RH Strategic built a communications firm for ideas that are difficult to explain and expensive to misunderstand. Its wager is that influence can be engineered - and measured - without reducing public relations to a pile of clips.
JLM Partners built a communications business by staying small, learning the plumbing of broadband and showing up wherever complicated technology needs a plain-English story.
Fred Bateman started over in a pandemic, showed employees how the money moved, and built a tech communications shop around a deceptively practical idea: complicated companies need a story people can repeat.
Visa, Uber Eats and Ticketmaster have bought businesses backed by Knife Capital. The South African investor is building its next chapter around a $50 million fund and a blunt question: who will want to own this company?
For more than three decades, Baird Capital has backed founder-led B2B technology and services companies from an early venture check to a late-stage buyout - one global team, one employee-owned firm, and a preference for the sectors most people scroll past.
Converge VC backs pre-seed through Series A companies where AI, software infrastructure and machines meet the stubborn physics of work. Its pitch is capital with operating memory - and fewer scripts for founders to follow.