Royal Street Ventures

Royal Street Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology and technology-enabled startups in undercapitalized markets — particularly the Mountain West, Midwest, and Southeast — where institutional seed capital is rare and the firm's reputation and relationships are strong. The firm looks for 'heads-down dreamers out to change the world': founders who have already built a product and sold it to real, non-familial customers, and are raising $1M–$3M to scale. RSV is a partnership of operators and entrepreneurs who take board or observer seats in over half their portfolio companies, forging deep alliances and providing hands-on operational support alongside capital. Their investment criteria center on tech-enabled, capital-efficient solutions to real-world problems, with potential for 10X returns on high-growth bets and 4X on follow-on investments with clear paths to cash flow breakeven.