Operators who’ve built where others wouldn’t.
A partnership with decades of experience investing in and operating the companies the market overlooks — and the discipline to keep a board seat in every one.
Founder & Managing Partner
Edward Dugger III
Ed has spent more than four decades proving a single thesis: the founders mainstream capital overlooks deliver superior returns. His venture career began at 25 and accelerated at 27, when he became CEO of one of the nation’s larger venture firms — mentored by the CEO of Morgan Stanley and the chairman of J.P. Morgan’s executive committee.
Leading one of the earliest impact VC funds as president of UNC Partners, he returned a 32% IRR over the fund’s final decade and helped launch some of the most successful Black-led companies in the country. He has served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and co-founded The Business Collaborative with the CEO of State Street. In 2020 he founded Reinventure to run that same contrarian playbook again.
- Harvard College
- Princeton · MPA
- Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- The Business Collaborative
Shijiro Ochirbat
Partner
Shijiro leads Reinventure’s diligence — running founder intake, financial-model analysis, and the selection decisions behind every investment. She joined in 2019 and became Partner in 2024. Before venture, she worked across government and international development on economic policy and global investment — at Mongolia’s Prime Minister’s Office, the UNDP, and GIZ.
Langston Dugger
Partner, Operations
Langston has spent more than 20 years helping scale venture- and private-equity-backed startups — driving the operational growth that turns early traction into durable, valuable companies. At Reinventure he brings that operating experience directly to the portfolio and leads the Co-Pilot program, connecting founders to their next round. He joined in 2024.
How we work
We go beyond just investing.
Strategic partnership
Strategic planning, operational improvement, and board governance — a seat in every company we back.
Radical honesty
We report the misses alongside the wins. Straight accounting is how we earn the trust of founders and LPs alike.
Purpose, held seriously
Backing overlooked founders is an investment argument first — and a contribution to a more perfect multicultural democracy.
“We invest where others aren’t looking. That’s where the returns are.“
Edward Dugger III · Managing Partner
Want to work with us?
Whether you’re a founder or a prospective partner, we’d like to hear from you.
