Rose Park Advisors

Rose Park Advisors, LLC is an investment firm founded with co-founder Clay Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor known for his work on disruptive innovation. The firm draws on frameworks from that research, aiming to understand why established companies succeed or fail and when new market entrants are likely to gain ground. It describes its approach as applying academically derived frameworks in a similar way to how physical theories explain natural systems, using them to assess the likely direction of businesses and markets. The firm was an early investor in BioLite, a company operating in previously un-electrified parts of Africa, and has continued as a capital and strategic partner to that business. Rose Park's activities include supporting portfolio companies and entrepreneurs alongside its investment decisions.