Tessera Group

The ownership side of Tessera.

Tessera Advisory Group helps founders build and fund their companies. Tessera Group is where we take ownership, building, backing, and holding businesses for the long term, with our own capital and conviction on the line.

What Holdings Does

We don't just advise on the structure, sometimes we own it.

Tessera Group puts the same structure-first discipline to work on companies we have a stake in, not just a contract with.

Build & Own

We originate and stand up ventures ourselves, designing the entity, the capital, and the operating model from the ground up, then holding a founding stake.

Back Operators

We take equity positions alongside founders we believe in, bringing capital plus the governance and financial architecture that help a good operator scale.

Hold for the Long Term

Patient capital, measured in years, not a quick flip. We stay involved through the chapters that actually build value.

Where We Hold

We invest where complexity creates an advantage.

We back situations where active involvement can change the outcome: durable cash flow or asset value, a structure that can be improved, stakeholders that need aligning. The sectors below are where that tends to show up for us, not a mandate to buy anything inside them. Specific holdings are kept discreet.

Real EstateAcquisition and ownership of income and development real estate, structured with sponsor-protective terms and long-hold economics.
Regulated IndustriesLicensed markets such as cannabis and hemp, where the right structure and compliance posture create durable, defensible positions.
Skilled Trades & Blue-CollarOwner-operated home-services and trades businesses with room to professionalize, systematize, and scale.
Hospitality & Consumer BrandsFounder-led hospitality and consumer concepts with the fundamentals to grow beyond a single location or line.
Independent MediaSelect film and independent media ventures, backed with institutional structure and patient capital.

Two Arms, One Discipline

How Advisory and Holdings work together.

The two sides of Tessera make each other sharper. Our advisory work keeps us fluent in how real deals get structured and financed; our ownership keeps us honest about what actually works once the capital is in and the operating begins. Founders get an advisor who invests, and the businesses we own get a partner who has structured these deals from the inside.

Where both could apply, we're clear about which hat we're wearing, advising you, investing alongside you, or both by agreement. That transparency is the point.