Beyond our core sectors lies the frontier that feeds them: robotics, applied AI systems, advanced materials, energy storage, and photonics. SOLOMON PARTNERS maintains active coverage of these fields — because tomorrow's core sector is today's adjacency.
Emerging technology rewards early, disciplined attention. Robotics is crossing from caged automation to general-purpose manipulation; applied AI is becoming an engineering discipline with measurable reliability; new materials and storage chemistries are quietly resetting the cost curves of every hardware sector we cover.
We cover these fields with the same method we apply everywhere: identify the measurable technical claim, test it against data, and let valuation follow evidence. Much of our work here supports corporate and government clients deciding where to place long-horizon bets.
Robotic manipulation and locomotion performance, autonomy reliability in unstructured environments, AI system evaluation and safety cases, battery and storage chemistry claims, advanced materials scale-up from lab to line, and photonic devices moving from paper to product.
Through Principal Investments we take positions across the capital structure — venture and growth equity, special situations, and co-investment alongside institutional partners — always underwritten by our own technical work rather than borrowed conviction.
Through our Technology Advisory practice we deliver independent assessments, technical due diligence, and written expert opinions in this sector for investors, boards, lenders, corporates, and government programs. Through Capital Formation we prepare and run fundraising processes for companies whose technology withstands our own scrutiny.
We invest in it, raise capital for it, and evaluate it. Tell us where you sit, and we will bring the relevant practice to the table.