A small firm with two jobs

Decide what to build. Sometimes we help pay for it.

We give technology teams a straight second opinion, and we put our own money into technology companies we have come to know well.

What we do

A second opinion on your technology

Bring us the plan, the vendor quote or the architecture diagram. We will tell you what holds up, what does not, and what we would do first.
Someone senior in the room

Ongoing, part-time technical judgement for teams that run their own systems and want a sounding board who is not selling anything.
A stake, not just advice

In some companies we invest and take an active part in how they are run, because hands-on experience is worth more than a signature on a cheque.

We stay inside the ground we can inspect ourselves.

Before any money moves we look at how the thing actually runs. The slides come second.

The people who advise you are the people who invest. When we say a system is sound, we have looked at it the way an owner would.

And when we back a company, we have already seen how its technology holds up under real use. There is no hand-off and no second story.

Send a note. There are no forms to fill in, and you will usually hear back within a working day.