Scale Invest

The leading Irish Investment House focused on Entrepreneurs, Senior Executives, Institutional LPs, the Venture Community and Irish Diaspora. Our mission is to increase the economic value and overall wellbeing of the Island of Ireland by growing our network, enabling deserving investments and delivering superior investment performance. Putting clients and founders at the heart of what we do. Elkstone’s values of Excellence, Entrepreneurship, Empowerment and Alignment are central to our client experience. We take pride in our collective impact. Overview in numbers€100m+ Ireland’s Largest Seed Fund 1000+ Jobs created by our investment 45+ Team of specialists #2 Irish Unicorns backed at seed stage 250+ Clients 3200+ Properties delivered (1200 apartments and 2000 houses) Our ValuesEntrepreneurship: It is our DNA to make things happen when others don’t. We operate with the mind-set of the business owner, relentlessly and proactively executing the next opportunity. Excellence: We strive for the highest level of quality. We are determined in our pursuit of growth through our own self-improvement. This attitude ensures that excellence becomes a habit. Empowerment: We trust & respect each other to get things done. We encourage autonomy. We commit to being accountable for our actions and take responsibility for our work. Alignment: Our strong One Team culture is our greatest asset. We promote alignment, network compounding and clear communication amongst our team and clients, to excel and enjoy creating legacy together. What makes us differentA Window Into and Out of Ireland: We have a strong reputation and influential position in the Irish ecosystem. We’ve become the go-to Partner for strategic local and inbound institutional investors to Ireland. Alignment and Partnership: As a Family Office, we are unconstrained by the limitations of mainstream wealth management platforms. Our ability to support both start-ups and their founders on their personal journey is unique in the market. Our Unique Local & Global Network: Our clients include some of Ireland’s most successful entrepreneurs, operators, and c-suite executives which adds to our intellectual capital and ability to support portfolio companies. As an independent Private Family Office, we are unconstrained by the limitations of mainstream wealth management platforms. Making a Real Impact: Our Venture and Real Estate investments are addressing important economic, social, and environmental issues in Ireland and beyond. We are nurturing a vibrant Irish innovation and startup ecosystem - creating high-quality employment, and recycling capital to seed the next generation. We achieved legislative change for our EIIS Ireland Venture Fund, democratising access to a wider group of potential investors.

We provide capital and strategic partnership to companies and funds led by faith-driven teams that have the potential for outsized returns and impact. We currently have five main practice areas. First, we invest directly in profitable, lower middle market companies with $10 million to $100 million in revenue, and $3 million to $20 million in owner’s earnings. Second, we invest directly in promising, early-stage technology companies across Seed and Series A stages. Third, we invest in publicly-traded companies. Fourth we invest in domestic real estate with a primary focus on value-add strategies. Finally, we use a fund of funds strategy to invest in venture and private equity fund managers through primaries, secondaries, co-investments, and GP stakes. We also offer business consulting services for mature companies looking to forward-steward the business and mission beyond the current generation. We are distinct in our faith-driven approach to investing, our ability to hold investments long term, our willingness to customize solutions to owner needs, and the excellence with which we execute through disciplined strategic, operational, and financial partnership. We exist to love God and love our neighbor through investing.

STRT Holding Zrt is a newly founded evergreen startup investment fund. STRT Holding makes Early & Follow-On investments in startups and acquires selected third-party investment portfolios through share swaps. STRT Holding provides Education & Mentoring & Services tailored to its portfolio companies and entrepreneurship courses to external applicants. STRT Holding will go public on the Xtend Platform of the Budapest Stock Exchange in 2023. The current STRT Holding Zrt portfolio consists of 37 startup investments.

For over a decade, we have been investing in companies and real estate, leveraging our entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to independent decision-making. As an owner-managed family office, we operate exclusively with our own capital, making decisions independently of external parties, investors, or committees. Our entrepreneurial DNA allows us to make swift and decisive decisions, granting us maximum flexibility. Our young and ambitious team shares a unique perspective with the founders we work with, constantly reimagining the status quo. We aim to provide the best possible support to positively impact the long-term success of the ventures we invest in.

JUMP Investors is a Los Angeles-based venture capital and private equity firm that today functions as a family office and investment firm. Since its formation in 1999, JUMP has invested in a variety of real estate companies, private equity funds, hedge funds, and more than 40 early-stage technology companies including Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Avamar Technologies (acquired by EMC), Business.com (acquired by R.H. Donnelley), Community Connect (acquired by Radio One), Google (GOOG), GSX Group (acquired by Open Text) L90 (acquired by Intermix), Postini (acquired by Google), Seagate (STX), UrgentRx, and ViaFone (acquired by Extended Systems).

ISAI gathers more than 300 Tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest capital and experience to enable the advent of new French Tech champions. Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (PriceMinister), Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux (Notus Technologies), Ouriel Ohayon (ZenGo), Stéphane Treppoz (Sarenza) and Christophe Raynaud are at the initiative of this project which aims to establish the most useful, performing and benevolent fund an entrepreneur can wish for. Joined by Jean-David Chamboredon, they federated 300 entrepreneurs that were later joined by family offices and institutional investors. ISAI thus has a sufficient investing and refinancing capacity to support the companies it backs over the long run. Some of the entrepreneurs that the first ISAI fund supported then became investors in subsequent funds. In total, more than €20B of revenue and 70,000 jobs have been created by the companies of our investors-entrepreneurs. The ISAI team and the managers of its portfolio companies can rely on this unparalleled collective experience. With over €500M under management, we wish to select original companies managed by outstanding teams. Remarkable, outstanding, that is the meaning of the Japanese word “ISAI”.