Eliot Kerlin launched Broadwing Capital in 2022 with a conviction thesis: kingdom-aligned private equity and venture can generate superior returns precisely because of its values alignment, not despite it. New fund. High conviction. Clear-eyed thesis.
The faith-aligned investing space has long been dominated by two modes: avoidance-based screening (ESG-like exclusion of "sin stocks") and below-market-rate impact investing ("concessionary returns for kingdom impact"). Kerlin rejects both. His thesis: alignment with kingdom principles — integrity, long-termism, stewardship, relational depth — produces superior risk-adjusted returns because these principles are operationally advantageous in private markets.
Kingdom values aren't a tax on returns — they're an edge. Companies led by people of deep integrity, with long time horizons, strong relational networks, and genuine stewardship mindsets, outperform. Not because God rewards them supernaturally, but because these characteristics are mechanically advantageous in private markets where trust, patience, and operational excellence compound.
Leaders with deep integrity generate trust capital that reduces transaction costs, accelerates partnerships, and creates deal flow advantages invisible to secular screens.
Stewardship-minded operators think in decades, not quarters. This patience creates compounding advantages in private markets where time horizon is a structural edge.
Kingdom networks are unusually high-trust and high-reciprocity. Deal flow, operational support, and exit opportunities all benefit from relational capital that money can't buy.
Companies run with genuine care for employees, customers, and communities create sustainable competitive advantages — lower turnover, stronger brands, deeper loyalty.
"We're not asking for concessionary returns in exchange for alignment. We're arguing that alignment IS the alpha. The same principles that make someone a faithful steward make them a superior operator." — Eliot Kerlin, on the Broadwing thesis
Eliot Kerlin builds career in finance and private markets. Develops conviction that faith-aligned investing is systematically undervalued — not because the capital doesn't exist, but because no one has articulated the return-generating thesis clearly enough.
Founds Broadwing Capital with a clear thesis: kingdom alignment produces superior returns through integrity premium, long-termism, relational depth, and operational stewardship. Names the firm "Broadwing" — evoking Isaiah 40:31, "mount up with wings."
Builds LP relationships with faith-aligned family offices and high-net-worth individuals. Develops deal sourcing network within the kingdom business community. Begins deploying capital.
Establishes Broadwing's position in the emerging kingdom capital ecosystem — alongside Sovereign's Capital, Praxis, Faith Driven Investor, and others. The fund's thesis gains traction as LPs seek alternatives to both secular PE and concessionary impact.
Continues building track record. The proof of the thesis requires patience — private equity returns manifest over fund cycles. Kerlin's job now is execution: finding operators who embody the thesis and backing them decisively.
New funds are hungry, focused, and unconstrained by legacy portfolio decisions. Broadwing's small size is a feature, not a bug — it enables high-conviction concentrated positions, deep operator relationships, and the ability to move faster than larger funds. Every great fund was Fund I once. Sequoia was Fund I once. Kerlin is betting that kingdom-aligned PE is a permanently underserved market — and that being early is the edge.
Faith-aligned families control trillions in aggregate wealth. Most of it is deployed through secular advisors into secular funds. The hunger for aligned, market-rate alternatives is enormous and growing. Broadwing positions itself at this intersection — offering institutional-quality PE to LPs who want their capital deployed in alignment with their deepest convictions without sacrificing returns.
"The kingdom capital market is where impact investing was 20 years ago — before it proved that values and returns aren't in tension. We're making the same proof, from a different foundation." — Eliot Kerlin, LP presentation
Eliot Kerlin is proving that kingdom alignment generates alpha — not through concessionary thinking, but through the mechanical advantages of integrity, patience, and relational depth in private markets. If Broadwing's thesis validates over fund cycles, it opens the floodgates for institutional kingdom capital currently sitting in secular vehicles by default.
Direct: As a new fund founder, Kerlin is actively building relationships and is highly accessible to potential LPs, co-investors, and deal sources.
Via Faith Driven Investor: Broadwing operates within the FDI ecosystem — conferences, communities, and LP networks that serve as natural access points.
Via Kingdom Capital Peers: Connected to Sovereign's Capital, Praxis, and other kingdom-aligned funds. Peer relationships create warm introduction paths.
Via LP Network: Any existing Broadwing LP can provide warm introductions. Family offices in the faith-aligned wealth community are tightly networked.
Via Deal Co-Investment: Offering co-investment opportunities on deals creates natural relationship-building moments with aligned capital partners.
New fund, ancient thesis — proving that covenant-level integrity is the highest-returning asset class in private markets.