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Our portfolio companies enable community ownership and community governance of infrastructure. We focus on problems we understand in communities we know well. We have built substantial relationships in the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and the Gulf South, as well as digital communities which are local by interest, such as small media ecosystems and communities of shared practice.
The platforms we support take many forms, but we find they often engage with cryptoassets which make sophisticated financial tooling available to communities of any size. In order to align investments with community values, we find many structures use collective governance and cooperative economics to direct decision-making.
We are invested in next generation media and internet distribution projects, as well as a deployer of wireless networks. We are actively exploring platforms supporting mutual aid networks, green infrastructure deployment, and coastal modeling. We expect data DAOs, decentralized modeling, and stablecoins to be critical in these efforts.
Do not hurry. Do not rest. We believe that greatness takes time. We do not prescribe growth paths. We optimize for the long run.
Everyone works. We build systems that reward many kinds of work, and we focus on recognizing underappreciated value. We also commit to work alongside our companies. Capital does not confer sacred rights, and we will work to earn the privilege of influence.
The answers are in the place. The seeds of solutions already exist in the people who experience a problem. We map our efforts to a communities' existing assets rather than force it to reconfigure to an outside structure.
Count on us. We aim for relationships of trust and honesty. We have a concentrated portfolio. We try to make clear promises, to which we can and should be held accountable.
John Garry has spent much of his early life exploring community and capital. His paternal grandfather operated a grain elevator for the better part of 20th century, and Garry Elevator seeks to continue a legacy of sophisticated, hyperlocal financial services.
John’s work in endowment management and venture capital has shaped an investment philosophy that emphasizes resilience and relationship over other factors. At the University of Notre Dame, he led the Investment Office’s research into cryptoassets. At High Alpha, he helped to invest in early stage companies and scale the firm’s corporate venture studio arm.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.