ABOUT VQ
We don't just invest
in the future. We have
the vision required to build it.
VQ Capital stands at the forefront of navigating the challenges of the compounding era.
We are explorers, industry catalysts, and proven operators—driven by a relentless curiosity to seek out uncommon opportunities and the operational excellence to create extraordinary outcomes.
We are led by a team of peak-performing leaders who have disrupted industries over the past three decades. Our firm's strength lies in our inspired leadership—empowering every partner and founder to achieve their full potential.
FOUNDERS / MANAGING PARTNERS
Former NextGen renewable MFO lead. Growth Investor at New Vista Capital.
Former CPO of PayPal.
VQ Capital’s collective experience spans from the genesis of the modern Internet, mobile computing, and AI to the highest levels of global commerce and finance.
With Brian Lent, a pioneer who helped incubate Google and built the predictive analytics platform driving over 30% of Amazon.com's revenue, we possess the technical vision to identify and engineer algorithmic scale and intelligence across the value chain.
This expertise is paired with the scaling mastery of John Kim, who has a repeatable playbook for translating technology into exponential enterprise value, proven by his leadership in reinventing Vrbo and driving global product strategy at PayPal.
Together with Praveen Hirsave, a seasoned technologist who built and scaled SaaS, data, and AI offerings across global enterprises like IBM and Expedia, VQ is engineered to identify the gaps within legacy infrastructure and rapidly transform them into high-growth, proprietary engines.
The final pillar of our strategy is our disciplined financial and strategic oversight, led by Yotam Avrahami, whose foundation was forged in military precision, large-scale innovation at Deloitte, high-growth defense deals at New Vista Capital, and multi-billion-dollar investment committee work with Steven Rockefeller and Carl Page. Our team, a combination of visionaries, operators, growth leaders, incisive investors, and futurists, is perfectly positioned to execute our vision in an era of compounding change.
At VQ Capital, we understand the challenges and opportunities of the compounding era. Our experience navigating the gap between AI's promise and its real-world application positions us to guide organizations past the pilot trap and into genuine, transformative change.
We don't just provide capital—we pursue organizations that redefine marketplaces, leveraging our cohesive expertise to unlock deep infrastructure and market reach while building the next generation of wealth and enduring legacies for our partners.
THE MEANING BEHIND THE NAME
Vision Quotient
Vision Quotient (VQ) is the analytical capacity to foresee and capitalize on future market evolution. It is the defining metric for leadership in the compounding era.
In a world where algorithmic change outpaces hardware, traditional foresight fails. VQ is our unique advantage—the structural ability to convert technological change into superior, measurable value.
VQ Capital applies this quotient to private capital through three deliberate actions:
We accurately extrapolate existing trends and data, identifying emergent capabilities—not just fast companies—to position capital ahead of the geometric curve.
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Prediction
Transformation
We actively bridge the gap between an enterprise's current operational state and the AI-forward future, ensuring technology adoption translates into fundamental, measurable re-architecture.
2
We utilize inspired leadership and deep expertise to move beyond incremental growth, empowering founders and teams toward a shared, long-term goal of extraordinary outcomes.
3
Inspiration