Building the next generation of innovative, tech-enabled companies

About Us

If you’re an entrepreneur with an amazing product and loyal customers, then you’ve taken your company from 0 to 1. At Aquila, we can help you take it from 1 to 10.

When the internet was still in its infancy, our founder Mark E. Watson III sensed that technology was going to significantly transform business and the economy, just like it had previously triggered major industrial revolutions. So, in 1998, Mark co-founded Aquila Capital Partners to support and invest in companies that leverage potentially transformative technologies.

With expertise in investment, capital allocation, and strategy, Aquila has been helping innovative entrepreneurs build and scale their companies for over 25 years, by providing both financial and intellectual capital. Using an entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur approach, we help with all things funding, strategy, and scaling but also with navigating through shifting environments and world crises.

Areas of Investment

Fin/InsureTech

BioTech

DTC Brands

Specialities

Funding: seed and early stage, from $1m to $150m in revenue

Product development and go-to-market strategy

Scaling and business strategy

Management and supply chain

Principal Founder

Mark E. Watson III

For over 25 years, Mark E. Watson III has been an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. Throughout his career, Watson ran 2 public companies—saving one from insolvency and turning it into a market leader with $10 billion in assets—acquired dozens of companies, both public and private, hired thousands of people, and navigated through major world crises.

Through his investment firm Aquila Capital Partners, which he cofounded in 1998, Watson supports the next generation of entrepreneurs who build innovative, technology-enabled companies.