Welcome to Broadline Capital
Broadline Capital is a global alternative investment firm focused primarily on growth capital and late-stage ventures. Founded over two decades ago by Chris Thorne, the firm has developed a history of investing in category leaders and category creators that are helping to re-shape their industry.
At Broadline, we are inspired by champions — people of vision and courage — whose ideas can positively change the world, and who are ready to transform their ideas into the next big, industry-changing company.
We aim to serve as an "investor of preferred choice" for innovative companies. We seek companies that are positioned to create broad impact as the world continues to transition toward an economy increasingly driven by technology transformation and the pursuit of a more efficient, sustainable, and healthy life.
Broadline's leaders have spent their entire careers building trust-based relationships globally. Most have developed and led successful companies, where they negotiated quality exits on behalf of themselves and their investors. Broadline's team brings together a unique combination of pragmatic operating experience, relevant domain expertise, and access to their vast network of relationships built over many years. We believe our current opportunities are among the most exciting on the planet.
​
New York | London | Zurich | Abu Dhabi | Singapore | Columbus | Miami
Our Approach
Broadline Capital's proprietary approach is designed to stretch alpha at every link of the investment value chain. Our investment team seeks diversification across a range of sectors, geographies, structures, and market caps. When selecting opportunities, we take a two-pronged approach:
​
-
First, we start with a "top-down" view across the horizon to identify the core thematic categories where a combination of factors (e.g., large addressable market, strong margins, rapid growth, market fragmentation, consolidation potential, and privileged access to quality deal flow) create abundant opportunities.
​
-
Next, we take a "bottom-up" view to identify partnership opportunities within these selected areas of focus, seeking to identify like-minded category leaders and category creators that are nearing an expected liquidity event or valuation milestone such as an IPO or M&A event.
Portfolio Highlights
Thematic Areas of Focus
-
Core Technologies. We've been leading investments in the AI category for nearly 20 years. We're actively seeking the next generation of AI-enabled solutions to address the widespread demand for automation, improved decision engines, and solutions that are transforming decision speed, efficiency, accuracy, precision, data security, and access to unique data sources. Our core tech category is led by the founder and former leader of Apple's semiconductor design organization and iPhone engineering design team who co-authored the Java language during his prior career as a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems.
​​
-
Financial Services. We believe the digital asset class is in its infancy and the best opportunities for investing in shapers of this category are still ahead. We place emphasis on unlocking value-added financial services and digital solutions that enable smarter, faster, more convenient, and more accessible offerings.​​ Our financial services category is co-led by a former leader from McKinsey's financial institutions group and BlackRock's former co-Chief Investment Officer of fixed income.
​
-
Agritech & Food Systems. We're inspired to back the rising category creators whose innovations will help transform the food ecosystem and end global malnutrition by upgrading production quality, supply chain resilience, cold storage efficiency, source traceability, ingredient transparency, and food security. Our Agritech and Food Systems category is co-led by serial entrepreneurs who have built a vast relationship network and more than 25 years of pragmatic operating history in this category.
​
-
Energy & Data Infrastructure. We seek to back innovators whose solutions enable total cost of ownership savings and energy efficiency gains, with emphasis on supporting the ecosystem for Smarter Data Centers, next-gen Energy Storage, as well as Safer, Smarter, and More Energy-Efficient Logistics and Warehousing.​ Our Energy and Data Infrastructure category is led by a serial entrepreneur who holds numerous issued patents, has published many peer-reviewed articles, and serves as a faculty member at a top university.
​
-
Health & Life Sciences. We back later-stage innovators who are advancing novel therapeutic platforms, AI-enabled synthetic biologics, and less-invasive devices to improve patient outcomes and help realize the promise of precision medicine.​​ Led by the former head of clinical pharmacology at two of the world's pharma giants, our Health and Life Sciences category brings more than 50 years of collective domain experience and expertise.
​
-
Sports, Media & Entertainment. The sports, media and entertainment industry continues to witness exponential and dynamic growth. Top-tier properties enjoy global appeal across virtually every demographic. Led by the former president and general manager of two NBA teams and an NFL team, our investment leadership team for this category brings deep pragmatic experience and a vast relationship network built over 45 years.
​
If you're a Broadline-registered investor, please click on the Investor Login
at the top of this website for investment reports.
Our Team
Broadline Capital's partners have spent their entire careers building trust-based relationships globally. They understand what it takes to align toward a shared vision, develop a clear plan, and work together to create extraordinary value for all key stakeholders -- because they've done it many times.
​
​​Broadline seeks to bring together an unparalleled pool of talent who bring relevant domain expertise, pragmatic operating experience, and access to a vast network of relationships. Broadline has convened a cohesive team comprised of past CEOs and entrepreneurs who created significant value in their past companies. They love going back to their roots to help new entrepreneurs succeed.
Broadline's team is comprised of faculty members at the world's leading research institutions including Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, The Ohio State University, University of California - San Diego, and University of Texas - Dallas. Broadline's team members are former professionals at many of the world's top companies in their industry, including Allergan/Abvie, Apple, BlackRock, Boston Consulting Group, Brunswick, General Electric, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, PwC, Pfizer, and Roche. They collectively hold approximately 50 academic degrees and 25 doctorates and other advanced degrees.
Contact
"At Broadline Capital, we are inspired by champions – people of vision and courage – whose ideas can positively change the world, and who are working to transform their ideas into the next big, industry-changing company. If you share our perspective, we invite you to join us."
