Doing few things and doing them well

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What We Do

We believe in the power of doing few things and doing them well

We believe in the power of doing few things and doing them well

Juxtapose invests in technology businesses and platforms developed and greenlit at the firm.
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Our investment process starts with rigorous, multi-year concept development work that leverages our dedicated capabilities around commercial and industry diligence, user and ethnographic research, product and business design, corporate and business development, and capital markets experience.

We partner each greenlit opportunity with a world-class CEO that can launch, and scale, the business. We remain a deeply active partner to the founding CEO and team as the company grows and evolves.

Our raison d'être: to work on transformative products, in the most impactful industries, with the best entrepreneurial operators. We have a portfolio that is small in number, but transformative in impact.

Our Portfolio

Big industries meet even bigger talent.

Big industries meet even bigger talent.

Chris Johnson

CEO
Transforming healthcare for vulnerable populations

We partnered with Chris to bring healthcare services to underserved markets left behind by today’s healthcare system. Corduroy’s value-based contracting model helps it deliver positive outcomes while simultaneously delighting providers and the communities they serve. Chris has an incredible depth of experience in value-based healthcare, most recently as the CEO of Landmark Health, which Optum acquired in 2021. He specializes in bringing modern technology and data science to clinical organizations, ultimately aligning incentives for payors, providers and patients.

What got me excited
“I’ve had the privilege to spend my career serving vulnerable people on our communities. There is a shocking lack of access to primary care in low income neighborhoods - we are building a mission aligned provider organization, powered by data and technology, and enabled by value-based care to change that.”

Court Cunningham

CEO
Transforming life's most stressful transactiON

We partnered with Court to build a next-generation real estate platform that transforms the way everyday Americans buy and sell homes. Today, Orchard offers consumers AI-powered home discovery, on-demand purchasing so customers can buy a new home before selling their old home, and a modern digital closing—all for the same fee as traditional brokers. Court was previously the founding CEO of Yodle, where he took the company to over $200M in revenue and over 1,200 employees.

What got me excited
"Buying a home is the single biggest financial decisions of most consumers' lives. I found the opportunity to make this stress-free, fair and simple while transforming a $2 trillion market incredibly exciting."

Lexi Reese

CEO
Helping organizations lean into Generative AI

We partnered with Lexi to build a software business that helps organizations optimize their use of Generative AI. Lanai provides visibility into employees’ interactions with AI, ensures safe and effective use, and guides employees towards the most productive uses over time. It’s the first platform of its kind to not only provide security but also enablement of AI in a privacy-first way. Lexi’s strong background building innovative products for businesses at American Express, Google and Gusto puts her in prime position to solve the types of challenges GenAI presents. She’s an expert on how organizations must adapt to stay competitive in the face of AI, climate, and the economy.

What got me excited
"We are in the midst of a 4th industrial revolution. The impact of generative AI is enormous and will radically change how we build products, workplaces and - ultimately - society. I wanted to partner with a brilliant and ethical technologist, Steve Herrod, to co-create a software platform that does the job big companies and the 30% of the workforce they employ need done: guide organizations in harnessing Generative AI's potential to drive positive outcomes across the board."

Juxtapose founding CEOs are proven entrepreneurial operators with track records spanning decades. We partner these CEOs and their co-founding leadership teams with ambitious, technology-driven transformation opportunities in large markets, with the aligned aim of building long-lasting businesses that move the world forward.

Our founding CEOs, by leveraging Juxtapose's years of pre-greenlight concept development work and in conjunction with our dedicated launch capabilities, are able to meaningfully accelerate their company's journey to scale and success. We consider our process to determine the right founding CEO the most important partnership decision we make as a fund, and the relationship most impactful to our long-term success.

Our companies and their founding teams are what define Juxtapose.

Foundational Beliefs

Our foundational beliefs shape how we build

The beliefs that shape how we build

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We believe there is genuine power in choosing to focus on doing few things, and doing them well.

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We believe in actively embracing the tensions inherent in doing things that are hard.

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We believe that talent is truly everything. This extends from the Juxtapose team to our CEOs and their co-founders. We see all opportunities, whether in our portfolio, our firm, or the world at large, through a people-centric lens.

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We believe in the power of virtuous alignment between our founders, our limited partners, the capital ecosystem, and our team. Individual greatness, only when properly harnessed for the good of the group, drives winning as a team.

Court Cunningham

"Buying a home is the single biggest financial decisions of most consumers' lives. I found the opportunity to make this stress-free, fair and simple while transforming a $2 trillion market incredibly exciting."

Company
Orchard
Year Founded
2017
Industry
Real Estate
Transforming life's most stressful transactiON

We partnered with Court to build a next-generation real estate platform that transforms the way everyday Americans buy and sell homes. Today, Orchard offers consumers AI-powered home discovery, on-demand purchasing so customers can buy a new home before selling their old home, and a modern digital closing—all for the same fee as traditional brokers. Court was previously the founding CEO of Yodle, where he took the company to over $200M in revenue and over 1,200 employees.

