1955 Capital aims to build a high-return model for world-positive investing:
Target sectors that can address the world’s greatest challenges. Identify ways for breakthrough tech to address a survival-driven need before others do. Uninvested categories or underappreciated companies have highest risk-return potential. Don’t follow the herd, others should follow you.
Craft investment thesis, criteria & DD based on prior experiences. Learn from prior successes/failures to determine how 1955 can add value. Find areas where 1955 has comparative advantage over other investors. Find arbitrage opportunities that others miss.
Commit to assist where needed in developing portfolio companies’ businesses. Don’t overinvest; too many companies make it difficult to support CEOs. Suggest provocative ideas that can be transformative for CEOs to consider. Earn the trust of entrepreneurs and right to advise our CEOs.
Assemble a team based on long-term relationships. Trust among diverse & inclusive partners can survive the rigors of building a new firm. Bring together complementary capabilities that support 1955’s mission. Leverage extended network that can be valuable to 1955’s portfolio companies.