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The Council invests in proven operators solving critical problems in three core sectors: Industrial (efficiency, reliability, and sustainability), Healthcare (equal access to high quality and low cost healthcare), and Critical Functions (essential business operations).

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Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

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Investment Thesis

The Council invests in ‘high slope operators’ who are reshaping essential industries through technology and operational excellence. They believe in backing founders who have deep operational experience—people who have done the work themselves, from cold calls to customer support, design reviews to team building. Their investment thesis centers on supporting ‘First Builders’—operators and generalists who uplevel everything around them—at the earliest stages of their founding journey.

What Sets Them Apart

  • Partners are themselves 'First Builders' with deep operational experience—they've been early employees at scaled companies like Cruise and Komodo Health
  • Partner team brings specific functional expertise: Sales, Voice of Customer, Engineering, Operations, Product, Design, Marketing, and Healthcare
  • Focus on operators-turned-founders rather than pure entrepreneurs
  • Strong emphasis on supporting founders 'from the grit and the grind' at earliest stages
  • Angel community model with 200+ operator-investors who contribute beyond capital

Portfolio Highlights

Ampere Financial

Fintech

Arvist

Ai Ml

Bounty

Industrial

Flex

Industrial

Dirac

Industrial

Leaficient

Industrial

Loamy

Industrial

Nox Metals

Industrial

+ 21 more companies in their portfolio

Investment Team

8 Partners at The Council

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