2023 in Review - Founders Circle Capital

Throughout 2023, we were pleased to see companies in the Founders Circle Capital portfolio and The Circle community forge ahead with remarkable grit, resilience, and adaptability.

As we look forward to 2024, we remain focused on supporting current and future portfolio companies and continuing to build a leading community for growth stage executives and management teams.

With the closing of our fourth fund this past year, totaling nearly $1.3B under management, we reflect on how, over the past 11 years, we have been privileged to invest in 85 companies, 19 of which are now publicly listed. 24 more were acquired by strategics.

Core to our investment strategy are the investments we make in the professional and leadership development of the people who build companies—powered by a private community, The Circle—and in allowing those companies and their leaders to keep building.

In a tumultuous year for the venture and startup ecosystem, we have remained disciplined in our investment approach, focused on deploying capital to market-leading companies with exceptional management teams and demonstrable capital efficiency. We are proud to support these exceptional companies across these fast-growing sectors. ¹

In another year of macroeconomic headwinds, community members of The Circle showed up for one another, offering peer support and actionable insights with every new challenge that came their way.

We’re deeply inspired by the “give to get” ethos, raw vulnerability, and commitment to excellence shared by all members of The Circle. This is precisely why we created The Circle – to give leaders a space to scale themselves while they scale their companies.

Connecting leaders within and outside of our investment portfolio, building an ecosystem of shared learning.

Best practices and scar tissue on operational and leadership challenges leaders face in their day-to-day.

Playbooks to help identify and onboard exceptional leaders across the C-suite that help drive the next phase of transformational growth because great people make great companies.

From us to you, may your 2024 be a year of fortitude, health, and ambition.

Cheers to another year of investing in exceptional companies and the people building them.

Alyson Stemas

Community Leader

Amy Aina

Investment Administration

Ana Bharadwaj

Investor

Andrew Boston

Partner

Anthony Matusich

Chief Financial Officer

Audrey Vallen

Chief Administrative Officer

Charles Shannon

Partner

Kalee Gardella

Partner
Chief Community Officer, The Circle

Ken Loveless

Partner
Co-Founder

Marilu Livermore

Partner
Chief Growth Officer, The Circle

Mark Dempster

Founder, The Circle

Mike Jung

Partner
Co-Founder

Owen Van Arsdale

Investor

Rebecca Wood

Partner

Ryan Morrison

Partner

Tyler Zengo

Investor

1) Total Invested by Investment Theme across all FCC Funds.

Throughout 2023, we were pleased to see companies in the Founders Circle Capital portfolio and The Circle community forge ahead with remarkable grit, resilience, and adaptability.

As we look forward to 2024, we remain focused on supporting current and future portfolio companies and continuing to build a leading community for growth stage executives and management teams.

With the closing of our fourth fund this past year, totaling nearly $1.3B under management, we reflect on how, over the past 11 years, we have been privileged to invest in 85 companies, 19 of which are now publicly listed. 24 more were acquired by strategics.

Core to our investment strategy are the investments we make in the professional and leadership development of the people who build companies—powered by a private community, The Circle—and in allowing those companies and their leaders to keep building.

In another year of macroeconomic headwinds, community members of The Circle showed up for one another, offering peer support and actionable insights with every new challenge that came their way.

We’re deeply inspired by the “give to get” ethos, raw vulnerability, and commitment to excellence shared by all members of The Circle. This is precisely why we created The Circle – to give leaders a space to scale themselves while they scale their companies.

Connecting leaders within and outside of our investment portfolio, building an ecosystem of shared learning.

Best practices and scar tissue on operational and leadership challenges leaders face in their day-to-day.

The State of Venture Debt

Playbooks to help identify and onboard exceptional leaders across the C-suite that help drive the next phase of transformational growth because great people make great companies.

From us to you, may your 2024 be a year of fortitude, health, and ambition.

Cheers to another year of investing in exceptional companies and the people building them.

Alyson Stemas

Amy Aina

Ana Bharadwaj

Andrew Boston

Anthony Matusich

Audrey Vallen

Charles Shannon

Kalee Gardella

Ken Loveless

Marilu Livermore

Mark Dempster

Mike Jung

Owen Van Arsdale

Rebecca Wood

Ryan Morrison

Tyler Zengo

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