Treehouse Capital, LLC

Treehouse Capital, LLC is an investment firm focused on making investments of time and money into interesting and worthy companies and people doing interesting and worthy things. Treehouse is a personal investment vehicle – launched by its founder and managing partner, Robert J. Majteles, after he had been the chief executive officer of three different technology companies. Mr. Majteles seeks to be invited into great opportunities to add value as an active and involved board member, utilizing his experiences as a chief executive officer, investor, experienced board member of public and private companies, and prior experiences as both an investment banker and a mergers and acquisitions attorney. In addition to earning the appropriate “sweat economics” for taking on these board positions, Mr. Majteles seeks investment opportunities for Treehouse to invest its own capital when time, circumstances, and liquidity permit. Treehouse’s portfolio of investments include companies on whose boards of directors Mr. Majteles has served or currently serves, as well as companies that represent more purely passive investments – but which presented themselves as investment opportunities for Treehouse as an outgrowth of Mr. Majteles’ active and involved work as a board member in companies within a related market and competitive ecosystem.

Treehouse attempts to make great investments in great people—regardless of the specific market focus or circumstances of the company being evaluated for investment. Treehouse’s portfolio companies (both privately held and publicly traded) have ranged in size from pre-revenue start-ups to companies generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, facing a wide array of circumstances and opportunities, and have benefitted from Mr. Majteles’ active board involvement in a variety of ways. The unifying theme that all of Treehouse’s portfolio companies share at the start of Mr. Majteles’ engagement with them centers around the issues and opportunities associated with “scale” – situations where the strategy, the people, and/or the company’s operations need an extra investment of leadership and intellectual and emotional capacity by an active and involved board member to help the company achieve its goals, or better achieve its goals ... and sometimes to redefine its goals.

In every situation that has generated great financial returns for Treehouse and its partners, the defining characteristic of the opportunity has been the blend of having great and honorable entrepreneurs leading a company at the moment when they have figured out a way to “scale” successfully and meaningfully. Treehouse attempts to find teams it can embrace and extend during these efforts to “scale” in an effort to be a part of building a company that defines the business models and execution capabilities required to build long-term success.