Henchmen Partners

Christian Garrett, the firm's founder and CEO, is the sole investment decision-maker. Garrett sold his own venture-backed startup prior to establishing Henchmen Partners, and his operator background informs every investment the firm makes. The firm does not operate with a traditional investment committee structure.

The firm relies on Garrett's network from his time as a founder and active angel investor in the San Francisco technology ecosystem. Henchmen Partners does not run a public accelerator or open application process, favoring introductions through other founders and technical operators. This approach aims to surface enterprise companies that may be overlooked by larger institutional funds.

Henchmen Partners functions as a proprietary investment vehicle using Christian Garrett's personal capital rather than a traditional venture fund with external limited partners. While the firm occasionally co-invests alongside select partners, its primary structure aligns more closely with a single-family office deployment model than an institutional venture capital firm raising blind-pool funds.

Henchmen Partners makes direct investments into startup companies and does not publicly commit capital to external venture funds as a limited partner. The firm's strategy centers on direct equity positions in early-stage enterprise technology companies.

The firm concentrates on pre-seed and seed-stage rounds, with occasional participation in Series A financings. Henchmen Partners reserves capital for follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies, reflecting a high-conviction, concentrated portfolio approach rather than a spray-and-pray seeding strategy.