Conviction over consensus.
The best early bets look wrong to most people. We'd rather be early and alone than late and comfortable.
In Norse myth, three Norns sit beneath Yggdrasil, the world tree, spinning the threads of fate. Urðr holds what has happened. Skuld holds what is yet to come. Between them sits Verðandi, whose name means “becoming.”
That's where we choose to work. Not in hindsight, when a market is obvious and the rounds are crowded, and not in speculation about a distant future. We work in the present tense, at the moment a founder first sees something others haven't.
Verdandi Capital was founded to be the first believer. We write early cheques, we write them decisively, and then we do the unglamorous work alongside the people we've backed: hiring, selling and raising, for as long as it takes.