In business, I am driven by two things — building value through knowledge and improving the world through investment. Aegis is where I translate these passions into reality.
Aegis Ventures Chairman, Bill Schoenfeld
Aegis Ventures draws on decades of experience executing $20B of global transactions since Bill Schoenfeld's founding of APL Group in 1994.
A Life Defined by Thinking Differently
Bill Schoenfeld is the Chairman of Aegis Ventures. He is also the Chairman, Founder, and largest shareholder of Asia Pacific Land (APL), a global investment firm that has completed $20 billion in transactions across real estate, private equity, renewable energy, and venture capital.
Foreseeing the path of structural growth in Asia, Bill founded APL at the age of 28 in a 10x10 windowless office in Hong Kong. From its earliest days, he differentiated APL by pursuing unorthodox opportunities in new markets with few other foreign investors. As the firm's reputation and resources grew, the company successfully executed some of the largest and highest-profile private market transactions in the markets in which it competes.
A dedicated impact investor for nearly two decades, Bill has devoted the next phase of his career to integrating his larger goals for improving the world with his investment efforts. Most recently, Bill led the creation of Aegis Ventures, a NY-based startup studio, to apply his decades of business-building expertise to empower the next generation of innovators to improve the world through entrepreneurship.
Bill graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, with a focus on moral philosophy. He continues to nurture a lifelong love of learning and has a particular passion for languages.
Aegis Advantage
- Differentiated Skillset & Philosophy
While building businesses is equal parts art and science, we have found that many elements of the venture creation process are identifiable and replicable — and can be learned by a broad array of talented individuals. Our venture creation playbook is founded on the expertise we have formed in other asset classes and is built on the understanding that success depends upon our ability to cultivate exceptional talent across the studio.
- Financial Strength & Flexibility
All of our capital is internal, and we are free to invest in the time and manner we see fit. With no predetermined time horizon for realizing returns, we are empowered to pursue long‑term, structural theses in high‑magnitude opportunities. Freed from the burdens of fundraising, the full breadth of our focus is devoted to the advancement of our portfolio companies and the improvement of our platform.
- Incisive Risk Management
Aegis's unified risk framework aims to identify, track, and execute upon distinct risk reduction milestones that maximize upside potential and minimize downside exposure. This analytical rigor allows our entrepreneurs to develop a disciplined, methodical approach to venture creation to vet and validate ideas with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Our Value Proposition
High Impact Ideas
We deploy a customer-first, problem-led approach to building companies. By listening to end users like clinicians and patients to drive ideation, we uncover the healthcare industry’s most critical pain points and identify ventures with the potential to address them.
Best In-Class Talent
We cultivate exceptional interdisciplinary teams — clinicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, creatives, commercial and regulatory experts — with the best leaders in the industry.
Joint Venture Partnerships
We work within the healthcare system, forging and leveraging relationships with market leaders, emerging innovators, institutions, and consumers. We bring both operational and financial partnerships with Northwell Health, named one of the most innovative healthcare companies of 2022 by Fast Company.
Flexible Permanent Capital
Our internal capital pool enables us to pursue long-term, structural theses in high-magnitude opportunity areas. Freed from the burden of capital sourcing, entrepreneurs can devote their time to core business functions, creating enduring impact without meeting artificial short-term fund requirements.