The Cava Advantage

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

We’ve been in your shoes! 

We believe the best advice entrepreneurs can get comes from entrepreneurs themselves. Our Team and members of the Cava Advisory Network are a unique combination of seasoned investors and entrepreneurs who know what it’s like to wake up at 2AM worried about making payroll. We understand the important details and have learned from our past endeavors so you can benefit.

We are very flexible!

Because of our size and approach, we treat Cava as a start-up. Each of our partners and advisors play multiple roles and the entire team collaborates during and after the funding process. This approach creates a sense of familiarity, access and allows us to leverage our skills and lessons learned.

Active Venture Investing is a better model! 

We offer substantial value beyond capital. Utilizing our AVI Methodology, with the help of the Cava Advisory Network, we bring the people, processes, and connections required to help every investment succeed.

Laser focus! 

Our approach has been purpose built to work with one company at a time, engaging in only 3 to 5 deals per year, enabling us to be truly hands-on investors. We only invest in what we know best, using our experience to add more value to our entrepreneurs.

Great relationships!  

Providing truly Smart Capital, our relationships with seed, later stage venture firms, private equity groups and many fortune 1000 companies allow us to share services and best practices with our entrepreneurs, as well as offering potential access to later stage growth financing and increased exit opportunities.

We are committed! 

Our goal for each portfolio company is to lead or co-lead the investment and spend substantial time and energy to each. We reserve sufficient capital for follow on rounds, assuming they are needed and milestones have been met.