Incyte Ventures

Incyte and its professionals have a broad experience working with early stage and venture companies.  Founded in San Francisco in early 2000, Incyte operated near Silicon Valley for almost a decade and completed a number of turnaround investments involving early stage and venture-backed businesses.

Given the availability of additional capital, in 2012, Incyte is expanding its focus to include investments in founder-backed early stage companies seeking an alternative to the formal venture capital control model.  Incyte is interested in partnering with founders as a family office or super angel investor rather than a venture-oriented control investor that often takes over the founder’s early autonomy and vision.

Incyte brings a vast array of experience and knowledge that we believe is attractive to a founder seeking capital from a reliable, trusted financial partner.  Our principals worked for many years in corporate finance at Alex. Brown & Sons, a pre-eminent investment bank for initial public offerings (IPOs) during the 1980s and early 1990s.  Before being acquired by Banker’s Trust in 1997, Alex. Brown was widely recognized to have taken some of the most successful companies public including Microsoft, Oracle and Starbucks, to name a few.  Incyte’s experience in how to finance and grow early stage companies to ultimately go public, to grow organically or to eventually become outstanding sale candidates is a core knowledge that would be of significant value to a founder.

We invite founders and senior management of early stage companies seeking funding to call Incyte and discuss their objectives.  Rather than participate in A, B or C rounds passively, Incyte seeks to partner directly with management and to entirely fund the needs of a founder so that the uncertainty and risks associated with having to go back to the market repeatedly can be avoided, thereby optimizing the fit between growth funding and the company’s prospects and minimizing ownership dilution to the founder(s).

Over the past decade, our past portfolio investments (please see the Portfolio tab) have included the early stage companies eVIN, Inc., based in Annapolis, Maryland; NetForce Inc., based in San Francisco, California;  and Nature Boy and Girl Diapers, based in Seattle, Washington.