Foundry Capital · The Investment Arm

We back the industries that software forgot.

Cash flow from the flagship is forged into the next vertical. Foundry Capital invests on the Foundry's own terms — patient, profitable, and led by operators who have done the work, not just modeled it.

Talk with us Our principles

Operator-led · Albuquerque, NMCash-flow native · No exit clock

The Model

We don't deploy a fund. We forge companies — and hold them.

The flagship earns. The cash compounds into the next operator-led vertical. The patent estate carries across all of them. It is a holding company that invests, not a fund that exits.

An investment arm with an operator's instincts.

Most capital arrives with a thesis and a timeline. We arrive with a workbench. Because Dominus Foundry runs Forge every day, we know what it takes to turn a broken, paper-run industry into software that earns — and we back founders doing exactly that.

We are not looking for the next thing everyone is chasing. We are looking for the trades, the field services, the physical-world businesses that the platforms wrote off as too small or too hard. That is precisely where durable companies are forged.

How we invest.

Four principles

01Operator-ownedWe only back what we would be willing to run ourselves — and often have.

02Vertical-firstSoftware for the industries the platforms skipped, not another horizontal tool.

03Compounding IPEvery venture plugs into one shared patent estate. The moat grows with each build.

04Cash-flow nativeBuilt to profit, not to raise. No exit clock, no outside mandate.

What we look for

Five things, before anything else.

An operator at the helmSomeone who has done the work, carried the pager, and felt the broken process firsthand.

A vertical the platforms skippedFragmented, unglamorous industries that run the physical world and were left on spreadsheets.

Software as the wedgeA product that becomes the system of record — not a feature bolted onto someone else's.

A reason it compoundsData, distribution, or IP that makes year five far harder to replicate than year one.

Real economicsCash flow today or an honest, near line of sight to it. We forge durable, not hypothetical.

How we partner.

From first call to long hold

01We listenA real conversation with the people doing the work — no deck theater, no process gauntlet.

02We diligence as operatorsWe pressure-test the model the way someone who has to run it would, not from a spreadsheet.

03We forgeCapital, plus access to Hyperion, the Forge playbook, and a team that has shipped to the trades.

04We holdNo countdown to a sale. We partner for the long build and steward it like our own name is on it — because it is.

Exit Clocks

Shared Patent Estate

100%

Operator-Led

∞

Time Horizon

Fide et Familia

Building in a forgotten vertical?

If you're an operator turning a physical-world industry into software, we want to hear from you. Real conversation, fast answer, no process theater.

Email Foundry Capital Call (866) 710-3313

(866) 710-3313 · foundry@dominusfoundry.com