About us
Sharp strategies built for the bold
Ambitious, purpose-driven founders choose Portico Advisers when they need an honest partner who can cut through complexity and provide strategic clarity.
Through first-principles thinking and deep domain expertise, we construct customized solutions that enable our clients to achieve their business objectives.
How we support visionary founders
Strategy
Portico provides a suite of strategy solutions that enhance your firm’s value and advance your corporate objectives.
We support clients with firm differentiation and positioning; capital raising; M&A, joint ventures, and strategic alliances; knowledge transfer / conveyance of global best practices; and macro trends / thematic strategies.
Impact
A credible, rigorous impact framework can expand your funnel of prospective investors and increase your ability to drive positive change.
Portico develops customized impact frameworks and measurement methodologies that map investment themes to impact outcomes.
Transactions
As an independent transaction advisor, Portico provides a rigorous assessment of the assumptions in a deal, including an unvarnished analysis of what could go right and wrong.
We generate and screen investment targets; interrogate investment theses; conduct due diligence; review investment memos; provide guidance on deal structuring and negotiation messaging; and evaluate exit options.
Special Projects
Portico undertakes a variety of special projects that accrete to our clients’ brand value.
We have produced white papers on opportunities in specific markets / verticals, delivered presentations on industry trends at AGMs and conferences, created case studies, and even written firm histories.
Our ethos
Portico is a values-driven organization.
We build long-term partnerships with clients who share our commitment to ethical business practices that elevate human dignity.
Value creation > value extraction
Build something that increases the general welfare. Riches can be made in value extraction, but we reject doing well at the expense of others.
Spread dignity.
Intellectual curiosity
Ideas animate people to do great things. We believe in the power of ideas, contextual and interdisciplinary thinking, and open exchange.
Read, ask questions, and contribute your thoughts.
Intergenerational equity
We share Edmund Burke’s belief that the social contract is, “a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
Practice stewardship.
Our priority themes
Portico works with entrepreneurs and investors active across numerous sectors. We are particularly energized by the following themes:
Access to capital & financial inclusion
Healthcare & life sciences
Data-, digital- & tech-enabled businesses
Deep tech
Energy transition
Crypto / web3
Leadership
Every client gets direct access to Portico’s Founder
Michael Casey
Mike founded Portico Advisers to help build a more inclusive global economy, primarily by expanding access to capital.
Why?
Our name
Portico Advisers takes its name from the porticoes of Bologna, Italy, a majestic medieval city where the company’s founder made transformational friendships and memories.
It also emphasizes two foundational truths about our brand: our role as a pillar supporting our clients’ success, and our commitment to building strategies and relationships that endure the test of time.