What We Look For
We invest in people, markets and technology.
For us, it starts with the people. There also needs to be a big, vibrant market where the proposed product or service addresses a need, solves a problem or alleviates a pain point for a very large audience in a highly differentiated way.
We want to work with visionary entrepreneurs and strong teams who move quickly and embody successful entrepreneurial DNA with their passion, creativity and endurance.
Broadly defined, our targeted industries are:
- Digital Media
- Energy IT
- Financial Tech
- Healthcare IT
- Information Security/Fraud
- Internet
- Next Generation Software
- Open Source
- Real-time Data
- Web Infrastructure
- Tech-enabled Services (Cloud / Managed / On Demand / SaaS)
- Other
Fit with .406 Strategy
- Are you a smart, motivated entrepreneur with big ideas?
- Does your concept provide value that hasn’t been available before?
- Have you created unique, defensible technology?
- Does your concept have the potential to be a market leader?
- Are your business models innovative and highly differentiated?
- Is your venture a good fit with our firm’s domain expertise, experience and style?
Our entrepreneurs can answer an enthusiastic “Yes!” to these questions.