Why Partnership is an Endeavor Cornerstone
At Endeavor, transparency, flexibility, and alignment of all stakeholders is a prime guiding principle. We know that a high performing team that respects and trusts one another will outperform on every dimension. And it’s more fun! Achieving this level success is why we have made partnering the primary focus in the way we build companies.
We seek out and invest/partner in companies capable of delivering exemplary mission-focused, high-end, tech-enabled services, products, and solutions. These companies possess the ability to accelerate the commercialization and adoption of technologies that enable, form, and protect National Security and safeguard critical infrastructure.
These companies and their leaders are very good at what they do. These companies are also at a turning point. They are looking for a partner for a reason. Sometimes they feel they have hit a ceiling and need help breaking through, or often the leadership team itself has hit a wall with growth. Maybe you just want to reach higher but faster than you can organically. Maybe it’s time to take some chips off the table while protecting the long-term upside. In all these cases, you have a great company but you want a partner to help you go further. At Endeavor, this is the type of partner we are most excited about.
Every good partnership is about how the individual people make each other better. What are the strengths that can be reinforced? What gaps can be filled? What are the previous roles of leaders and will that change? How can Endeavor facilitate that growth or smooth out that change?
Sometimes we find founders who are looking to level up and practice their talents at a higher degree, in a bigger enterprise. We have the expertise on our team to help coach and mentor those leaders to achieve those greater levels.
Or sometimes we find founders who are looking to shed some of the more mundane leadership tasks that a CEO faces everyday to focus more on the things they love. Often that means renewed focus on their technology history or perhaps a concentration on the customer relationships that helped shape their company originally.
The Endeavor team is uniquely positioned to collaborate on either of these goals. We have prior CEOs to mentor a “leveling up” or current CEOs ready to step in and help oversee the next phase of growth. We are not a cookie cutter organization. We adapt and evolve with you.
Our partnership will shine in corporate strategy as well.
If your current company has been trying without much success to get into a certain customer or mission area, it is likely our extended team has the reach and respect to open up those doors.
If there are complementary technologies or services that would help raise the organization to new levels, our team has great expertise in collaborating with you on investing in or acquiring companies that can bring that to the table.
If growth has caused your business systems to begin to crumble under the size, our team has tremendous experience professionalizing and updating these systems and processes to allow for growth, rather than hinder it.
This potential list can go on and on. The bottom line is that we are a great partner. Together, we will chart out a path that takes account of our strengths, our needs, our people and where you think we should go with this next phase. Of course, we have many of our own ideas on that too. We’ll bring those ideas to the table and together, build the best plan to take this company to a whole new level.
Our team is composed of mission experts that have successfully created, operated, and sold businesses and has led large security, and technology-focused operations in the IC, DoD, and industry. We work as an extension of the management teams that we choose to back. Get to know us. You can dive a bit deeper into our backgrounds HERE. We’re always happy to meet with you in person too. We think you’ll appreciate our passion for the mission and see your own in it.
The Endeavor investment model is partnership-centric, operations-driven, and capabilities/mission-focused.
