You invest in startups we already work with.
Our startup ecosystem and development arm gives us direct access to the companies we back. Our partnerships with different programs bring us more. When you co-invest, you're backing startups we know firsthand, not names off a list.
We work with these companies directly.
The best opportunities rarely arrive as a cold email to a general address. Ours come from the companies we build, the programs we partner with, and the operators we know.
Our development arm
Red Ruby runs a startup ecosystem and development arm that works with companies directly. Many opportunities come from inside it. Businesses we help build and know from the ground up, not from a deck.
Program partnerships
We partner with a range of startup programs and accelerators. Those partnerships put us in front of strong companies early, often before they ever run a public raise.
Operator network
The rest comes from founders and operators we've worked beside. We see opportunities early because we're embedded where they form, not waiting for a pitch to land.
What an opportunity clears before you ever see it.
Access is only half the work. Most of what we look at never reaches you, because it hasn't earned it. Here's what we're weighing.
A team worth backing.
Founders with the judgment, resilience, and command of their space to navigate what they can't yet predict. We weight the people heavily.
A market that can matter.
A problem real enough and large enough that solving it well produces a company worth owning, not a feature in search of a market.
A reason to win.
Something durable: insight, positioning, or a capability others can't easily copy once it's working.
Terms we'd take ourselves.
Structure and price that make sense for the risk. If we wouldn't put our own capital in on these terms, we don't pass it to you.
These are the questions we intend to ask of every opportunity. Criteria and process, not a promise of outcomes. Investing in startups involves substantial risk, including loss of capital. Nothing here is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities. Opportunities may be limited to eligible or accredited investors. Placeholder disclosure, confirm exact wording with counsel.
Fewer, better-understood decisions.
A short list of companies we already know, not an overwhelming stream.
When you invest through Red Ruby, you're not sorting through hundreds of pitches hoping to spot the rare good one. You're looking at companies we work with directly or have vetted closely, each one something we'd consider for our own capital. Your attention goes to deciding, not digging.
See what clears the bar.
Register your interest and we'll share opportunities as they open.
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