SOLOMON PARTNERS invests the partnership's capital in deep-technology companies across our coverage sectors — from early conviction positions to growth equity and special situations. Every investment is underwritten by the same technical work we sell to others.
Engineering-intensive companies with a measurable technical edge — in drones and unmanned systems, aerospace and space, semiconductors, quantum, AI infrastructure, and the adjacent frontier. We favor businesses where the hard part is physics, certification, or manufacturing scale-up: the places where our judgement earns its keep.
We are flexible on structure and disciplined on entry. The firm takes minority equity positions from early rounds through growth capital, participates in special situations and structured transactions, and co-invests alongside venture, strategic, and institutional partners. We size positions to our conviction and reserve for follow-on.
Before we invest, we do to a company exactly what our advisory clients pay us to do to theirs: test the architecture, read the test data, interrogate the roadmap, and price the technical risk. If a company does not withstand our own due diligence, we do not ask other people's capital to bear what ours will not.
We are useful shareholders. We help portfolio companies with subsequent rounds through our Capital Formation practice, open doors across our industrial and institutional network in Korea and abroad, and — where invited — contribute board-level technical judgement on roadmap, hiring, and certification strategy.
Where an investment could conflict with an advisory engagement, the advisory client is told first and the conflict is resolved before work begins — usually by our declining one of the two. Our reputation for independence is worth more than any single position.
If your company's edge is technical, we are the kind of investor who will actually understand it. Send us a serious summary.