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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 be an "investor of preferred choice" for innovative companies that are positioned to create broad impact as the world continues to transition toward an economy increasingly fueled by technology transformation and the pursuit of a more efficient, sustainable, and healthier life.  

 

Broadline's leaders have spent their entire careers building trust-based relationships globally.  Most have built and led successful companies and negotiated quality exits on behalf of themselves and their investors.  Our contributing team members and vast relationship networks built over many years create a unique combination of pragmatic operating experience and unparalleled access to relevant domain expertise.  We believe our current opportunities are among the most exciting on the planet.

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Learn why -

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Approach

 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.

Investments

  Portfolio Highlights  

Core Thematic Areas of Focus

  • Energy Storage & Data Centers.  Transforming the way energy and data are generated, stored, distributed, and monetized with greater speed, precision, security, safety and efficiency.

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  • AI-Driven Technologies.  Introducing the next generation of robotics and AI-driven solutions to address customers' urgent needs for improved data sources, speed, accuracy, efficiency, and precision.

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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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  • Health and Life Sciences.  Advancing novel therapeutic platforms, AI-enabled synthetic biologics, and less-invasive medical devices to improve patient outcomes and help realize the promise of precision medicine.

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  • The Food System.  Upgrading the food ecosystem by improving 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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If you're a Broadline-registered investor, please click on the "Investor Login" tab at the top of this website for investment reports.

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Team

 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 and develop a clear plan, and then 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 with relevant domain expertise and access to a vast network of relationships to help benefit current and future opportunities.

  • Broadline's team members are 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 members have excelled in past careers at top institutions such as Allergan, Apple, Boston Consulting Group, Brunswick, General Electric, McKinsey & Company, Morgan Stanley, Oppenheimer, PwC, Pfizer, and Roche.  

  • Broadline's team members have served on the faculty of the world's leading research and educational institutions, including Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, The Ohio State University, University of California in San Diego, and University of Texas in Dallas.

  • Broadline's team members collectively hold 46 academic degrees, 21 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." 

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