Brown Advisory Seed Capital
With balance sheet capital, we invest in companies that are aligned with our purpose: to raise the future.
In our core investment business, we are privileged to serve an inspiring group of clients around the world. Many of these individuals, families, family offices, nonprofits, and institutions were behind the success of leading industry incumbents. Through our Seed Capital program, we strive to connect these leaders with next-generation innovators—helping incumbents access game-changing new business ideas and supporting emerging innovators with the capital they need to move the world forward.
Since day one, private investment expertise has been a pillar of our ability to create value for clients—many of our first clients were founders and executives who built significant private companies and were in the process of going public. By leveraging this expertise with our balance sheet capital, Brown Advisory Seed Capital strives to invest in mission-driven, early-stage startup companies across our four investment themes that are tackling significant challenges; creating transformational products, services, and technologies; pursuing large total addressable markets; and generating multi-stakeholder impact.
In addition to financial capital, we offer entrepreneurs access to the Brown Advisory ecosystem—including the opportunity to pilot products, connect with prospective customers, obtain public-market insights, and receive amplification for their stories through our marketing and communications channels.
Our goals are to bridge industry incumbents with industry innovators, introduce our clients to next-generation business builders, enhance our firm’s culture of continual learning, and support our communities through job creation and economic opportunity—as we work together to raise the future.
Investing to Raise the Future
Using our traditionally rigorous investment process, we “seed” relationships with company builders and incubation partners that are driving novel innovation across established sectors. Our balance sheet investments focus on four key themes where early-stage innovation seeks to disrupt large total addressable markets. Brown Advisory Seed Capital’s four target investment themes include:
health care reimagined
The acceleration of cutting-edge innovation will raise the future of industry conglomerates. There is a wave of innovation taking place at the intersection of biological sciences, computation, and technology that will have sweeping implications across manufacturing, industrial, and health care sectors. Personalized therapies, new materials, and robotics are changing the nature of industries, the ways we interact with them, and how they interact with each other.
future of work
We target products and services that raise the future of human productivity and/or social benefits both within sectors (“vertical solutions”) and across business types (“horizontal solutions”). From machine learning to cloud-based business, multi-sector businesses have the potential to drive meaningful workplace efficiencies in vertical solutions—such as FinTech, LegalTech, PropTech, and ClimateTech—as well as horizontal applications, such as cybersecurity.
next-generation consumer
We seek to invest in new products, services, and technologies that reflect modern consumer goals for better-for-you and better-for-the-environment options. We look for companies that leverage multi-stakeholder mindsets to increase brand loyalty, supply chain reliability, and waste reduction, among other factors, to disrupt established industries.
frontier technology
The acceleration of cutting-edge innovation will pose opportunities for industry conglomerates. Personalized therapies, new materials, and robotics, as well as innovations at the intersection of biological sciences, computation, and technology are poised to disrupt manufacturing, industrial and health care sectors.
To learn more, please contact Elise Liberto, Managing Director of Private Investments, at [email protected].
By investing in innovation, we believe that—together—we can raise the future for our clients, our colleagues, and our communities.
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At Brown Advisory, we catalyze innovation in mission-driven businesses and initiatives that are designed to materially enhance opportunities in our communities. These strategic investments take the form of capital, resources, and collaboration with change-agents who promote opportunity, equity, and inclusion in the ecosystems in which we work.
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