Investment Philosophy

Why Early and Growth Stage
Outlook is committed to making the necessary risks today to ensure that we contribute to the winning companies of tomorrow. By investing in early and growth stage companies, Outlook partners are able to contribute significantly to the long-term success of the company by applying their software industry expertise and offering extended resources.

Why Information Technology and Services
Information technology and services continue to be the catalyst behind rapid growth in productivity and efficiency to global enterprises, and a higher quality of life to consumers. At Outlook Ventures, we're committed to making investments in those technologies and services that have the potential to deliver the greatest value to enterprises and consumers. Within Information Technology, Outlook Ventures has built experience and track record investing in software infrastructure, applications, and services that appeal to enterprises or consumers.

• Business Opportunity: Software has played a key role in delivering creative solutions to everyday problems facing CIOs, small and medium business IT executives and consumers. For enterprises, software provides next-generation applications and infrastructure that shorten the time to market, provide a lower total cost of operations, and empower the enterprise to compete more aggressively in the marketplace. Additionally, software has enabled better, faster, reliable, auditable end-to-end process management. This has helped companies cope much better with increased security needs and new regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley than it would have been possible without software-based processes. For the consumer, software riding on the network provided by the Internet delivers targeted and personalized services. Consumers seek choice, immediacy, reliability, and speed of delivery. New advances in web infrastructure, open systems, web services, and voice-data integration are enabling the next generations of online services in both business and consumer worlds.
  
  Within enterprise and consumer segments, Outlook Ventures looks for the intersections of converging technologies, disruptive business models, and innovative teams to take advantage of opportunities in Information Technology.
   
• Experience: Finally, the professional experience of the combined Outlook Ventures team is in information technology and services, enabling us to rapidly identify high-potential companies and to offer them constructive strategic and operational assistance.

Why Active Investment?
Outlook Ventures participates actively and proactively in the growth of our portfolio companies because this approach has proven to help build lasting value for these companies. Bringing depth of operational expertise and a perspective from working with over 100 privately held companies, our partners' time is exceptionally valuable to the entrepreneurs we work with and accelerates the achievement of their next critical milestones. Successful entrepreneurs selected Outlook Ventures as a partner in large part because of our reputation for providing this kind of active support. Additionally, this approach reduces our investment risk as it serves to increase the market value of our portfolio companies.