Industry Focus
Capital-Adaptive Builders
Ventures navigating public-private funding complexity, blending grants, contracts, and capital in service of ambitious goals.
Why This Matters
Some ventures don't fit neatly into traditional categories. You're building something ambitious—infrastructure, deep tech, civic innovation—that requires a sophisticated blend of funding sources: grants, government contracts, institutional capital, and strategic partnerships.
This is capital-adaptive building: the ability to pursue the right funding for each stage and component of your work, rather than forcing your vision into a single funding model. It requires strategic sophistication, operational discipline, and fluency across multiple funding ecosystems.
We partner with builders who understand that the most consequential work often requires creative capital strategies and the patience to navigate complex funding landscapes.
Our Approach
We help capital-adaptive builders design funding strategies and organizational systems that enable ambitious work across multiple capital sources.
Hybrid Capital Strategy
We help you design capital strategies that blend grants, contracts, equity, and strategic partnerships. The goal: fund your work without compromising your mission or losing control of your vision.
Public-Private Funding Navigation
From federal grants to government contracts to institutional funding, we help you navigate complex public funding mechanisms while maintaining the flexibility to pursue private capital when it makes sense.
Proposal & Positioning Strategy
Winning competitive funding requires more than technical competence. We help you develop proposal strategies, positioning narratives, and submission materials that translate your vision into fundable, credible opportunities.
Organizational Design for Funding Complexity
Managing multiple funding sources requires operational sophistication. We design the financial systems, governance structures, and internal processes that let you stay compliant while maintaining momentum.
Who We Serve
Deep Tech Ventures
Companies building transformative technology that requires patient capital, government support, and strategic partnerships to bring ambitious innovations to market.
Infrastructure Developers
Builders pursuing large-scale infrastructure projects that blend public funding, institutional capital, and long-term strategic partnerships across multiple stakeholders.
Mission-Driven Enterprises
Organizations pursuing ambitious social or environmental goals that require creative capital structures and the ability to navigate both public and private funding ecosystems.
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Let's design your capital strategy
Whether you're pursuing a major funding opportunity, blending multiple capital sources, or building the organizational systems to manage funding complexity, we'd love to hear about your vision.
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