Founded in 2015, SWaN Hill Top House Hotel LLC was organized out of SWaN & Legend Venture Partners in order to promote and grow the vision of bringing the Hill Top House Hotel to reality. The combined team has a diverse background in leading and growing businesses, with specific expertise in retail and consumer businesses, investments, real estate development, politics and construction. Founded in 2012, SWaN & Legend Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies that are building engaging brands worthy of consumers’ passions in the fields of retail products and services; technology-enabled commerce and education; food and hospitality; sports and entertainment; and health and wellness. SWaN works closely with partners to invest in innovative early and growth-stage organizations headed by top-flight teams. They seek to be active and influential in the companies in which they invest, providing guidance, support, resources, and confidence to the teams. Collectively, the partners have raised more than $5 billion of institutional financing and participated in more than 150 private investments. The partners are intellectually curious, politically active and charitable in the Washington, DC and New York business communities.
Development Team
DEVELOPMENT TEAM
SWaN & Legend Venture Partners have interests in a number of well-respected organizations, some of whom we believe could provide strategic value to the Hill Top House Hotel and the greater Harpers Ferry community. These include:
- Airbnb
- Anonymous Content
- Beefsteak
- Berkshire Partners
- Cava
- CustomInk
- DuraStat
- Founding Farmers
- Framebridge
- Freeman Spogli
- Gwynnie Bee/CaaStle
- INOVA Health System
- José Andrés Think Food Group
- KIND Healthy Snacks
- La Lumiere
- Mars Reel
- Monumental Sports and Entertainment
- MusiCapital
- NEW Asurion
- Noodle Companies
- Novak Biddle Venture Partners
- Oaklawn Development Partners
- One Night
- Optoro
- OrderGroove
- Professional Fighter’s League
- Real Time Cases
- Shinola
- Shoe’s Cup & Cork
- Showfields
- Sugar23
- SV Angel
- Team Liquid
- UrbanStems
- Capital One Arena
- Washington Capitals
- Washington Nationals
- Washington Mystics
- Washington Wizards
- WTHN
These award-winning shows were produced by SWaN portfolio entities:
Cinema
- Big Miracle
- Spotlight
- The Revenant
- Worth
- Collateral Beauty
Television
- Schitt’s Creek
- The Knick
- 13 Reasons Why
- Dickinson
- Mr. Robot
- True Detective
- Airbnb
- Anonymous Content
- Beefsteak
- Berkshire Partners
- Cava
- CustomInk
- DuraTap
- Founding Farmers
- Framebridge
- Freeman Spogli
- Gwynnie Bee/CaaStle
- INOVA Health System
- José Andrés Think Food Group
- KIND Healthy Snacks
- La Lumiere
- Mars Reel
- Monumental Sports and Entertainment
- MusiCapital
- NEW Asurion
- Noodle Companies
- Novak Biddle Venture Partners
- Oaklawn Development Partners
- One Night
- Optoro
- OrderGroove
- Professional Fighter’s League
- Real Time Cases
- Shinola
- Shoe’s Cup & Cork
- Showfields
- Sugar23
- SV Angel
- Team Liquid
- UrbanStems
- Capital One Arena
- Washington Capitals
- Washington Nationals
- Washington Mystics
- Washington Wizards
- WTHN
These award-winning shows were produced by SWaN portfolio entities:
Cinema
- Big Miracle
- Spotlight
- The Revenant
- Worth
- Collateral Beauty
Television
- Schitt’s Creek
- The Knick
- 13 Reasons Why
- Dickinson
- Mr. Robot
- True Detective
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