About Nucleus Adventure Capital
Born out of decades of friendship and investing, Nucleus Adventure Capital was created to identify and support groundbreaking innovation in the pursuit of a better world. We invest early and quickly, build relationships with founders and love to get our hands dirty to help our partners achieve their goals.
Our fundamental investment philosophy has two main tenets:
1) We believe that identifying and investing behind change - especially fundamental shifts in how the world works or what is possible - is key to capturing exponential returns
2) We believe that while success in early-stage investing may appear to be random to the casual observer, subject matter expertise and diligence combined with privileged access can tilt the power law of returns in our favor
As a result we stick to our knitting: we have had success and we continue to find exciting opportunities to work with incredible and driven executive teams operating in markets that are going to be big in products that touch people.
Our approach is deliberately sector and vertical agnostic, but generally our portfolio companies either touch consumers themselves or are one step removed. We've invested in businesses ranging from IoT to ice cream to space tourism to secure crypto wallets (and everything in between).
We believe our best investments come when we can understand the impact of a product or service on the person at the end of the value chain and the difference it makes in their life, and that the value created will ultimately be much, much bigger than the market currently understands.
We evaluate hundreds of opportunities annually from sources public and private: private placements, portco spinoffs, syndicates, friendly VCs, accelerators, founder referrals, and plain old fashioned networking and shoe leather.
We look for the combination of team + product that are positioned to win the future and access + opportunity that we believe gives us asymmetrical upside, and then look to share the best of the best with partners who can contribute more than just capital.
