Venture Program
UniFirst Ventures fund is focusing on early-stage deep technology and hard-science start-ups. Our team’s experience in engineering and entrepreneurship allows us to operate with high conviction and maintain a concentrated portfolio. We are working closely with universities and other academic partners to identify founders with truly disruptive technologies. Our aim is to follow closely our partner companies and act as shadow co-founders, offering not only financial resources but also strategic support. By leveraging our network of VC and PE funds we also offer our portfolio companies access to an international network and capital markets. While we aim to remain geographically balanced, we strongly believe in a physical presence so we naturally gravitate towards European companies.
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Early Stage
We believe best returns are found in the early stages.
Portfolio Support
We are active investors, supporting our founders along their journey.
Geography
We focus on the European ecosystem.
Select Opportunities
Our extensive network provides bespoke opportunities for our clients, across sectors, stages and geographies.
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FAM Calypso Fund
The FAM Calypso Fund is a long-bias equity long/short strategy enhanced with a bond component. The strategy focuses on investing in high quality U.S. companies and hedging through liquid derivatives. We aim to stay invested long term, whilst minimizing portfolio drawdowns during specific time periods.
FAM US Long Only Fund
The FAM US Long Only Fund is a long-only strategy offering a diversified portfolio of high quality U.S. companies, selected through a quantitative framework coupled with in-house fundamental research. We aim to extract outperformance over the long term through a low turnover.
FAM Swiss Long Only Fund
The FAM Swiss Long Only Fund is a long-only strategy with focus on liquid, small and mid Swiss capitalization companies within diverse industry sectors. Fundamental deep-dive research and a systematic analytical framework are at the core of the investment process.
FAM Alternative Strategies Fund
The FAM Alternative Strategies is a Fund of Liquid Hedge Funds. The strategy seeks to provide long-term capital growth while focusing on low correlation and short-term capital preservation.
HESTIAS ENDOWMENT MODEL
The Hestias Endowment Model is a long-term capital commitment Fund of private markets Funds, offering a single entry point into a diversified portfolio. This Fund invests in a thematic way across private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure. We target GPs with niche strategies across industries and geographies.