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We are a trusted partner to family offices, venture investors, and emerging companies, providing hands-on operational leadership, capital strategy, and execution support across the full investment lifecycle.

Our work supports early- through later-stage family office and VC equity investments, including discovery, turnaround leadership, deal evaluation, transaction execution, post-deal operations, and exit planning.

Why Us:

With a track record spanning 100+ multinational operations, our team is recognized as Business Operations & Completion Experts—specialists in taking complex situations from strategy to execution. We combine disciplined, detail-driven analysis with decisive action, bringing a calm, precise, and results-oriented operating style to every engagement.

We don’t advise from the sidelines—we step in, align stakeholders, fix what’s broken, and drive outcomes.

Core Capabilities:

Family Office & Venture Operations
- Hands-on SFO and VC investment oversight
- Portfolio company operations and governance
- Capital deployment, restructuring, and value creation
Transaction & Execution Support
- Discovery and internal investment reviews
- Due diligence, deal structuring, and contract development
- Transaction completion and post-deal integration
- Exit planning and execution support
Technology & Emerging Systems Leadership
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) vision and business implementation
- Fintech and digital asset convergence with traditional finance
- Encryption and advanced security frameworks
- Emerging technology assessment, commercialization, and scaling
Operational Leadership
- Business development and right-sizing operations
- Strategic vision, restructuring, and execution
- Comprehensive CxO-level leadership across growth, turnaround, and transition scenarios

Advanced Domain Experience

Our operating and advisory experience spans a wide range of advanced and emerging sectors, including:

Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Fintech, Blockchain, Digital Assets, Tokenization, DAOs
Encryption and Cybersecurity
Energy (clean and conventional), renewables, and water systems
Telecommunications and telemedicine
Medical systems, deep-ocean technologies, and space systems

Our Approach

We specialize in drop-in, variable-length engagements designed to rapidly assess, diagnose, and execute. Our process emphasizes:

Organizing facts and validating assumptions
Defining clear business objectives and capital priorities
Aligning teams, resources, and governance
Driving revenue, operational stability, and scalable growth
Positioning assets and companies for planned, strategic exits

Bottom Line

We help investors and operators organize complexity into clarity, convert potential into performance, and transform strategy into realized value.

If you are navigating growth, transition, or exit—and need operators who execute—we are built for that moment.

Join Us Today and let us help you organize the facts, determine your business objectives and goals, tap into your potential, and achieve revenue targets while planning for a strategic exit.

Elevate your venture with our expert guidance. Contact us today to embark on your journey to success.

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Into Your Business Needs

Determine - Investigate - Vest - Execute

Committed to Your Discovery / Planning / Completions

Venture Capital Services

Providing hands-on Venture Capital management ensuring investors needs and best interests are forefront. Discovery, Internal Development/ Investment Reviews, Due Diligence, Hands-On Development Guidance Advisory, Pivot Planning, Exit Structure & Vision.

KARAS PARTNERs ∣∣ FAMILY OFFICES ∣∣ VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTORS ∣∣ PRIVATE EQUITY

Investment & Debt Financing

Providing all forms of technical and commercial business placement service leadership and financial reviews.

Project / Special Programs Management & Technical Advisory

Providing hands-on technical planning, strategy, development, team organization and leadership in advanced and disruptive technologies. From hardware to software to systems solutions completions…

NASA ∣∣ LOCKHEED ∣∣WYLE ∣∣ Skyworks

Business Operations

Providing all forms of Cross-functional Program & Special Operations Leadership from First-Response through Continued Business Oversight. Aggressively Investigate, Monitor ‘Perceived Plan’ vs. ‘Actual Situation’, Implementing Planned Exit Controls, Realignments, Restructure & Turn-Arounds

NATIONAL ∣∣ INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

Strategic Vision, Restructure & Implementation

Meeting your business needs by Completing & Organizing Facts, Determining the Business Objectives & Goals, Organizing the Potentials and Achieving Revenue and Planned Exit

CONEXANT ∣∣ SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS

Emerging Technologies & Markets

Fintech; Conventional & Alternative Energy, Renewables, Sustainability, Wind and Water Recycling, including Worldwide Deep-Water Operations; Deep Ocean and Subsea Human and Autonomous Systems; Aerospace Systems & Technologies; Blockchain / Cryptocurrency / Tokens/ Metaverse / DAOs; Data Security/Encryption Technologies; Telemedicine; Advanced & Extreme Environment Medical & Life Support Systems; Telecommunications, International Wireless, Cellular and Data Systems

NATIONAL ∣∣ INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS

John Samuelson’s Fundamental Methodology

As a former NASA Researcher/ Developer, international Business Operations Leader and Deep Sea Construction Diver, John used ‘Emerging Technologies’ strategies and real-time tactics that transform mid-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies

