Empiricus Capital

What is Empiricus Capital?

Empiricus Capital is a family office headquartered in New York, New York, United States, which predominantly focuses on early-stage investments in startups. These startups are engaged in applying exponential technology to scalable business models, with the potential to make a significant social impact.

Empiricus Capital aims to stay perpetually engaged in investment opportunities positioned at the frontier of alternative investment, continuously incorporating frontier technology and concepts to enhance their investment research approach and technique. Acknowledging that some investments may be highly experimental, Empiricus is committed to projects that have the capability to produce extraordinary results.

The firm prioritizes sectors where exponential technology intersects with life science and AI to address environmental and public health, education, and socio-economic challenges.

Their healthcare and life science vertical emphasizes precision medicine, nutraceuticals, biologics drug discovery, cancer biomarkers, oncotherapeutic, theranostics, molecular diagnostics, biosensors, and innovative healthcare services and products. In education, Empiricus focuses on technologies that enhance learning, development of educational content via AI, sensor-based learning environment design, and educational data sharing.

For environmental and public health, the firm invests in applications of satellite data to urban pollution monitoring, AI to mitigate infectious disease outbreaks in urban environments, indoor environmental control technology, and technologies fostering social action towards environmental protection and public health.

Additionally, Empiricus invests in consumer brands that are underpinned by strong social and ethical principles, demonstrate potential for high growth in global markets, and possess leadership that sets the highest standards of quality in their respective markets.

Empiricus also tackles sustainable urban development challenges, collaborating with scholars and scientists in prominent innovation centers across Southeast China's Pearl River Delta — the world's largest mega-city as per the World Bank, notable for their tech hubs in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou.

Empiricus invests in startups from these localities that aim to resolve critical urban challenges, supported by offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu.