We invest like people who have built companies.
Because we have.
Three generations. Two continents. One permanent balance sheet. We back founders in fintech and dual-use technology, and partner in high-cashflow manufacturing — with capital that answers to no fund clock.
Arktos Technologies
A stealth-stage fintech whose patented infrastructure is powered by a new class of economic models — applying techniques from quantum gravity to simulate information flow across the modern market, bridging the active/passive divide.
People’s Bank of Commerce
Publicly traded Oregon community bank (OTC: PBCO). Will St. Laurent serves as Vice Chairman of the board — the family’s third generation of bank governance.
SeqLL, Inc.
Single-molecule sequencing built on the Helicos technology — continuing a genomics legacy that began on the founding board of Celera.
True Bearing Diagnostics
Developer of CathDX, a precision blood-based cardiac diagnostic, in partnership with George Washington University.
St. Laurent Land & Cattle
Pioneers of all-natural, hormone-free beef since 1985; today among the country’s finest American Wagyu programs.
Domaine St. Laurent
Estate Pinot Noir in a classic French style, grown at elevation in Oregon’s Rogue Valley.
Most firms show you a track record.
Ours is a family history.
From Sterno to the boards of modern science
Georges C. St. Laurent Jr. — Yale, Harvard Business School — built his first fortune developing Florida commercial real estate and as owner of the Sterno Companies, sold to Colgate-Palmolive. As Chairman and CEO of Western Bank, he built one of Oregon’s leading community banks and guided it to a successful sale in 1996. His board service traces the frontier of American enterprise: Baxter International, Applied Biosystems, and Celera Genomics — founding board member of the company that sequenced the human genome. Trustee of Rockefeller University. Member of the President’s Circle of the National Academy of Sciences.
A computer empire in Brazil, a ranch in Oregon
Georges St. Laurent III and William St. Laurent founded Vitech America and built it into Brazil’s second-largest PC manufacturer — a story chronicled by Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. Nasdaq listing in 1996. Acquisition of Microtec, Brazil’s oldest computer company. A $31 million strategic investment from Gateway Inc. in 1999, taking a 23 percent stake and making Vitech its exclusive representative in Brazil. Back home, the family put down roots in the Rogue Valley — pioneering all-natural, hormone-free beef decades before the market moved that way.
The third generation, investing forward
Today the family is the largest shareholder of People’s Bank of Commerce, a publicly traded community bank, and the founding investor of Arktos Technologies, a stealth fintech applying techniques from quantum gravity to simulate information flow across the modern market. Holdings span biotechnology — including SeqLL and True Bearing Diagnostics — commercial real estate, American Wagyu cattle, and the estate Pinot Noir of Domaine St. Laurent. St. Laurent Investments carries the family’s operating DNA into venture capital and private equity.
Conviction, concentrated.
What founders get when we take a board seat
Permanent Capital
No fund cycles, no forced exits, no artificial timelines. We measure success in decades.
Governance Experience
Decades of board service on public and private companies — from community banks to genomics pioneers.
Operating Depth
We have taken companies public, executed M&A, structured Fortune 500 partnerships, and scaled internationally.
Sector Fluency
Banking, life sciences, fintech, real estate, agriculture — informed by ownership, not observation.
“We hold concentrated positions, take board seats where we can add value, and measure success in decades. That is how our family has always invested — and it is what we bring to the next generation of companies we back.”