- Meeting Your Immediate & Outcome Needs…

DETERMINE

Your Outcomes

INVESTIGATE

Your Solution

VEST

Your Tiger Team

ExecutE

Flawlessly

Spent countless hours at Ocean Depth — when you look up and see the sunlight fade away. Each deep sea dive a business adventure into the unknown. When 1,000 things could go wrong and your exact mission is to do 1 thing right. -Requires never ending strategic planning and forethought…
I’ve felt the weightlessness as the Test Plane arcs over 30,000 feet.
And I’ve known even the tightest deadlines in multi-million dollar projects when flawless execution is the bare minimum.
Let’s Determine Your Outcomes, Investigate Your Solution, Vest in Your Tiger Team, and Execute Flawlessly.
Let’s D-I-V-E right in to your business needs,

John Samuelson

Committed to Excellence

Venture Capital / Private Equity / Family Office Leadership

Completed contract business and technology leadership, including new and existing commercial business and financial reviews, technical advisory and transaction closures for new investment opportunities.

Complete investment research, due diligence, turn-around, pivot, right size and business investment transaction completions and operations, for successful mergers and acquisitions supporting investments and transactions over $100 Million.

Analysis and research including Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Market Analysis, Due Diligence & Financial Leadership

KARAS PARTNERs ∣∣ FAMILY OFFICES ∣∣ VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTORS ∣∣ PRIVATE EQUITY

Advanced Clean Energy, Renewables & Sustainability

Completed international sustainable and disruptive technology business leadership and developments in advanced water, power and renewables technologies and commercializations.

Completed early-adopter water and power solar systems development, test and operations with functional use, business development and commercialization.

Completed system development, test and operations of a state-of-the-art commercial and home use water cycling system.

WORLDWIDE ∣∣ INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS

Fintech / Artificial Intelligence Digital Assets (Cryptocurrency) / WEB 3.0 / Quantum Compute / Blockchain/ Emerging Technologies

Provided international Digital Assets (Crypto - Web 3.0 - Blockchain), Artificial Intelligence and Fintech business development, research investment consulting and leadership for investors, new business development, and product commercialization.

Completed the program development roadmap and marketing strategy supporting multiple blockchain start-ups with launch readiness for investor acceptance. Operations, ‘hands-on’ Advisory Services and developments.

Completed Digital Assets & Blockchain consultation and advisory services for Non-Profits and High-Wealth clients, for investment research, strategic guidance, technical leadership and due diligence.

WORLDWIDE ∣∣ INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS

Emerging Medical Systems

Provided ALS medical and life support systems technical developments, integration and leadership, supporting product completions and certifications with multi-million dollar international completions.

Completed Telemedicine Medical System analysis and operations, supporting international use case and program approval with international deployment.

Envisioned, Designed, and Project Managed the world’s first Space Flight Medical Airway Suction Device flown by NASA on the International Space Station and Space Shuttle.

Developed/Released Defibrillator and Ventilator advanced life support equipment projects as project and integration lead, supporting NASA’s disruptive technology developments and spaceflight, including publications.

NASA ∣∣ KRUG LIFE SCIENCES (WYLE) ∣∣ LOCKHEED

Advanced Telecommunications Systems

Completed Customer and Product Management for multi-million dollar international for state-of-the-art cellular and telecommunications systems, software and device developments.

Completed contract negotiations and defined, tracked and insured $100M dollar annual revenue goals from 20 International Clients.

Completed International Product Line Management for Asian and European clients with successful technical team, cross-functional team and client leadership.

CONEXANT ∣∣ SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS

Emerging Aerospace Systems

Provided technical planning, development, human testing and leadership focused on all forms of advanced space-based life support systems, airlock and space suit systems for International operations.

Led Satellite Systems Design and Operations, completed satellite systems leadership, program due diligence and relocations nationally, supporting NASA goals.

Completed joint NASA-Russian Soyuz technical integration agreements in Moscow, resulting in international approvals and space flight implementations.

Completed NASA International Space Station, Space Shuttle and Emergency Escape Vehicles life support and space suit systems technical development and leadership.

NASA ∣∣ LOCKHEED ∣∣ KRUG LIFE SCIENCES (WYLE)

Energy Development & Deep-Ocean Technology

Completed international technical deep-water energy recovery systems installation, construction, operations and development team leadership in depths up to 500 feet of water, supporting major energy developments.

Performed Professional Deep-Sea Diving beyond 500 feet of water of a Brazilian sub-sea structure installation, and power cable and telecommunications installations.

Performed deep-water seismic survey research and team leadership completing client’s 1st geophysical energy mapping and related sales.