We build and back companies defined by American ideals and a positive national vision.

We explicitly oppose DEI/ESG and the bureaucratization of American business culture.

We promote a culture of entrepreneurship and excellence, betting on great companies, products, and customers disfavored by corrosive ideologies.

Venture is about building the future.

This may contribute to the perception that the venture and startup space has become particularly “politicized.” But this is not really a choice: entrepreneurs do not just agnostically respond to market signals, or even just improve efficiency of a mature product. They come up with something new that they believe the world needs and, in a sense, will it into existence.

At least in many cases, the question of what to build is irreducibly political.

Facebook's mission was to "make the world more open and connected." This is a far cry from "build and sell widgets," and reflects an inherently political vision for how Mark Zuckerberg hoped to make (or at least help) people organize themselves. But even selling a new widget may have significant political impact: a proliferation of a new tool can have cascading effects that reshape industries and even societies.

A founder's belief about the world shapes what he bets on and builds—and thus the world we live in. A founder who holds a pessimistic view of human capability might build a software tool to micromanage many aspects of a team's work (much as Taylorism did the same in factories a century ago); even if his assumptions prove incorrect, the tool may nevertheless move organizational practices in this direction. Likewise, a tool designed to empower a particular type of worker could enhance the productivity of that role and drive a virtuous cycle in which more capable people pursue it, more tools are built for them, and so on.

Today, a left-wing ideology attacks natural distinctions, traditional norms, and our nation’s heritage. It is profoundly anti-human, eroding the very foundations of human excellence and undermining entrepreneurial initiative and economic success throughout our society. This ideology is pervasive: culture, politics, and certainly business—including the startup and venture capital space. Founders and investors are increasingly pressured to conform to its demands.

Yet the American spirit remains strong. Entrepreneurs continue to invest enormous effort in ambitious projects. In the face of the dominant corporate ideology, many pursue ideas and technologies designed to free us from censorship and bureaucracy. Many more simply seek to build great things—and gravitate to communities that share their aspirations.

Our work is inherently political. In everything from the network technologies that shape our digital environment to the marketing messages that influence our aspirations, Americans are hungry for options that reflect our ideals and inspire our efforts. With political divisions permeating society, and most concepts of "progress" shaped by the left, our goal, through venture, is to help define and realize a distinct positive vision.

Our goal is to define and realize a distinct positive vision for America. Much of this is yet to be determined—the product of future entrepreneurial innovation and prudent action. But we are also anchored to a set of ideals:

• Pro-human: we believe people are unique and made in the image of God, as men and women, and meant to exercise dominion over this world; we reject trans-humanism and all other anti-human ideologies.
• Pro-technology: technology is a form of human creative output, and when directed to good ends can be a powerful tool for good and for dominion over the earth.
• Pro-civilization: family + virtue + great achievement combine as building blocks of civilization that allow people to live well; we reject leveling ideologies that seek to impose false concepts of equality and destroy all unchosen duties.
• Pro-American: our heritage, culture, and political and legal traditions contain many good things worth celebrating and preserving; we should particularly seek the good of fellow American.
• Pro-Christendom: we seek to shape institutions with Christian norms and orient them toward a Christian vision of life, of society, and of the good.

We embrace a vitality, reflecting God’s design and aiming for God’s kingdom, that animates society from the family to the economy to the culture and civilization.

These ideals will shape our efforts and guide our decisions. The ventures that we back will reflect and build on some or all of these ideals to produce a fuller vision for our movement.

Our ideals serve primarily to anchor, not to exclude. We are open to partnering with a wide range of people who are willing to support our ventures and accept our commitment to these ideals, though they may diverge on some issues.

As we pursue this vision, we face not only the challenges inherent in any entrepreneurial endeavor, but a totalitarian effort by the left to capture institutions across our society and use their power against dissenters.

We are affirmatively challenging this campaign with concrete action. Through our venture efforts, we are seeking to build businesses not subject to their censorship, alternative infrastructure in key chokepoints, and tools and networks to connect aligned employers and employees and clients and vendors. We are also directly attacking the left's efforts by rejecting their taboos and doing business with people they tell us we must ostracize.

To succeed—to challenge the left’s totalitarian agenda and to realize our vision—we must build a large economic coalition. We recognize that even on the right values and beliefs vary widely. Because the institutional conservative movement has for so long been backward-looking and sidestepped foundational questions, many are only beginning to consider such questions. In light of this debate, we are not shy about our values. Our goal is to draw as many people as possible to our vision, and to ventures that advance these ideals.

As we pursue partnerships, our goals are threefold:

• Build successful businesses by working with knowledgeable, insightful, and capable people.
• Reach a wide range of people willing to do business with us, and build into a viable alternative economic coalition.
• Shape this into a deeper movement by drawing the coalition toward our comprehensive positive vision.

Diverse values and contests over vision will remain for some time on the right. Our own views will no doubt evolve on some subjects. But we believe that our ventures advance visions that will be attractive across the right and to Americans more broadly, and that their success will help draw both our movement and our nation toward the ideals articulated here.