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What Capital Thirteen focuses on as a privately held UK holding company deploying patient, permanent capital.

This page defines the businesses, assets and situations Capital Thirteen backs.

We act as a long-term owner deploying patient, permanent capital. We are not a fund, not a platform and not transaction-driven.

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Our focus

We focus on businesses and assets with durable use, repeat demand and defensible economics.

We prefer cash generation and free cash flow over narrative. We value resilience over speed.

We look for structures we can hold indefinitely. Focus is on quality of structurerather than growth rate.

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What we look for

  • Durable fundamentals. Essential or repeatable demand with clear drivers of revenue, cost and margin.

  • Understandable business models. Simple unit economics. Operations that can be tested, not assumed.

  • Clear ownership and decision rights. Governance and accountability that work in practice, not only on paper.

  • Alignment between capital, operators and outcomes. Incentives that reward good decisions over time and prevent value leakage.

  • Resilience under downside scenarios. Liquidity, covenants and cost structures that hold under stress.

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What matters most

Focus is guided by downside protection, governance and incentive design.

We care more about behaviour under stress than performance in favourable conditions.

We start with structure. We require protections that remain enforceable when conditions tighten.

Trust is earned in difficult moments. We underwrite for those moments first.

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What we do not pursue

  • Speculative strategies driven by timing, momentum or constant re-pricing.

  • Leverage dependent outcomes.

  • Complexity without protection or enforceable rights.

  • Growth reliant on continuous external capital to remain viable.

  • Short-term optimisation at the expense of long-term stewardship.

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Focus as discipline

Focus is an active constraint. It protects attention and decision quality.

Saying no is a core capability. It preserves permanence and keeps decisions clean.

We back what we can hold responsibly, through cycles, as a permanent owner with clear rights and obligations.

Build. Hold. Back.