We think of ourselves as an Anti-Fund: We are an investment firm based on a small set of postulates and while we invest with limited partner investors (mostly family offices), via special purpose vehicles, any similarity to the alternative fund universe ends there: no suits, no ties, no business cards, no titles, no ego, no nonsense. Like our affiliated advisory firm Advection Growth Capital, GrayArch we aim to identify and partner with young, growing, and transformative companies – especially those that fall outside the traditional private equity models.
While traditional funds are constrained by investment periods, transaction sizes, mandates, structure, industries, hurdle rates, and geographies, GrayArch remains focused on only two core principles which serve as the columns upon which the firm rests:
Return must significantly exceed risk by a measure sufficient to justify the investment of our time; and when successful the venture should render our lives: