Benevolent Disruptors deliver 51% higher returns than traditional venture investments
Companies solving our biggest structural problems drive outsized returns. We back these companies.
Benevolent Disruption™ is a proprietary research model to identify these companies
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Only 47% of AI-native companies are tackling what we define as big problems

Co-Author
Professor Josh Lerner
Helping us with Origination, Due Diligence and Portfolio Support.
Allocators

Nigel Morris
Co-founder, QED Investors; Co-founder, Capital One

Barry Sternlicht
CEO, Starwood Capital

Rishi Kapoor
Vice Chairman & Chief Investment Officer, InvestCorp

Henrik Persson
Co-founder, Sprints

Andrew L. Cohen
Executive Chairman of the Global Private Bank and a Global Chair of Investment Banking, J.P. Morgan

Maya Chorengel
Co-Managing Partner, TPG Rise Fund

Diana Guzman
Head of Sustainability, Prudential PLC

Katherine Davidson
Investment Manager, Baillie Gifford

Madeleine Evans
Director, Generation Investment Management

Marisa Drew
Chief Sustainability Officer, Standard Chartered Bank

Marcus Stuttard
Head of AIM & UK Primary Markets, London Stock Exchange

Meraj Sepehrnia
Former Head of Total Returns Sustainability, Pictet Asset Management

Michiel Scheffer
President, European Innovation Council Board

Patrick Pichette
Partner, Inovia Capital; Former CFO, Google

Keith Robinson
Former Chairman EMEA Technology Banking, Barclays

Henry Ritchotte
Former COO, Deutsche Bank

David Clarke
Chief Investment Officer, Vencap International

Carolyn Patton
Head of Private Market Client Solutions, TIFF Investment Management

Didier Valet
Former Deputy CEO, Société Générale

Colin le Duc
Founding Partner, Generation Investment Management

Gary Pinkus
Chairman, McKinsey & Company
Innovators

Harley Finklestein
President, Shopify

Greg Jackson
CEO, Octopus Energy

Thomas Wolf
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face

Matt Oppenheimer
Founder, Remitly

John Mackey
Co-founder, Whole Foods

Lila Ibrahim
Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind

Joel Perlman
Co-founder, OakNorth

Michael Acton Smith
Co-founder & Executive Chair, Calm

Oliver Kent-Braham
Co-founder & Co-CEO, Marshmallow Insurance

Thomas Plantega
CEO, Vinted

Tom Lee
Founder, One Medical

Kaarel Kotkas
Founder, Veriff

Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO, Tessian

Thomas Elnick
Co-Founder, Tegus

Dorothy Kilroy
Chief Commercial Officer, Oura
Conversations

Founding Partner, Generation Investment Management

Co-founder, QED Investors; Co-founder, Capital One

President, European Innovation Council Board

Chief Investment Officer, Vencap International

Executive Chairman of the Global Private Bank and a Global Chair of Investment Banking, J.P. Morgan

President, Shopify

CEO, Octopus Energy

Founder, Remitly

Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face