While most investors invest in companies, Rugged Elegance invests in people.

We center our efforts on founders & entrepreneurs because we know, from personal experience, that the founder/entrepreneur journey is a lonely and isolating experience that challenges human capacity and courage in the quest to realize a vision.

As grizzled venture-backed founders, we've designed something that we wished that we had back then. Our aim is to make founders and founding teams more resilient, which improves the returns for everyone.

We are especially interested in working with leaders from historically marginalized groups — BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women — to help them to catalyze their access to vital forms of capital which allows them to attain their goal of ‘10xing’ (or more) their positive impact.