An entrepreneur’s vantage point.
Our years of experience as entrepreneurs and advisors combine to create a founder-friendly environment for growing businesses.
Our Mission
Equipping Founders for Lasting Success
Our mission at Solidea is to enable promising companies to overcome the odds of entrepreneurship. We’re committed to helping them scale ambitiously and sustainably, in an environment that allows them to flourish.
our vision
Thriving Companies In Thriving Communities
When we imagine the future of America’s cities, we think of an ecosystem of strongly connected entrepreneurships and businesses that support one another and enrich the environment around them. This is about more than business. This is about creating ecosystems that create further opportunities for founders, employees and communities.
our values
Partnership
Our equity-based investment model means that we’re not just benefactors, we’re partners. We only win when the companies we invest in win. That means honesty, openness, and support.
Accountability
When we become a partner, we expect to be held accountable for our actions, and we expect the same in return. Trying moments and tough decisions are guaranteed, but we’ll have your back all the way.
Preparation
Success doesn’t happen by accident or luck. Solidea helps its clients mitigate risk by understanding the business landscape and being prepared and thoughtful, rather than simply reacting to crises.
01.
Expertise & Network
Each of our team has been through the entrepreneurial life cycle. We’ve built companies of our own, seen them succeed where others have fallen short, and helped lead plenty of others with our experience and cross-industry network.
02.
Challenges & Guidance
We’re here to help companies and founders with real potential navigate the pitfalls that come with scaling a business in a sustainable manner. Sometimes this takes gentle guidance, sometimes it takes a firm challenge to become a better leader. Either way, we’ll have your back.
03.
Investment + Sweat Equity
The Solidea approach is a little bit different. When we invest in a company, we work in return for equity. In other words, we put some skin in the game. We don’t just try to back winners — we help build them.
04.
Thinking Bigger
Success isn’t just about one business making it and the rest failing. It’s about fostering communities that allow entrepreneurs to flourish, co-exist, and raise each other’s game. This is the bigger picture we want to paint.
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Building Ecosystems
Building thriving entrepreneurial networks in cities that need them takes more than just capital investment in one or two startups. It takes leadership, governance, culture, infrastrastructure, support, and imagination.
We understand how and when to get the right brains involved, from local entrepreneurs with a unique vision, to creatives, engineers, consultants, policy-makers, and investors, all of whom serve to generate and sustain a healthy ecosystem.
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