Declaration Partners

What is Declaration Partners?

Declaration Partners is an investment firm with a focus on providing flexible investment strategies and fostering growth opportunities for long-term investors, stemming from its origins as a family office. The fund has a broad interest in various sectors, notably including FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptos, Gaming, eSports, and initiatives oriented towards women.

They support businesses across different stages, with their investment brackets ranging from a minimum of $2,000,000 to a maximum of $50,000,000, and exhibit a particular affinity for investments around their sweet spot of $20,000,000. Specializing in Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds, Declaration Partners is dedicated to direct investments especially in the technology sector. Their investment philosophy is grounded in the family office heritage of private equity veteran and philanthropist David M.

Rubenstein, who plays a pivotal role as the firm's largest investor and a natural source of insights and networking. Declaration Partners has a multifaceted strategy that encompasses Tactical Growth, Real Estate, GP Solutions, and other opportunistic approaches, seeking to partner with entrepreneurs, operators, and fellow investors to generate what they consider the 'next generation' of value.

They place a strong emphasis on long-term partnership alignments and possess over 200 years of combined institutional investment experience, with more than $2 Billion AUM as of March 2024. The firm capitalizes on their family heritage to maintain an entrepreneurial mindset, investment flexibility, and a focus on maximizing value creation.

Declaration Partners’ team leverages its profound sub-sector expertise, bolstered by a substantial institutional investment infrastructure. Furthermore, their extensive global network of entrepreneurs, executive relationships, and capital markets participants serves as a backbone for their access and reach.

At the foundation of their approach is a propensity to build lasting partnerships with founders, family owners, management teams, and co-investors, prioritizing reputation and integrity.

What they say:

We are an investment management organization.

What we look for: We invest directly in companies.