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.
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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:
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First, we start with a "top-down" view across the horizon to identify a few core thematic categories where a combination of factors (e.g., large addressable market, strong margins, rapid growth, market fragmentation, and consolidation potential) are creating abundant opportunities.
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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
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Core Technologies. Investing in the next generation of AI-driven solutions to address urgent needs for automation, improved decision engines, unique data sources, and innovations that transform decision speed, efficiency, accuracy, precision, and data security.
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Financial Services. Unlocking value-added financial services and digital solutions that enable smarter, faster, more convenient, and more accessible offerings.​​
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Agritech & Food Systems. Improving the food ecosystem by upgrading production quality, supply chain resilience, cold storage efficiency, source traceability, ingredient transparency, food security, and conversion of food waste to biofuel.
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Energy & Data Infrastructure. Capturing total cost of ownership value and energy efficiency gains for Data Centers and Equipment Fleets through innovation.​
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Health & Life Sciences. Advancing novel therapeutic platforms, AI-enabled synthetic biologics, and less-invasive devices to improve patient outcomes and help realize the promise of precision medicine.​​
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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.
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​​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, 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.
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"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."
