Backing the technologies that will still matter in ten years.
Startrise is an investment and technology company. We invest directly and indirectly in startups, emerging companies and other ventures, and hold technology and intellectual property interests of our own.
Our business brings together investment, technology and intellectual property with a single objective: building value that lasts.
We look for opportunities with strong long-term growth potential — usually in fields where the hard part is engineering rather than positioning, and where being right takes longer than a fund cycle allows. Then we stay long enough for the answer to become obvious.
We invest our own capital, at our own pace. No fundraising calendar, no pressure to deploy, no obligation to have an opinion about everything.
Three ways to hold a position.
Direct investment
We take positions in startups, emerging companies and other ventures, usually early and usually alongside founders we expect to keep talking to for years.
Indirect investment
We commit to funds, vehicles and co-investments that reach teams, sectors and geographies we would not see on our own.
Technology & IP
We hold technology and intellectual property interests, and develop them through licensing, joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
Areas of particular interest.
Seven fields we keep coming back to. They overlap more every year, which is part of why we hold them together.
Artificial intelligence
Models, tooling and the applied systems that put them to work inside real operations.
Cybersecurity
Identity, data and infrastructure protected against an attack surface that keeps widening.
Robotics
Autonomy and machines that do physical work in unstructured environments.
Digital infrastructure
Compute, networks and storage — and the power and platforms underneath them.
Enterprise software
Systems of record and workflow that become hard to remove once installed.
FinTech
Payments, markets and the plumbing that moves and settles money.
Emerging technologies
Fields still forming, where the first credible teams set the direction.
Not everything we do looks like a financing.
Startrise holds technology and intellectual property interests, and takes part in strategic investments and partnerships: licensing, joint ventures, technology transfer and structured arrangements with operating companies. Sometimes the right instrument is a cheque. Sometimes it is a patent portfolio, a partnership or a shared roadmap.
Four commitments we hold ourselves to.
A long horizon
We size positions to be held through cycles. The technologies we care about take years to become obvious, and we would rather be early and patient than fast and out.
Concentration over coverage
A small number of positions we can genuinely think about beats a long list we can only track. Fewer names means real attention when it counts.
Useful beyond capital
Technology and intellectual property are part of the business, not a sideline. That gives us something to offer besides money: partnerships, licensing routes and people who have solved the problem before.
Discretion
We do not publish our positions or our partners’ business. Founders and co-investors decide what gets announced, and when.
If you are building one of these, write to us.
One email, in plain language: what you are building, who is building it, and what you need. We read everything ourselves and reply to what we can act on.