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mapleeq.com · Beverly Hills, CA
Private Equity

Private Equity

High-conviction investments alongside exceptional founders and fund managers. Technology, consumer, energy, and frontier sectors — every position sourced through direct, long-standing relationships and underwritten with the same discipline we apply to every real estate acquisition.

Investment Thesis

Access. Conviction. Long Duration.

Our private equity mandate spans the full company lifecycle — early-stage ventures through late-stage growth — across technology, gaming, consumer brands, clean energy, and frontier sectors. Capital is deployed alongside founders and operators we know personally, in situations where our relationships provide genuine access rather than auction-market participation. We do not pursue broadly marketed processes.

01
Relationship-Sourced Deal Flow

A decade and a half of operating across institutional real estate and the broader capital markets has produced a network of founders, fund managers, and strategic partners who surface opportunities before they reach the market. Our deal flow is relationship-sourced, not intermediary-dependent — which means we see the best opportunities when pricing is still rational and access is still selective.

02
Visionary Leadership

We back founders with a demonstrated capacity for unconventional thinking and execution velocity — operators building businesses with large addressable markets, durable competitive moats, and the kind of product-market fit that compounds over time. The quality of leadership is the primary underwriting criterion.

03
Strategic Capital

We are not passive capital. Our operating background in complex, multi-stakeholder real estate transactions gives us a perspective on organizational scaling, capital structure, and operational discipline that is genuinely useful to founders navigating growth. We provide introductions, strategic counsel, and hands-on support at the inflection points that matter most.

04
Cross-Asset Intelligence

Operating an active, directly managed real estate portfolio across two major markets provides a continuous, ground-level read on macro conditions — capital market sentiment, consumer behavior, labor dynamics, and supply-demand fundamentals — that informs the thesis behind every private equity co-investment we make. Cross-asset intelligence is a structural advantage, not a marketing claim.

Sectors

Where We Invest

Technology
AI · Semiconductors · SaaS
Consumer
Brands · Retail · CPG
Energy
Clean Tech · EV · AgTech
Frontier
Quantum · Gaming · Deep Tech
Portfolio

Portfolio Companies

OpenAI
Artificial Intelligence
xAI
Artificial Intelligence
Qualcomm
Semiconductors · Technology
Watt EV
Electric Vehicles · Clean Energy
Quantum Source
Quantum Computing · Deep Tech
AthostX
Technology
Open Evidence
Artificial Intelligence · Healthcare
Sequoia Capital
Venture Capital · Technology
Grove Ventures
Venture Capital · Deep Tech
Lumo
AgTech · Clean Energy
vgames
Gaming · Venture Capital
Flo by Moen
Smart Home · Water Tech
BBQGuys
Consumer · E-Commerce
ZenWTR
Consumer Brands · Beverage
Italian Beauty Lab
Consumer · Beauty