Most venture firms write checks and wait. Invenshure hires the scientists, licenses the patents, and builds the company itself - one hard problem at a time.
Cannon Project recruits the people who make an early startup real, then selectively backs the companies it has helped assemble. Its wager is simple: hiring is not only a service - it is a way to see the market from inside the engine room.
The Providence Groups turned a long-term-care operator in White House, Tennessee into a ten-company family office that bets on septic pumping, nurse staffing, and construction - the businesses nobody posts about.