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What we believe, and why we back it.

Our investing thesis is simple to state and hard to execute: the India–US corridor is the defining business axis of the decade, and the best returns come from capital that can also build.

We don't have a sector mandate. We have a conviction — and we let it, not a deployment target, decide where the money goes.

What it is

The conviction under the capital.

Every position we take traces back to a small set of beliefs. First, that the India–US corridor — talent, capital, and companies moving between the two markets — is the most important business axis of the decade, and that depth on it beats breadth everywhere. Second, that capital which can also build outperforms capital that can only watch, because operators change outcomes that money alone cannot.

Third, that conviction beats diversification at our scale: a few positions we understand deeply, backed with people, will do more than a spray of hopeful bets. And fourth, that the full lifecycle — including the situations that go wrong — is where an honest investor earns their edge, which is why distressed and special situations sit inside our thesis, not outside it.

Everything else — the stages, the structures, the sectors — is an expression of these beliefs.

The beliefs

Four convictions that decide where we invest.

01

The corridor is the edge

India–US movement is an advantage to underwrite, not a risk to avoid.

02

Capital that builds wins

Operators attached to money change outcomes that money alone can't.

03

Conviction over spread

A few deeply understood positions beat many shallow ones at our scale.

04

The whole lifecycle

Including distress and special situations — where honest edge is earned.

05

Founder alignment

We back people we'd build with, on terms that tie our outcome to theirs.

06

Asymmetry

Downside we can manage; upside worth the risk.

How the thesis acts

From belief to position.

1

Believe

Conviction — not a mandate — initiates a position.

2

Underwrite

We test the corridor edge and the asymmetry.

3

Build

Operators from Consulting and Cofoundry join the bet.

4

Steward

We own the outcome, up and down, alongside the founder.

Where this connects

The thesis runs through every kind of position.

Early-Stage

Conviction at the first cheque.

Mid-Market

Conviction at scale.

Distressed & Turnaround

Conviction in the downside.

Structures

How the conviction is carried.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Do you have a sector focus?

We're deepest where the corridor concentrates us — tech, AI, fintech, deeptech/defence, health, industrials, family-owned — but conviction leads, not a list.

Is the corridor a hard requirement?

It's our edge and usual filter. We occasionally back exceptional situations beyond it, but the corridor is where we're strongest.

Why include distressed in an investing thesis?

Because the full lifecycle is where honest edge is earned — and Errored Coin makes the downside a discipline, not a surprise.

What's the single most important factor?

Conviction we can act on — a real edge, a founder we'd build with, and a way for our operators to change the odds.

Share our conviction?

Tell us what you're building. If it fits the thesis, we'll move.