Tenth Square Investment

Most investors meet a company on the day it lists, at a price set by a crowd. We would rather meet it earlier, at a price set by arithmetic, and we put our own capital in alongside the partners who join us.

The mandate

Tenth Square Investment is where investors partner with the group in the primary market: capital that goes into a business itself rather than to a seller on the exchange. These are the opportunities our valuation and research desks have already done the work on: companies raising capital directly, before or alongside a listing.

We are not a fund. We do not pool your money, manage it for you, or hold it. Each investor invests in their own name and makes their own decision. What we bring is the work, the valuation, the forensics and the industry read, and our own capital into the same opportunities, on the same terms.

We will not bring you anything we have not valued ourselves, and would not own ourselves.

What we look for

  • A business we can value. If we cannot model how it earns, we pass. There is no shame in the too-hard pile.
  • Accounts we believe. Every candidate goes through the same earnings-quality screens as our published research. Flattered numbers end the conversation.
  • Promoters we can read. Track record, related-party behaviour, and what they have done with minority shareholders before.
  • A price with a margin of safety. The entry price has to be wrong in our favour by enough that we can be somewhat wrong and still do well.
  • Time to be patient. Primary-market positions are illiquid until they are not. Capital that may be needed next year does not belong here.

How it works

Register your interest

Tell us who you are, the scale you invest at, and what you are looking for. No commitment, and nothing to sign.

We talk

A conversation about your horizon, your risk appetite, and whether this kind of investing suits you at all. Sometimes the honest answer is that it does not.

You see the work

When an opportunity fits, you get the whole file: the valuation with its assumptions, the research, the risks we know about, and the price we think is right.

You decide, independently

You invest in your own name, on your own judgment, or you decline. We would rather you say no than say yes for the wrong reason.

We are in it with you

The group commits its own capital to the same opportunities. Our incentive is yours: be right about the business, and be patient.

Register your interest

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How the partnership works

Plainly, so there is no confusion: when you invest alongside us, you invest in your own name. We do not pool investor funds and we do not take custody of anyone's cash or shares. Nothing on this page is an offer or a solicitation to buy any security, and no return is promised. Any investment you make is your own decision, at your own risk, and you should take independent legal, tax and financial advice suited to your circumstances before making it. Where we work together, it is under a written agreement and on terms agreed in advance.

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