What We Do
Venture Capital and Growth Equity
Sea Court Capital identifies venture capital and growth equity investments through a highly curated, research-driven approach focused on innovative technologies and business models. The firm targets early- and mid-stage tech-enabled growth companies, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, logistics, and digital assets.
Key elements of Sea Court’s investment identification process include:
- Sector Expertise and Strategic Partnerships: Sea Court leverages deep sector knowledge and strategic partnerships to access differentiated deal flow and conduct rigorous due diligence. We enhance our ability to source high-quality, innovative companies and provide tailored capital solutions by becoming a trusted advisor.
- Leadership Experience: The team, led by seasoned professionals like Jim DeNaut, Alexis Glick, Steve Quamme, and Patrick English, brings decades of experience in investment banking, private equity, and global asset management. Our backgrounds provide access to extensive networks and institutional relationships, enabling us to identify promising opportunities early for our companies.
- Curated Investment Approach: Sea Court’s Opportunity Fund I, now closed, was designed to support a select group of early- and mid-stage investments, emphasizing companies with disruptive solutions and strong growth potential. The fund’s focus is on businesses that can benefit from both completion capital and strategic advisory support.
- Rigorous Evaluation: The firm conducts thorough evaluations of each opportunity, drawing on its leadership’s experience in advising, allocating capital, and managing investments for a diverse set of clients, including institutions, family offices, and endowments.
- Sea Court Capital’s process combines sector specialization, strategic advisory partnerships, and the leadership’s extensive investment experience to identify and invest in high-potential venture capital and growth equity opportunities, particularly in innovative, tech-enabled solutions and sectors where disruption is warranted.
Strategic Advisory
Sea Court Capital provides strategic advisory services leveraging our team’s deep sector expertise, robust industry relationships, and banking experience. This enables Sea Court to offer our clients a comprehensive suite of services, including capital structuring, M&A advisory, portfolio management, and tailored strategic guidance.
- Integrated Expertise: Our backgrounds in investment banking, private equity, and asset management, positions us as a trusted advisor on M&A, capital markets, and asset management strategies. Our experience with institutions, family offices, and endowments allows us to address complex client needs across various transaction types and market conditions.
- Curated, Client-Centric Approach: We focus on supporting a select group of high-potential companies, offering hands-on advisory and capital support tailored to each client’s strategic objectives and growth stage.
How we identify which industries to work with:
- Focus on Innovation and Disruption: We target industries and companies who embrace innovative technologies, agentic AI solutions and whose business models produce significant ARR. Recent investments in healthcare, life sciences, digital assets, and technology-sectors where disruptive solutions can drive significant growth and value creation have been our biggest winners.
- Sector Expertise and Market Trends: Our team brings decades of experience in identifying sectors poised for transformation. We prioritize industries where our knowledge, network, and capital can have the greatest impact, and where market trends indicate strong growth potential. Areas where we have extensive experience; healthcare, technology, energy transition, infrastructure, and real estate.
- Solution Businesses versus Service Businesses: We ensure that the companies we invest in are providing solutions to end users, rather than a technology service. This methodology provides clarity around adoption and provides a clear path to an endpoint for our investors.
- Founders with Passion and Purpose: Our team identifies founders with deep sector expertise, a track record for identifying gaps, deploying solutions, and with a passion for making a difference. At Sea Court Capital, we identify purpose-driven leaders with a strong conviction, a relentless work ethic, and the vision to drive meaningful change – creating lasting value for both their companies and the communities they serve.
