Overview

Strantia is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage companies. We have decades of personal experience in the high-altitude, rarified air of new enterprises. As experienced operational managers, we are investing time; energy and money to help emerging technology companies create the strategies, systems, infrastructure and management teams to become leaders in their markets. We're attracted to big ideas over small, build companies for large rather than niche markets, and we value integrity in business practices above all else. We relish our role as enablers and catalysts for entrepreneurs to create and build great companies of lasting value.

Building companies "the right way"

Strantia's considered approach to investing extends to its board participation and governance of portfolio companies. We prefer to see companies financed for 18 - 24 months worth of working capital between rounds of financing, and operating on a business plan to support that proposition. We work to foster intimate communications between the company's entire management team and its board as part of the practice of regularly evaluating management for performance.

We work hard to build an ecosystem of expertise around our companies

We leverage our external networks and our internal operating executives, who have built companies in the past. We look for leaders in their community who can lend expertise and judgment, as well as their networks, and get them involved with the companies their backgrounds best match. Strantia's active guidance approach to investing combines deep knowledge of markets, a proven analytical approach, extensive networks, internal operating expertise and an appreciation for communication and rapid problem-solving to shepherd our companies to success in their chosen markets.

The people at Strantia are a diverse lot. Our partners are entrepreneurs themselves, having formed, run and sold multiple companies across a spectrum of industries. Our professional staff brings financial, legal, product development, marketing and operations support to the firm and the partners at Enterprise draw on their experience when working with our portfolio companies.

Entrepreneurs often ask us what we look for in a company. Typically, we look at large emerging markets and markets undergoing fundamental changes along with the companies that we believe will become leaders in these markets and we look for talented people with innovative business models that can create or transform these large markets.