About
Two decades.
One defining
skill.
Rick Doty (Richard Lee Doty II) has spent his career at the intersection of technology, strategy, and entrepreneurship. Based in the Chicagoland area, he is Co-Founder and Partner at Evernet Capital, investing in the foundational technologies of the next industrial era.
"What defines Rick most as an investor is pattern recognition — the ability to see signal in noise, identify emerging trends before they surface, and understand what connects seemingly unrelated markets."
That skill wasn't learned in a classroom. It was built across decades of experience in industries where reading the room isn't a nice-to-have, it's survival. Rick's early career was spent building and running successful real estate offices and his own practice — a ground-level education in how businesses operate, scale, and compete. Simultaneously, he spent years as a performer in the music business, handling his own booking, negotiations, and career strategy.
Both worlds demanded the same core skill: recognize patterns, anticipate shifts, and act before the market catches up. That instinct has never left him.
Those years led Rick to the energy sector, where he became a foundational presence at a materials science company developing globally patented nanomaterial technologies for next-generation batteries, solar, and aerospace applications — connecting him to the curated consortium of scientists and engineers that today anchors Evernet Capital's sourcing network.