Operating companies
Businesses we found, run and own: an AI music platform, a security-testing firm and a software partnership.
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Global Harris
Builders and owners of technology, media and land. We start companies, operate them for the long term, and back founders we believe in.
What we do
Five ways we build and hold value.
Global Harris is the parent of one founder-operator’s businesses. Each pillar is run with the same discipline: understand the problem from first principles, own the outcome, and think in decades.
Venture studio
A disciplined process for turning hard problems into companies, and for killing ideas that should not be built.
How the studio worksInvestments
Private financing through Red Rock Holdings, and angel investments across data centers, healthcare, real estate and transportation.
Our investingDigital assets
A portfolio of 30+ premium domains across security, media, AI and lifestyle, available to the right builders.
Browse domainsLand & real assets
Long-horizon holdings in land, including Norway Canyon Ranch, owned and operated.
Real assetsTrack record
Built, scaled, and sold.
Since 1993 · 80M+ customers · 170+ countries. Earned across infrastructure, internet trust, security, media and capital.
1993building since
80M+customers served
170+countries reached
30+angel investments
Companies founded and led by Scott Harris have served 80M+ customers in 170+ countries since 1993.
1993 · Infrastructure
Founded Internet Direct, Inc., an internet service provider, in 1993; built and sold it.
Early operating experience in networks, customers and scale.
2001 · Internet trust
Founded SecureTrust → Trustwave → acquired by Singtel (2015)
Clients included Amway, Coldwell Banker and Logitech, plus 10,000+ more. Its roots are still issuing certificates today.
Security testing
Runs NexOasis.
Logical and physical penetration testing for banks and financial institutions.
Federal PKI
Represents STRAC on the Federal PKI Policy Authority.
Through NexOasis, built and advises a Federal Bridge cross-certified identity provider, trusted in 46 states and four U.S. territories.
Media & AI
Founder & CEO of EPonGO.
An AI music platform for artists and listeners.
Capital
30+ angel investments, and private financing since 1997.
Angel investing, many through StartUpNV, plus structured financing through Red Rock Holdings.
Selected portfolio
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We would rather build one durable company than announce ten. Patience is the strategy.