OBNW*
Tech-forward private equity. Providing risk-capital and engineering resources for the AI-age.
Tenets
Prediction: In the coming decades, all companies will become tech companies.
Approach: An investment strategy that is unrestrained by traditional categories like PE and VC.
Formula: Ambitious founders + capital + access to engineering talent = maximal leverage.
About Us
We invest in existing businesses and transition them into tech companies.
We’ve been building AI-led businesses since 2017 and have been PE + tech investors since 2006.
We are day 1 investors working with founders to originate and seed buy + build cases.
Distributing the Future
Foundation models have made a dramatic entrance, but they are just the start. Now begins the work (and investment opportunity) of spreading this technology through the economy.
Major platforms take decades to come into productive and widespread use. Think of how long it took for the internet to reach its potential (the first email was sent in 1971).
Spreading these technologies through the economy will be challenging work. Business models need to be updated, new software systems deployed, and people will be re-trained. We are looking forward to the challenge; it will be rewarding in many ways.
*O Brave New World
Even though change can be disorienting, we disagree with the pessimists that fear new advances and foretell our global doom.
Instead, we are hopeful for our brave new world and technology’s role in it.
If you are too, let's work together.
“Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in 't!”
- The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1