Why Us?
Intelligent Capital’s two founders, Chris Augur and Rick Marshall were active limited partners in a Silicon Valley based venture capital fund during the 1990’s. They saw a pattern develop with a certain class of companies in the portfolio, namely those which had developed compelling technology solving real-world problems but not yet significant revenue. In nearly all of these cases, the exits were poorly handled by traditional advisors which placed undue emphasis on financial results and projections, and neglected the qualitative leverage provided by the underlying technology and team. This experience led them to form Intelligent Capital in 1998.
Since that time, we have worked for client companies across the information and communications technology landscape, in software, semiconductors, networking, security, capital equipment, wireless, and other related domains. We have successfully completed transactions with buyers in the US, in Europe, and Asia, including Google, Intel, Oracle, ARM, Logitech, Symantec, Seiko Epson, Gemalto, and a range of other tier-1 companies. Realized transaction valuations have ranged to 15x money invested for clients with little or no revenue and up to 20x trailing revenue for those with meaningful revenue.
We focus our energy about 50/50 between the Nordic region and the Western US. We look for clients with highly differentiated technology and a world class development team who have validated their technology with customers or partners, and engage deeply with them to secure the best-use partner for their solution.