Southern Equity
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Entrepreneurial Investors
Southern Equity is a global investment firm designed to serve the interests of strategic, long-term investors. We are defined by our decades of experience investing alongside our partners, by our ability to leverage both strategic and flexible capital, and by our collective operational expertise.
Relationship Builders
We are a hyper-connected, people-first organization focused on delivering opportunities and returns that align with our partners’ interests.
Thematic Investors
We are thematic investors, embracing the realities of the world and zeroing in on the niche opportunities that we believe can ignite progress and growth.
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AI is real
Artificial intelligence is weaving itself into the fabric of everyday life at a rate that has made it integral to innovation across all levels of every industry — even industries which do not yet exist. While AI’s rise has been decades in the making, the investors and operators of today are uniquely positioned to experience the returns on this unprecedented growth.
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Data is the new gold
Every day 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created – 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years. This data is the input for unlimited business applications and use cases. We are huge fans of businesses that generate proprietary data.
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Automation Ignites
legacy industries
Enterprises in the logistics, infrastructure, and manufacturing industries are the bedrock of economies and ripe for disruption from innovation. We invest in automation that reinvigorates our world’s economic bedrock by leveraging revolutionary technologies that create entirely new jobs and spark industry-level growth.
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Decentralized computing will win
Our vision for decentralization sees beyond hype-driven use cases. From the beginning, we have understood the power of decentralization: beyond computing, beyond the blockchain, and into economic models at the heart of how business gets done.
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Finance is consumer-driven
Banking, lending, payments, and insurance are all first and foremost consumer driven. We have consistently been active investors in markets that are consumer-driven and we believe users will continue to demand more and more innovation from finance companies.
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Energy is the
heartbeat of innovation
Raw materials and renewable resources power every aspect of our economies. This makes solving the future of global energy and material resources both a challenge and an opportunity. We are driving toward new ways of using material resources to maximize energy that is more efficient, cleaner, and renewable. Understanding this enables our team to identify innovations that maximize efficient resource use for generations to come.
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Our Firm
We are a dynamic group of close-knit, diverse investors who never stopped being operators, visionaries, and entrepreneurs, united behind a bold vision of what’s possible.
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When a faulty CrowdStrike update brought down airports, 911 call centers and hospitals last month, it showed how a defective update could impact critical infrastructure.
