Sure, some of you will have “heroic” missions like bringing affordable financial solutions to the underbanked or rooting out forced labor in supply chains around the world. But we think it can also be heroic to provide everyday products and services in a sustainable way while honoring the needs and interests of all of your company’s stakeholders, including customers, employees, vendors, local communities, the environment, as well as investors. Selling groceries may not sound inspiring on the surface, but look at what Whole Foods has been able to accomplish in that “simple” business.

We love the millions of “small by design” businesses who look to provide high-touch products and services that don’t necessarily scale well, and we’re very interested in companies that provide products and services to these Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs). But our mission is to come alongside entrepreneurs focused on building scalable solutions for significant problems that by their nature will need to be solved “at scale.”  It’s not about “growth for growth’s sake,” but always about “growth because we can’t rest until we have accomplished our mission for all the customers who need our solution.”

The word "sustainability" means more to you than just "environmentally friendly." You are building sustainability into every aspect of your company, including sustainability of products and services, sustainability of your management team and workforce, sustainability of your supply chain, and especially sustainability of your finances. Maintaining alignment with external equity investors can be a challenge under the best of circumstances, so you likely prefer growth through bootstrapping, customer funding, and more importantly profitability. When you do consider outside equity funding, you seek out values-aligned investors with a long-term perspective, even up to providing permanent capital.

You company is based in the US and operating in one or more of the following sectors: