The firm
Built to hold, not to exit.
Most investment vehicles are designed around a date: a fund term, a redemption window, a planned exit. Tao Capital is designed around a business.
The firm invests proprietary, permanent capital. Its principals have worked on both sides of the table — in investment banking and trading, and in founding and running operating businesses in technology and real estate — and the firm is built on that experience rather than on a fund structure.
That experience shapes how Tao Capital invests. It looks for businesses with durable economics and capable management, takes positions large enough to matter, and stays involved. Its permanent capital means it can be the partner a company needs at each stage rather than the partner a fund calendar allows.
About Tao CapitalThree platforms
Private equity
Control and growth positions in operating businesses, with particular depth in technology and healthcare and further activity in sports, real estate and consumer retail.
Liquid strategies
A secondary platform deploying capital across liquid strategies, balancing the firm's long-dated private holdings with flexible, liquid exposure.
Permanent capital
Investment from the firm's own balance sheet. No fund term, no external investor timetable, and the freedom to set structure and horizon on the merits of each case.
Principles
Own the outcome
We invest our own money. Every decision carries our own risk, which is the strongest alignment a partner can offer.
Time is an asset
Permanent capital lets us measure a business in years, not quarters, and to compound rather than to rotate.
Depth before breadth
We concentrate where we understand the economics: technology, healthcare and a small number of sectors we have built in ourselves.
Discretion
We do not publicise holdings or partners. The businesses we back speak for themselves; we prefer to let them.
Capital without a deadline behaves differently. It can wait, it can say no, and it can stay.Tao Capital
Working with us
A partner, not a fund.
Tao Capital backs a small number of businesses and stays with them. For founders and owners seeking succession, expansion or recapitalisation from a partner who does not have to sell, the firm sets out how it works, what fits and what does not.
How we work with founders and owners