A few live bets at the intersection of capital, operators, and AI.

SFV invests in mission-critical small businesses doing necessary work in unsexy industries — and backs the operators acquiring them. The thesis is simple: there are great businesses already cash-flowing, and the next generation of operators can run them better with modern tools.

Insensitivity to market cycles. De-risked, well-known brands. Proprietary deal sourcing. Solid base financials. The possibility of AI-driven, tech-driven transformation of core products or operations. Operators with startup or entrepreneurial DNA.

We're looking for accredited investors with entrepreneurial experience to join our investor-advisor program — align your investing work with your career and help us help operators win.

SMBIN is the syndicate side of the SFV stack — accredited investors writing $50K–$200K checks into SMB acquisitions, then going all-in: sharing expertise, making connections, providing hands-on support.

It isn't the big family-office checks that make these deals successful. It's smaller investors with skin in the game. The Stanford 2024 Search Fund Study shows roughly 30% IRR averages and 3–5× returns on the profitable deals — driven by operator support, not capital.

If you're a $200K+ earner curious about ETA, this is the on-ramp. Live deals, mentorship, and a community of operator-investors.

ARCOS Labs is the parent entity for the AI-era IP protection work. We build the forensic and rights infrastructure that lets studios, publishers, and rights holders set the terms of engagement with generative AI companies.

VN.ai is the flagship product line.

Every major AI system trained on the open web, and your IP was in that data. VN proves it — then helps you decide what happens next.

Three layers of detection feed one unified evidence pipeline. Web detection flows into AI analysis, which flows into training-data review. The most complete forensic picture available, built to the rigor courts require.

From the forensic record, you can litigate, license, or both. The Forensic Suite produces a litigation-ready package; the Rights Suite turns the same infrastructure into licensing revenue with continuous enforcement and a tamper-evident audit trail.

A private R&D project on voice-and-video first human-computer interaction. Mic and camera in. Agents in the middle. Clean handoffs to a small operator team for the last mile.

The keyboard is the bottleneck for a portfolio operator running a fund, multiple companies, and a family office at once. Most of what gets done in 2026 should not require sitting at a desk.