If passion drives you, let reason hold the reigns.

We are a small team of ex-private equity, CEOs, marketers, researchers, developers, enthusiasts and friends.

We are obsessed with consumer experiences. The demands and expectations of todays consumers have never been higher, but so are the rewards for exceeding them. We specialize in leveraging our experience to help entrepreneurs bring their businesses to the forefront of the direct-to-consumer landscape. We utilize Fortune 500 type tools to help these businesses quickly harness the consumer loyalty, passion and enthusiasm which started it all in the first place.

We invest in, and consult for these enthusiast brands. Let's talk.

What We Do

We invest our time and our money alongside incredible entrepreneurs to help them build sustainable, market leading enterprises.

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Capital & Liquidity

While not exciting, capital and liquidity is a big part of our job. Taking money off the table for entrepreneurs, or providing growth capital for growing businesses is a key piece of the value equation. Since it's our personal money, we do not take this lightly.

Strategy

Strategy is like a great defensive football team. Totally underappreciated, boring as hell, but wins championships. We're just fine with being boring.

Customer Experience

Investing in customer experience is investing in company culture. If you build a culture where you keep your promises to each other, and you keep your promises to your consumers - then you have built a customer experience that is long-lasting and sustainable.

Web Design and UX

We are specialists in the customer journey. We spend a lot of time, money and effort mapping out this arc and making sure that our online experiences are just as impactful as our offline ones.

Infrastructure and Controls

There is a reason why businesses who do it well stand out. It gives employees the freedom to be independent and self-managed and gives managers the confidence to spend time working on improving, rather than monitoring.

Product Development

Most small companies don't have the budget to create products and convince people of problems that they don't have. We have to be laser-focused on solving real pain points in the consumer journey, while also creating a sense of urgency around solving them.

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Targeted Markets

New Value is aggressively targeting the following categories on a proactive basis. These markets represent areas that we have done significant work and feel that we can add immediate value to most entrepreneurs and their businesses.

SPECIALTY coffee

Since investing in Clive Coffee in 2016, NVC has aggressively pursued specialty coffee. We are actively investing in specialty roasters, espresso service providers and espresso and drip coffee equipment.

DATING & RELATIONSHIPS

We specialize in industries where there is a non-economic passion for the end market. Products and services which defy logical buying patterns. Love might be the least logical enthusiast industry yet, and helping people find it might be our favorite calling.

HUMAN PERFORMANCE

With the rise of Peter Attia, Huberman, and the quant-self industry, we think there are real opportunities in testing and concierge services for elite athletes and performance-minded individuals that will eventually become table stakes.

Our Crew

Adam Raper

Adam has two great loves in his life: working and not working. From rolling up sleeves and doing massive web migrations, to multi-day strategy sessions and jedi-like consumer targeting, you can usually find Adam immersed in a months-long project of some sort. If you can't find him, he's probably outside on his bike, in the water or laughing uncontrollably with his 2 boys.
**Specialties:** Strategy, IT infrastructure, ecommerce, customer experience & loyalty
**Email:** adam (at) newvaluecapital.com

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Paul has been investing for over 30 years, and his experience has spanned both very large businesses (Camelback, Vitamin Shoppe) and very small businesses, (Venom Tactical). On either side of the spectrum, Paul brings financial, strategic and product-oriented savvy that resonates with entrepreneurs. Paul's passions extend from the bike to the plane, to his family and new dog.
**Specialties:** Uncanny calm through virtually every situation. Finance, budgeting and tax strategy. Product development and unrelenting tchotchke ideas.
**Email:** paul (at) newvaluecapital.com

JARED CORNWALL

Jared joined New Value in 2014, first as the website developer for ENVE Composites and then as a full time partner. Is he a nerd? Sure. But he is also the best mix of developer and business-oriented thinker we have ever come across. He works harder than anyone and is a sneaky fast bike rider.
**Specialties:** Getting 3 days worth of work done in 2 hours, web development, design.
**Email:** jared (at) newvaluecapital.com

DaNielle raper

Dani joined New Value in 2018, first as the curator of our drip coffee selection at Clive Coffee, and then later took over as the full time Director of Marketing for that brand. In 2019, She has also added Dynojet to her list of responsibilities - and is currently developing the content marketing plan for that business.
**Specialties:** Ruining people with to-do lists, project planning, SEO, UX and email marketing.
**Email:** dani (at) newvaluecapital.com