Founder Friendly Capital
ff Venture Capital partners with startups that can be the low cost, disruptive player in their respective industry. With the right management team and adequate financing, our companies can grow to become tomorrow's leaders. Our goal is to build great companies and generate significant returns for our partners: management teams and investors alike.
We are generalists, not specialists, preferring to invest in growth where we find it and to not box ourselves into the theme du jour, where the rest of the crowd is flocking. This flexibility is part of our success at generating industry leading returns. However, we invest only in areas we understand and know.
Our Record
Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies, and from the beginning we have been highly focused on generating industry leading returns. Among our most successful seed investments that have reached maturity are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007). We have a large crop of exciting high growth companies in our portfolios, and we expect to have similar exits as these companies mature and grow.
Just The Right Size
By deliberately running relatively small funds, we are able to better align everyone's interests and be one of a handful of professional investors in smaller, angel-sized rounds. We work hard with our CEOs, as their testimonials show, to help them get to the next level. We also continue to invest in and support our companies in later rounds as they execute their long-term plans.
Accelerating Your Growth
We offer our companies space and a wide range of professional support services to aid in the transformation from scrappy startup to global dominator!
