Longley Capital

Longley Capital is a San Diego-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on identifying and nurturing management teams with visionary ideas, providing both quantitative and qualitative support to accelerate enterprise value and mitigate portfolio risk. By implementing business fundamentals early in a company's lifecycle, Longley Capital aims to ensure success in later stages.

The firm's investment strategy emphasizes active management, establishing clear communication and milestone protocols with portfolio companies. This high-touch interaction builds a strong foundation, ensuring effective and timely risk management and allowing portfolio companies to respond opportunistically to changes in industry environments.

Founded in 2019, Longley Capital is headquartered in San Diego, California. The firm specializes in providing venture capital and early-stage investments to technology companies. Longley Capital also offers advisory services, such as strategy and analysis, to their portfolio companies. They have invested in companies operating in a variety of industries, including healthcare, energy, and finance.

Key investments include Pasturebird (acquired by Perdue), Manscaped, Healthie, and GoSite. The firm's team comprises experienced professionals, including Managing Partners and Co-Founders Denise and Steven Longley, who bring expertise from their previous roles at EY, HSBC, Encore Capital Group, Financial Recovery Technologies, Thomson Reuters, and CCBN. Denise Longley holds an MBA from UCSD’s Rady School of Management and a BS in Management Science from the University of California, San Diego. Steven Longley earned his MBA from UCSD’s Rady School of Management and a BA in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Longley Capital's approach combines analytical rigor with capital markets expertise to identify and enhance promising venture opportunities, aiming to deliver risk-adjusted, meaningful returns. The firm has developed a network of co-investors, academics, corporate executives, and fellow entrepreneurs to provide portfolio companies with access to a broad range of insights across multiple disciplines, driving them toward success.

The firm's investment focus includes sectors such as technology, healthcare, energy, and finance, with a geographical focus on the United States. Longley Capital's investment stages range from seed to early-stage, including Series A and Series B rounds. The firm typically invests between $300,000 and $2 million in each portfolio company, aligning with its strategy to support and scale early-stage technology ventures.