One size does not fit all.
your company and personal balance sheets.
We’re organized and operate like any venture firm you know. Primarily, we buy common stock from your team. Occasionally, we purchase preferred stock from your company. We work by invitation only of management and the blessing of the board.
For when your company needs to accelerate its growth. The timing and dollar amounts are unpredictable. What you can be certain of is the insatiable financial appetite of your business that is hyperscaling from product-market fit to go-to-market fit, to insane employee hiring to new product development to the eve of your IPO. The beast needs to be constantly fed or risk having the metrics curves take a turn in the wrong direction.
For when you and your team need to pay for life’s needs. Having started at the company when everyone was single, living dorm style and surviving on pizza, many now have obligations but subsist on a start-up salary and possess illiquid paper wealth. Plus, the FAANGs try to poach your best people while corporate development attempts to woo you into an acquisition.
Conversations with a founder or an executive have been triggered by innumerable personal circumstances. But they center on either alleviating an executive’s distraction away from your company or a deep desire to retain your best people.