Our Thesis

What if exited founders joined forces
with companies changing the world
to achieve their missions, faster?

(That's no longer hypothetical.)

That's SUPERNOVA.

Our Story

Barry Stamos and Christopher Staley built Supernova from a simple observation: the difference between a company that scales and one that stalls almost always comes down to who's in the room. Both serial founders and investors themselves, they spent decades building the kind of relationships most founders never get access to - exited founders who've made the calls. Today, 250+ of those founders have come together through Supernova to deploy their capital, wisdom, and networks into companies that matter.

What We Stand For

Make more. Give more. Scale What Matters.

Humanity

We back founders building businesses the world actually needs.

Intentionality

Every match, every introduction, every check written is deliberate. We don't move fast and break things. We move smart and build them to last.

Collaboration

250+ exited founders don't compete - they combine. Collective wisdom compounds faster than any single genius working alone.

Optimism

We lead with positive intent and the belief that the best founders are solving problems most people haven't noticed yet.

Evolution

We grow alongside the companies we back. When they win, we learn. When we learn, the next company wins faster.

Why Supernova Exists

Accelerate the realization of the founder's vision,
from the only perspective that truly understands it. As founders ourselves.

Founders build the future the rest of us inherit. They disrupt trillion-dollar industries, make decisions that shape realities, and carry the weight of missions most people will never understand. And yet, when it matters most, most founders are doing it alone.

Traditional support has failed Scaleups. Accelerators serve early-stage companies. Boards advise from a distance. Advisors show up when it's convenient. None of them have felt the consequences of the decisions they recommend.

AI is the new frontier. Why wouldn't you have the people who conquered the last one guiding your way? Supernova brings the exited founders who built the last revolution, now guiding yours.

Exited founders have. They've navigated hyper-growth, near-death quarters, board pressure, and exits. Less than 1% of entrepreneurs successfully exit. Supernova is built from that 1%, and they're paying it forward.