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About BeMoreeDriven Capital

An institutional growth capital firm with a singular focus: partnering with the technology companies defining the next decade of enterprise value creation.

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Our Mission

Purpose-Built for the Growth Stage

BeMoreeDriven Capital was founded on a straightforward premise: the growth stage of company building is the most consequential and the most underserved by traditional venture capital. Early-stage investors lack the balance sheet. Late-stage investors lack the operational proximity. We built a firm designed specifically for the inflection point between initial scale and market leadership.

We are an institutional investment manager, not a family office or a fund-of-funds. Our capital comes from endowments, pension funds, sovereign wealth vehicles, and family offices who share our long-term investment horizon and our conviction in technology as the primary driver of enterprise value creation in the 21st century.

Founded in New York in 2016 and backed by a Seed Round of $5M that allowed us to build the team and infrastructure before deploying external LP capital, we have spent nine years refining our investment process, our portfolio support programs, and our co-investment network.

Core Principles

The Values That Shape Every Decision

These are not aspirational statements. They are operational commitments that govern how we evaluate investments, support founders, and manage our relationships with LPs and co-investors.

Intellectual Honesty

We speak plainly about what we believe, including when those beliefs run counter to consensus. Founders deserve partners who will challenge their assumptions with evidence, not flatter them with optimism.

Concentrated Conviction

We do not build diversified portfolios. We take meaningful positions in a small number of companies where our conviction is highest, and we support those companies with commensurate resource and attention.

Operational Credibility

Every member of our investment team has built or operated companies at scale. We have made the mistakes. We have navigated the crises. Our advice is grounded in direct experience, not theory.

Institutional Discipline

We hold ourselves to the same standards of transparency, governance, and process excellence that we expect from the companies in which we invest. LPs and founders can rely on consistent, principled behavior.

Firm History

A Decade of Building and Investing

2016

Firm Founded

BeMoreeDriven Capital established in New York with an initial Seed Round of $5M to build institutional investment infrastructure. James Alderton and Claire Montgomery co-found the firm after careers at top-tier investment banks and technology companies.

2017

First Institutional Fund

BeMoreeDriven Capital I closes with commitments from six institutional LPs. First three investments made in enterprise infrastructure companies.

2019

Expanded Investment Team

Addition of sector specialists in enterprise AI, fintech, and health technology. First co-investment with General Catalyst in a Series B enterprise analytics company.

2021

Fund II & Portfolio Growth

BeMoreeDriven Capital II closes at twice the size of Fund I. Portfolio reaches 18 active companies across four primary investment verticals. Three successful exits realized.

2023

Current Fund Launch

BeMoreeDriven Capital III launches with enhanced portfolio support programs and an expanded co-investor network spanning North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

2025

Market Recognition

Recognized as a leading growth-stage investor by multiple industry publications. AUM surpasses $320M with 24 active portfolio companies across the technology sector.

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Investment Thesis

What We Believe About Technology Markets

AI is a Platform Shift, Not a Feature

Artificial intelligence is not an incremental capability improvement. It represents a fundamental restructuring of how software is built and how enterprises operate. The companies that build around this shift from inception will have structural advantages that compound over decades.

Vertical SaaS Will Dominate

Horizontal platforms are giving way to deeply verticalized solutions with superior retention, higher willingness to pay, and lower competitive intensity from non-specialist entrants. We seek the category leaders in each vertical before they become obvious.

Network Effects Create Durable Moats

In a world of low marginal cost distribution, the most defensible businesses are those where value increases with scale. We prioritize companies with genuine network effects embedded in their core architecture, not bolted on as features.

International Expansion is Underpriced

US-headquartered technology companies with proven domestic models are systematically undervalued at the moment they begin international expansion. We invest at this inflection point when the risk/reward is most attractive.

Capital Efficiency is Durable Quality

The companies that built on low-cost capital will structurally underperform those that achieved growth efficiently. We weight capital efficiency metrics heavily in our underwriting and management in our portfolio support.

Trust Compounds Like Capital

In an industry where reputation is the primary asset, we believe that consistent, ethical behavior in all our relationships compounds over long time horizons in ways that are impossible to short-circuit. We are building a firm designed to last.

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Interested in Learning More?

Whether you are a founder considering your next growth round or an LP interested in our current fund, we welcome the conversation.

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