Arts Alliance Ventures

Arts Alliance Ventures takes an active role in the companies it backs. It works with founders to turn an idea into a new product and then scale it as a separate business.

What Arts Alliance Ventures does

• Early-stage capital and time: invests once founders have spotted a problem and built at least a prototype.
• Interim management: team members may step in as finance chief, head of product or legal counsel.
• Recruitment: helps find key people for a founding team.
• Strategy and board seats: contributes to brand development and joins the board of directors.

Who it serves

Founders in the early stages of a venture. The firm takes on only a handful of projects at a time and is not tied to fixed fund lifetimes, so it can back companies for the long term.

Key facts

• Portfolio examples: Garden Studios, Airly, EcoOnline, SwiftComply, Park Circus, MetFilm and Kebony
• Sectors seen in the portfolio: film production, air quality monitoring, workplace safety software and environmental compliance