PARTNER WITH US
Bring us the exceptional.
We take on a small number of companies and give them everything: structure, capital, engineering and operators who stay. Here’s how to get in the room.
Founders
You have the exceptional idea, the unfair insight or the early traction. We structure the company, build the platform, fund the plan and operate beside you. You stay the founder — you gain a firm.
Executives & Operators
You’ve run the playbook at scale and want equity in what you operate, not another advisory retainer. Join a build as an operating executive-in-residence.
Capital Partners
You want exposure to companies that are engineered, not just funded. Invest alongside us into ventures we structure, build and operate ourselves.
A note on capital. Protocol 42 commits capital selectively — to a small number of companies each year, at our sole discretion, after diligence and only under definitive written agreements. We are not a lender, bank, or registered investment adviser or dealer, and nothing on this site is an offer of financing, an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities, or a commitment of funds. Engaging with us — including submitting our intake form — creates no obligation, funding relationship or advisory relationship of any kind.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
Conviction has a checklist.
An exceptional idea with an unfair insight at its core. A market that is ready to be redefined — or too unglamorous for everyone else to notice. Founders who want partners in the work, not passengers on the cap table. And a problem where enterprise-grade engineering and applied AI compound into a moat.
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The conversation
Tell us what you’re building and why it must exist. If it’s exceptional, we’ll know quickly.
02
Diligence & design
We pressure-test the idea like engineers and price it like investors — together, in the open.
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Terms we both sign
One structure, one cap table, one mission. Then we get to work.
The first step is a conversation.
Tell us who you are and what you’re bringing. We respond to every serious note.