our time-tested approach
Identifying and predicting success in early-stage venture capital
Academic research has demonstrated the historical persistence of relative outperformance of venture capital investing. Given this documented characteristic and its own investment experience, Spur emphasizes firms with significant prior success. Each Spur fund has carried forward a core group of prior Funds’ most successful relationships; concurrently Spur Capital evaluates potential new relationships that might “average up” the portfolio.
In the search for the next generation of top-tier venture firms, Spur pursues groups with unique talents and operating experience, insights and vision, and the ability to anticipate new and important technology developments and waves. The Spur investment team approaches all opportunities with an open door and open mind, and has historically been early to identify, select, and access managers who have emerged as the new generation of top-quartile venture firms.
Venture capital partnerships that Spur invests with are pursuing, supporting, and capitalizing on big, audacious ideas that are changing the world and how we live in it. These companies are revolutionizing many industries including:
- artificial intelligence
- bioinformatics
- blockchain
- consumer
- enterprise
- life sciences
- machine learning
- novel therapeutics
