We empower ambitious founders with capital + creative ingenuity to achieve their full potential.
We measure success in years, not months.
We are patient partners. We have ample committed capital and the flexibility to hold our investments for over 5 years, a longer time horizon than traditional private equity funds.
We invest in expansion-stage, capital efficient businesses with a minimum of $5M in revenue.
We unlock value from market dislocations and complex opportunities, investing across a broad range of sectors and stages. This strategy has delivered a 33% IRR on all realised investments over the last 10 years.
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WHY CONTRABANDE YOU ASK?
Contrabande is a response to the widespread recognition in the industry that "the models are broken" and the traditional debt & equity financing solutions are becoming less and less effective.
From inception, we realized intuitively that, in order to succeed, we needed to create an entity that was, literally, ‘Contrabande’ – something that deviates from the norm or from expectations.
To that end, Contrabande possesses an extremely diverse and elastic set of expertise of creative + capital and operates on a progressive and entrepreneurial business model; focuses on driving ultimate profitability; and lastly, has broken down traditional silos through a single bottom line – so as opposed to the status quo, mega-mall-esque conglomerations we're not just investors, we're partners.
