Transaction Experience
IPOs, convertible debt, investment-grade debt, and M&A — financial-sponsor-backed and strategic, sell-side and buy-side — plus venture and growth equity raises.
Managing Partner
Alex Martin
An experienced technology investment professional who aspires to be a wise advisor and investor — assisting start-ups and companies with ambitious goals to improve the world through innovation and new technologies.
Biography
Background & credentials
Technology Sector Focus
Across eCommerce, internet, online video, software, and clean tech.
Top Tier at Credit Suisse
Ranked top tier at a leading global investment bank, following full FINRA compliance and procedures.
Ivey Business School, Western University
Attended on a National Scholarship awarded to the top 25 entering first-years for academic and all-around extra-curricular achievement.
Advisory mentality
How I advise
I aspire to be a positive force to any company I advise, helping them accomplish great things. I hold an impeccable reputation as an honest, trustworthy, intelligent, and principled investment professional with high integrity.
Business mindset
How I invest
I think about business like a stock-picker and believe you can generate great returns by finding unique and innovative companies that are transforming the marketplace.
Guiding principles
Favourite quotes
Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.
As a symbol, I can be incorruptible.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Inspiration
Inspiring videos
Batman Begins — The Will to Act
Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you.
300 — King vs. Tyrant
The King would die for any of his own. Be a King.
Suits — Harvey vs. Stemple
What I can't take is losing to a coward who's too afraid to try to beat me again.
World Leader, not World Boss
A leader treats the janitor like the CEO.