Investment Selection
The AEGIS journey begins with the identification and review of new opportunities through a rigorous due diligence process that includes understanding, analyzing, and committing to the investment opportunity. The process will include data collection and review of strategic fit; preliminary market, competitor, and financial analyses; and meetings with entrepreneurial leaders and their teams to review the vision, plans, and budgets for each investment opportunity.
Incubating and Innovating
The AEGIS Lab is available to all selected teams, where they may continue to incubate and innovate in a supported environment with direct access to others in our innovation community, access to experts and industry leaders, and access to shared service resources to include physical or virtual presence in our AEGIS facilities in the heart of our nation’s capital. Beyond expertise and resources, the AEGIS Lab provides opportunities for direct collaboration with other entrepreneurs.
Access to Capital
The AEGIS Fund is a social impact investment fund with the mission to make intelligent capital allocations across the entire AEGIS portfolio of investment opportunities to support the AEGIS projects and teams that are most likely to meet triple bottom line (social, environmental, and financial) goals to create business value. The AEGIS Fund will provide early stage financing to fully develop operating models and begin business activities at scale.
Testing and Branding
The AEGIS Institute provides a forum to test and brand new products and services with safe but informed target audiences. Our projects and teams will participate in regular convenings that bring industry leaders and experts together to provide learning and development opportunities, as well as opportunities to practice pitch presentations to seasoned funding leaders who may serve as corporate mentors and advisors.
Launching and Scaling
The final stage of the AEGIS journey is the planning and launch of our most promising projects and teams, to include assistance with venture and mezzanine financing, expansion of operating models, linkages to industry resources and partners, and other actions designed to operationalize, monetize, and ensure ongoing future success. AEGIS Charities may also provide supplemental funding support for those ventures that are primarily focused on social or environmental goals.