Opportunity Manifesto Portfolio Team Summit

Backing the builders of tomorrow's companies

Vault Fund invests in company-building firms that systematically create new companies — maximizing upside through a repeatable, risk-managed playbook.

The Opportunity

A differentiated edge in private markets

Company-building firms span private equity and venture capital — including venture studios, roll-up platforms, and serial entrepreneurs. Their repeatable playbooks create structural advantages that drive faster, higher returns.

Repeatable build process
Efficiencies from a tested, systematic playbook reduce friction at every stage.
Rigorous early testing
Ideas are stress-tested before significant capital is deployed.
Capital efficient ownership
Lower cost basis from day zero reduces entry risk significantly.
Minimized downside
Concentrated portfolio construction limits capital loss exposure.
Reduced fee exposure
Structural alignment lowers total fee drag versus traditional alternatives.
Shared services advantage
Portfolio companies benefit from centralized resources and emerging talent networks.
Manifesto

A champion of visionary founders

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We empower founders to have a greater impact. Through building rigorously tested solutions to today's challenges, we help visionary leaders shape the world around them.
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We believe talent comes in all shapes and sizes — regardless of race, gender, age, or origin. The best ideas don't come from one place.
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Company builders create a step change to traditional private market investing. We're not afraid to buck the trend to seek better returns — because we know the strength of a repeatable playbook.
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The best time to invest is on Day Zero. Instead of following the money, we become the money. We seek great ideas today to create the major companies of tomorrow.
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We believe the company building model can help solve humanity's biggest problems. That conviction drives every investment decision we make.
Portfolio

Ground zero for tomorrow's game changers

Team
Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson
Founding Partner

Sarah has over 12 years of private equity and banking experience and has been investing in early-stage ventures for more than eight years. Prior to founding Vault Fund, Sarah was the Fund Manager at The Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund — a strategic fund of funds with more than $100M in AUM, investing in early-stage venture capital funds across the United States.

Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund investors include P&G, Kroger, Great American Financial, Smuckers, Western Southern, along with other large corporations. The Fund invests primarily to give its member corporations access to innovation. Sarah's Cintrifuse investments included Atlas, Atomic, Greycroft, Lerer, Upfront, Madrona, and Revolution Ventures.

Prior to her role at Cintrifuse, Sarah worked with early-stage venture funds and technology companies as Vice President at JP Morgan in San Francisco, and as an investment banker at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

Sarah earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida, where she was a pole vaulter on the Women's Track and Field team, and her MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Francisco Gomez
Francisco Gomez
Partner

Francisco is a Partner at Vault Fund, focused on pipeline development, diligence, and regularly working with our underlying portfolio of company creation funds.

Prior to joining Vault Fund, Francisco was a Director at Allocate, a digital platform for private alternatives, where he worked closely with fund managers across the different stages of venture. Francisco and Sarah also worked together at Cintrifuse, where he focused on early-stage venture. During his time as an allocator, he has met with 400+ funds across the country and led diligence on 40+ investments.

In prior roles, Francisco worked in Finance at Fifth Third Bank and Schneider Electric where he covered Corporate Treasury and FP&A.

Francisco earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance and a minor in Spanish Language and Culture from Miami University.

Summit

Updated Terminology: Company Creation Funds

Our long term vision at Vault Fund is to be more than just a fund but to redefine how world changing innovation is brought to life. As a first in class platform, we’ve started using the term “company creation fund” instead of “venture studio” to more accurately describe our investment strategy. Our framework for investment requires that the entity we invest in must be a founder/co-founder of the companies in their portfolio. This is a term many biotech funds use to describe their work creating companies around new IP and we have adopted it as we feel it more accurately describes our investment requirements. 

We’ve found that the term “venture studio” is too ambiguous and means different things to different people. In fact, we’ve seen creative agencies and accelerators describe themselves as venture studios, despite not being company founders and in some cases not even taking equity for their involvement in the companies. This is confusing to both the LPs and the company creation fund partners we speak with regularly. 

This distinction is critical because we view the founding role our partners take as an important factor in driving the results we expect. These entities must have ground-level, founding ownership stakes. Company creation funds are entities that create their own portfolio of companies with founding roles at entry level valuations backed by resources and processes to go-to-market at faster speeds. Company creation funds by definition are designed to drive higher potential returns, faster just like we are.

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