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Court before Orchard

I was previously the CEO of Yodle for 9 years, where I and the team grew the business from inception to over $200M in revenue and sold the business to Web.com in March 2016. Yodle was a leader in local online advertising that connected small businesses to consumers simply and cost-effectively through websites, SEO, email and SEM. Prior to Yodle, I was SVP of Marketing Automation at DoubleClick, where I built an industry-leading email marketing solution that was sold to Epsilon in 2005. I received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997 and a BA in English from Princeton University in 1991.

Career Highlights

2017

Met Phil DeGisi, my co-founder at Orchard, who has been the best business parter of my career with his grit, creativity and practicality.

2016

Sold Yodle to Web.com for $342M.

2000

Launched DartMail, one of the first email marketing platforms in the US, and scaled it to the de facto industry leader in 5 years.

1979

Met the woman who ultimately became my wife at her high school graduation (she was 18; I was 12...)

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Chris Johnson

“I’ve had the privilege to spend my career serving vulnerable people on our communities. There is a shocking lack of access to primary care in low income neighborhoods - we are building a mission aligned provider organization, powered by data and technology, and enabled by value-based care to change that.”

Company
Bluebird Kids Health
Year Founded
2023
Industry
Healthcare
Transforming healthcare for vulnerable populations

We partnered with Chris to bring healthcare services to underserved markets left behind by today’s healthcare system. Corduroy’s value-based contracting model helps it deliver positive outcomes while simultaneously delighting providers and the communities they serve. Chris has an incredible depth of experience in value-based healthcare, most recently as the CEO of Landmark Health, which Optum acquired in 2021. He specializes in bringing modern technology and data science to clinical organizations, ultimately aligning incentives for payors, providers and patients.

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Chris before Corduroy

Before founding Corduroy, I had the privilege of spending seven years at Landmark Health, which was a transformative career experience that opened my eyes to the scale that could be achieved in the value-based context. When I joined, I was energized by the challenge of expanding the business model the New England market and quickly realized how the business’s embrace of technology would enable us to grow rapidly while maintaining a high clinical and patient satisfaction bar. Landmark manages to make value-based care work in a way that is net positive for the world, and I was excited to leverage my experience for a new domain of care in pediatrics.

Career Highlights

2021

Elevated to CEO of Landmark Health after the Optum acquisition. Expanded Landmark from 12 to 38 states and quadrupled patients under management as Landmark became the cornerstone of Optum’s national in-home medical care strategy.

2017

Joined Landmark Health as vice president and GM responsible for launching the New England market.

2011

Co-founded Predilytics, which was a healthcare predictive analytics company focused on enabling payors and providers to leverage data to enable value-based care. Welltock acquired Predilytics in 2015.

2008

Started my career as a strategy consultant at Innosight, where I first gained my first exposure to the healthcare industry working under Clay Christensen.

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Lexi Reese

"We are in the midst of a 4th industrial revolution. The impact of generative AI is enormous and will radically change how we build products, workplaces and - ultimately - society. I wanted to partner with a brilliant and ethical technologist, Steve Herrod, to co-create a software platform that does the job big companies and the 30% of the workforce they employ need done: guide organizations in harnessing Generative AI's potential to drive positive outcomes across the board."

Company
Lanai
Year Founded
2023
Industry
Software
Helping organizations lean into Generative AI

We partnered with Lexi to build a software business that helps organizations optimize their use of Generative AI. Lanai provides visibility into employees’ interactions with AI, ensures safe and effective use, and guides employees towards the most productive uses over time. It’s the first platform of its kind to not only provide security but also enablement of AI in a privacy-first way. Lexi’s strong background building innovative products for businesses at American Express, Google and Gusto puts her in prime position to solve the types of challenges GenAI presents. She’s an expert on how organizations must adapt to stay competitive in the face of AI, climate, and the economy.

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Lexi before Lanai

I’ve spent nearly three decades empowering people and businesses to thrive. The first phase of my career at Amex and Google was focused on empowering small businesses to succeed financially by reaching their intended audiences. Under my leadership, Google’s programmatic advertising business experienced explosive growth and redefined people’s expectations around ad content and relevance. In the next phase, as COO at Gusto, I played an instrumental role in the company’s rapid growth from a small payroll company to a multi-billion dollar HR system disrupting major incumbents. Most recently, I continued onward with the theme of helping others thrive by consulting on future-forward business practices and running for U.S. Senate to create real impact for those who need it most. Founding and leading Lanai is a natural new frontier for me as it sits at the intersection of technology paradigm and the future of work. I’m thrilled to play this role of helping organizations get the most out of it while protecting against its risks.

Career Highlights

2023

Launched a Senate campaign in California to create a just, equitable world where everyone can thrive. While my campaign eventually ended, my commitment to this vision remains intact.

2022

Partnered with General Catalyst as an Executive in Residence to help develop a point of view on the Future of Work and labor markets in the context of AI, make investment recommendations and advise companies.

2015

Joined Gusto as COO where I empowered our business teams to drive cost-effective growth, extraordinary service and a high-performance culture.

2007

Joined Google to help the small business and, later, global programmatic advertising business through explosive growth over the next 8 years.