01 DIRECT
We write the cheque.
Pre-seed through pre-IPO. No committee. No quarterly review. When we are in, we are in.
EST. MCMXX · SECOND CENTURY
TorkianNetwork.
We back. We build. We open doors. Or we close them.
A private investment network in its second century. Direct capital. On-call engineering. Access. For technology that matters, and for people we know.
We are not a fund.
We are a network.
We deploy our own capital, on our own timeline, into technology and into the people who build it. Sometimes directly. Sometimes through funds we back. And sometimes quietly, when one of our own asks.
In its second century.
We began with retail. Small shops. Merchant houses. Long before the markets had a name for it, we wrote our first cheques to the people who served their neighbours by morning and balanced their books at night.
The forms have changed. Cargo. Catalogue. Circuit. Code. The discipline has not.
Four generations have done the same work: find the people who will define a market before the market notices, and stand behind them long enough to see it happen.
What the family has always held.
Outside technology, the network still keeps the real property our family has carried for generations. Buildings. Land. Mercantile interests that connect us to where we began. These are not investments. They are roots.
The property is held by a blind trust. We do not direct it. We do not see its daily movements.
The arrangement is deliberate. It keeps the investment work free of any conflict. It keeps the patrimony intact across the family, across the generations, without interference from any one of us.
Note. A blind trust is a legal arrangement in which independent trustees hold and manage assets without the knowledge or direction of the beneficiaries. It removes the possibility of conflicts of interest, eliminates the appearance of front-running, and preserves continuity of holdings beyond any single principal.
02 FUND
We back the funds we trust.
Limited positions in vehicles run by people inside the network. Where our own are operating, our capital is too.
03 PASSION
We back our own.
Quiet capital for projects led by people in the network. Side bets. One-offs. The things that matter.
I
Capital
Patient. Decisive. From the first dollar a founder is paid through the last private round before the public market.
II
Engineering
Operators on call. Architecture, infrastructure, hiring, code. Real engineers, not advisory titles.
III
Access
Doors that the rest of the market does not knock on. Opened for the companies we believe in.
- 01Artificial intelligence.
- 02Financial infrastructure.
- 03Healthcare & biotechnology.
- 04Enterprise software.
RealisedCapital returned. Position closed.
N = 02- ElemicaIndustrial softwareAcquired
- LyftMobilityPublic · NASDAQ
ActiveHeld. Details on request.
N = 05- ElemicaIndustrial softwareRe-invested · Held
- CertvoltBattery technologyHeld
- DentoboardHigher educationHeld
- OrbgroupBroadcasting & digital marketingHeld
- NuromindArtificial intelligenceHeld
Pre-IPOLate-stage private. Open positions.
N = 02- SpaceXAerospaceLate-stage
- xAIArtificial intelligenceLate-stage
If you are building something
we should know about,
write to us.
- 01
Be brief.
One page. What you are building. Who it is for. Why now.
- 02
Be precise.
Numbers if you have them. Qualitative truth if you do not. No theatre.
- 03
Be ready.
If we answer, we will move quickly. Be in a position to do the same.
Address your letter toproposals@torkian.net
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