Standard Fund published research findings from the GAO regarding a ten-year blind spot in broadband deployment programs after the build, noting that inaccurate FCC location data can send money to the wrong places and that providers face a burdensome challenge process.

Broadband ownership in North America is fragmented into thousands of independent fiber operators, wireless ISPs, and telecom infrastructure businesses, most with no clear path to scale or exit. Standard consolidates that market. We acquire, integrate, and grow broadband infrastructure companies into one institutional platform. For founders, that means liquidity, a clean succession plan, and certainty of close. Their teams keep their jobs. Their customers keep their service. Our investment lifecycle runs on Archimedes, the AI operating system we built in-house. It sources and scores acquisition targets across the fragmented broadband market, tracks our pipeline from first outreach to close, and keeps watch on portfolio performance once a deal is done. Most funds our size hire analysts to do this work by hand. We built software instead.