Our goal is to create substantial progress for the state’s economy while delivering returns to our capital partners through diversified investments in Appalachia.
Why We Exist
Good ideas and capable people are everywhere around us in the Mountain State. Major challenges that block a good idea from becoming a viable business include a lack of risk capital, gaps in know-how, and infrastructure to support new business.
We invest in assets, businesses, and projects with a private equity + venture capital mindset to support the local economy and future innovation. Our goal is to optimize local resources, technologies, and ideas to expand the frontiers of what we can produce.
Invest in assets and infrastructure to combat blight, build a runway for growth, and target above average returns for our investors and the community.
Create large scale projects that require more effort and capital - targeting higher returns and value creation. Connect the dots of resources to make opportunity.
Revolutionary ideas to create value, helping fill the gaps left by end-of-lifecycle industries. Venture Capital-like returns from companies changing the world.
Edge is what we look for in every trade and every investment. We actively seek how to play the game downhill instead of up, and how to maximize our chance and scale of success. We’ve carefully designed our concept to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the pack while favoring wins for our team and the economies in which we are investing. Here’s how our concept gives us the advantage:
Our experienced management team will play a front-seat role in the growth and development of each venture we add to our portfolio. Drawing from decades of experience around the globe with local, experienced managers boasting a strong track record, our team is personally responsible for the success of projects.
With native West Virginians and experts from around the globe, our team has viewpoints acquired from experience at the local, national and global levels. We are looking at West Virginia life with a radically different set of lenses — night vision goggles in West Virginia’s currently dark economy, where others struggle to see opportunity.
We look for opportunity and value wherever we can find it. A willingness to purchase or invest in established businesses with strong cash flow is a critical component of our strategy for generating the kinds of profits we aim to reinvest in the state’s economy, while building up local communities in the process.
West Virginia frequently presents challenges calling for complex solutions. Instead of despair we see hope. This perspective has already begun affecting change on a small level in West Virginia. With each success and learning, we will share with those around us, support the overall movement, and collaborate together to find a winning solution.
The Loyal Canary’s mission is multilayered and humanitarian at its core: We aim not only to build profits for our investors but to pave the way for a stronger economy in our home state and beyond. Our long-term vision can be summarized in the following three goals:
Collaboration with private and public partners, academia, the arts, community organizations, and anyone who wants to bet on a better tomorrow for their area. Working together toward this goal to see a shift toward a brighter future.
Investor and societal returns in alignment. Empowering the value chain to be as local as possible with strategic partners and investments to keep each dollar spent in the community around as long as we can.
Coach and support West Virginia natives and transplants to build businesses that support themselves and the local economy via sustainable companies and profits.
Our team of professionals brings a diverse set of skills and backgrounds to Appalachia. Through investment, teaching, consulting, and services we are working towards local progress founded on profitable and sustainable business where the community is a stakeholder.
We are seeking ideas, partners, investors, friends, and collaborators to join us in this initiative, to unlock potential and opportunity in West Virginia and contribute to an improved climate for business and entrepreneurship across the state. By investing in local projects - and delivering them to the finish line - we’ll demonstrate that betting on the future can pay off in West Virginia. These successes will bolster local economies and encourage other entrepreneurs, which will in turn open up new opportunities for investment.
