it, and they have a vision to change the world. We stay close on the hard parts — team, product-market fit, the next round — from pre-seed to pre-IPO, not just at the milestones.
We back founders who grab the bull by the horns, and we align stakeholders around their vision to change the world — because the incentives should align with the founder's vision, not against it.
We invest in and build companies that try to do the right things for the right reasons.
We go where the need is greatest — representing underrepresented, contrarian founders who have already gone there in their vision.