Building Strong Investments Using Well-Structured Credit
Founded in 2019, LAGO stands at the forefront of growth-focused private credit investing. We are dedicated to achieving downside-protected, premium income returns, regardless of current market conditions.
The Firm
What We Build
We give institutional and individual investors early access to companies that will redefine the future by providing today's founders and innovators with the capital they need to grow their businesses into tomorrow's earnings powerhouses.
Optimized performance
Through a rigorous selection process, we back exceptional companies with differentiated capital, seeking to deliver consistent results that can outperform public market alternatives for institutional and individual investors.
Growing businesses
With an approach that enables growing companies to build value rather than extract it, as many of our competitors do, we help innovators scale their businesses for sustainable success.
The human element
We enable curious, analytical professionals with a knack and affection for identifying and nurturing emerging companies into industry leaders to build lasting careers and shape the future for our founders and investors.
LAGO Clients
To deliver premium total returns, we dig deep into potential portfolio companies before committing any capital, seeking high-growers with the potential to be their next industry's high-performers. We then work with each founder to construct a capital financing structure that will strengthen the company's balance sheet and lower the financial risk to future investors while optimizing their returns.
Our various funds offer access to early-growth stage private market businesses. Our selection process is data-driven—not AI-generated. It is based on a deep dive into the management style, market potential and financial criteria that we associate with companies that will be at the forefront of tomorrow's economy. It's an approach that seeks to deliver optimized returns at the lowest possible risk profile.
The companies we work with gain access to private capital through our partnerships with institutions and individuals who seek to make investments in dynamic, non-public companies at minimal risk but offer the potential for significant and sustainable returns. Once selected for inclusion in our portfolio, we support these businesses with capital financing structures that will benefit investors and founders without leveraging tomorrow's growth for a quick investment return today.
LAGO Values
Our Strong Commitment To Integrity
We are committed to bringing INTEGRITY to our actions, decisions, and relationships because it is the right thing to do—and the industry reputation we want to own.
Our Shared Curiosity
Our shared CURIOSITY about what inspires companies and innovators drives us to identify developing trends, emerging industries, and innovators who would most benefit from our capital as they lead us to what comes next.
Our Collective Rigor
We rely on our collective RIGOR in terms of analysis, research, internal debate, and underwriting, not algorithms, to choose our portfolio of low risk (with potentially high-reward) companies.
A Culture of Collaboration
We aspire to sustain a CULTURE of collaboration, mutual respect, and diverse expertise to deliver on the performance expectations of investors while helping corporate founders and entrepreneurs achieve their dreams.
United In Our Pursuit to Outperform
We are united by the pursuit of outperformance built on our HIGH EXPECTATIONS for what we ultimately deliver to our investors.
