Ulysses is an unusual investment firm in that our General Partners and their families have contributed a significant portion of our capital under management and it represents a meaningful portion of their net worth; we subscribe to the notion of ‘eating your own cooking.’ With our interests well aligned with our outside investors’, we are concerned with both the financial success of our investments and with the ethical and moral standards of high integrity and good governance. We invest in profitable, well-established companies with tangible competitive advantages which benefit from clearly identifiable barriers to competition. Our investment philosophy is to invest in change – change created by industry trends, economic cycles or specific company circumstances. As a sponsor or in partnership with other like minded investors, we seek to drive expanded market presence, improved profitability and a steepened growth trajectory in our portfolio companies. No VC or early stage. We typically invest in profitable, established businesses.