Scalar Gauge Fund focuses on high quality companies with strong moats across a select subset of industries. The fund seeks to identify an asset’s intrinsic value by leveraging prior experiences in private markets. The team develops a deep understanding of a company’s operational dynamics to identify what is changing within a company, industry segment, or competitive landscape. Diligence is conducted through rate-of-change analysis and a methodical approach to collecting and analyzing primary data, both qualitative and quantitative.
Scalar Gauge Fund focuses on high quality companies with strong moats across a select subset of industries. The fund seeks to identify an asset’s intrinsic value by leveraging prior experiences in private markets. The team develops a deep understanding of a company’s operational dynamics to identify what is changing within a company, industry segment, or competitive landscape. Diligence is conducted through rate-of-change analysis and a methodical approach to collecting and analyzing primary data, both qualitative and quantitative.
We identify intrinsic worth
We understand what a private equity firm or an acquirer would pay
based on specific sub-sector’s intrinsic knowledge
We think as private equity owners and use proprietary valuation
methodologies and appropriate capital structures to assess what the
companies are worth
We analyze rate of change
To implement our primary strategy, our diligence process focuses on rate-of-change
Differentiation
Our diligence process ensures we capture ‘rate-of-change’
We dig deeper into fundamentals to understand second order derivatives around growth, margins, and other operating parameters
The companies we target are typically undergoing significant transitions which are difficult to decipher. Our private equity style diligence style focuses on customers, partners, and value chain discussion to ensure that there is positive rate of change.
Our focus on identifying the rate of change ensures the asset will stabilize or reaccelerate, thereby dramatically increasing the potential terminal value to an acquirer in the form of a growth asset.
Our team and internal processes are setup to collect data and analyze data appropriately to quantify that rate-of-change.
We Collect and Analyze Proprietary Data
This helps us avoid value traps and enables us to identify any issues or inflection points that the company or the industry is facing
We Focus Only on What We Know
We focus only on a selected set of companies or industry clusters. We deeply understand the operational side of our companies and figure out what is changing and why it’s changing.
Unique experience spanning technology, operations, and investing across growth stages & capital structures with decades of experience helping improve operating performance, conducting due diligence, and assessing trends within the broader technology industry.
Unique experience spanning technology, operations, and investing across growth stages & capital structures with decades of experience helping improve operating performance, conducting due diligence, and assessing trends within the broader technology industry