Noir Capital — Cinematic Private Equity
Private Equity · Est. 2014

Capital with the patience of cinema.

Noir Capital partners with category-defining companies at the intersection of technology, infrastructure, and capital. We invest with a decade-long horizon and operator conviction.

$4.2B Assets Under Management
23 Portfolio Companies
11 Full Exits
Investment Thesis

We invest where durable infrastructure meets compounding software.

Our thesis is built on three convictions that have guided every check we've written since 2014. We do not chase cycles. We fund the companies that outlast them.

The next decade of value creation will belong to companies that own hard assets and layer software on top of them. Distribution moats are compressing; the durable edge is operational depth. We back founders who build infrastructure the economy depends on — and who refuse to sell it short.

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01

Capital that compounds, not flips

We hold positions for seven to ten years. Our carry is aligned to exit multiples at year nine, not year three. This filters for founders who build for permanence.

02

Operator-led diligence

Every investment partner has built and sold a company. We diligence like operators, not consultants — we read the codebase, walk the warehouse, and call the churned customers.

03

Concentrated, conviction-sized bets

We make four to six new investments per year. A typical check is $50M to $200M of equity. We do not spray capital. We go deep with the few we choose.

Portfolio

Companies we've backed.

A selection of current and realized positions across infrastructure, vertical software, and applied intelligence.

Vertical SaaS

Vellum Systems

Operating system for heavy civil construction firms. Replaces a dozen disconnected tools with one platform spanning estimating, field, and finance.

$140MInvested
2021Lead
Energy Infra

Helix Grid

Distributed battery storage assets across the ISO-NE and PJM markets. Software-defined dispatch optimizes against real-time locational marginal prices.

$210MInvested
2022Lead
Applied AI

Aria Diagnostics

Pathology inference platform deployed in 340 hospital networks. Turns slide review into a software workflow, cutting turnaround time by 60 percent.

$95MInvested
2023Co-lead
Logistics

Meridian Freight

Asset-light freight brokerage with a proprietary routing engine. Owns the relationship layer between 9,000 carriers and the Fortune 500 shipper base.

$175MInvested
2019Lead
Fintech Infra

Settle Clear

Real-time settlement rails for B2B payment networks. Processes $18B annually across 40,000 enterprise accounts. Profitable since 2022.

$120MInvested
2020Lead
Industrial

Kestrel Alloys

Specialty metals processor supplying aerospace and defense primes. Added a predictive maintenance layer that lifted equipment uptime from 82 to 94 percent.

$260MInvested
2018Lead
Track Record

A decade of disciplined returns.

Net IRR and multiples as of Q4 2024, audited by an independent fund administrator. Track record shown across our three flagship funds.

2.7×
Net Multiple · Fund III
24.3%
Net IRR · Since Inception
11
Full Exits
$4.2B
Capital Deployed
Net IRR by Vintage — Noir vs. S&P 500
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Team

Operators who've sat in the seat.

Every investment partner has founded, scaled, and exited a company before joining Noir. We staff boards with people who have carried the P&L.

Adrian Voss

Founding Partner

Founded and sold Meridian Freight (2017, $1.2B). Fifteen years building logistics infrastructure before starting Noir in 2014.

Claire Okafor

Managing Partner

Former COO at a public energy infrastructure firm. Leads the firm's industrial and energy practice. Joined Noir in 2016.

Marcus Lindqvist

Partner · Software

Built and exited two vertical SaaS companies. Leads software diligence and post-investment product strategy across the portfolio.

Priya Raman

Partner · Applied AI

PhD in systems ML, former applied research lead at a frontier AI lab. Drives the firm's thesis on inference infrastructure.

Contact

Start a conversation.

We meet with founders, limited partners, and operators year-round. Tell us what you're building or what you're allocating to.

General Inquiries capital@noircap.com
Founder Submissions deals@noircap.com
Limited Partners lp@noircap.com
Office One Maritime Plaza, San Francisco
Press press@noircap.com
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