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OUR VISION

ffVC companies are led by visionary founders that solve mission critical problems, disrupt markets, and change consumer behaviors. At the crux of these value propositions are proprietary technologies that scale rapidly to billion-dollar enterprises. ffVC’s platform team is an integral part of the portfolio management process by fostering a supportive community that aims to accelerates a startup’s journey from seed funding to exit. From helping founders fundraise their follow-on rounds to providing workshops and tools for business growth and more, ffVC’s platform initiatives constantly adapt to changing markets and individual founders’ needs.

Joining The Ecosystem

As a testament of our relationship with our founder network, 80% of the fund’s deal flow is generated through the ffVC ecosystem. This flywheel is further amplified by our platform operations that have been recognized industrywide for its high community engagement (3x above the venture industry average), in distinguishing our holdings in the broader startup community. This network includes preparing startups to meet with ffVC’s growth equity partners that encompasses over 700 VC firms as founders ready themselves for latter stage rounds. This is accomplished through a regular a cadence of sector specific events, founder-day summits, portfolio best-practice webinars, investor roundtables, and a newsletter with a subscriber base of over 30,000 members.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PART OF THE ffVC FAMILY

We work with founders to help them succeed: across the venture-backed landscape, around one third of Seed stage companies go on to raise a Series A round and 10% go on to raise a Series B round. ffVC portfolio companies are three more times likely to raise a Series A and five more times likely to raise a Series B.

We help companies set up for the journey ahead, financially, operationally, and mentally. When you join our family, it means having a community of peers that you can learn from and lean on, a network full of talent and co-investors, and supporters who are a text message away.

The support we have received from ffVC was “phenomenal.” They have had a huge impact on Skycatch. Operational efficiency is now in our DNA because the message was “hammered” in from the get go. But ffVC support goes way beyond metrics. John has helped us think through product strategy, fundraise and has rare stamina to stay both actively engaged and relevant, with a “sixth sense” of when to offer help and support.
Christian Sanz
Christian SanzFounder, CEO, Skycatch
From the earliest stage of an idea, ffVC had the technical expertise to spot the potential in Burro. The breadth of their team’s experience with early stage tech businesses helped us ‘cut through the chaos’ and identify the KPIs and metrics that drive customer satisfaction. That was instrumental in helping us scale an autonomy business in agriculture – something that no company has successfully done to date.
Charlie Anderson
Charlie AndersonCEO, Burro

An Inclusive Community

The ffVC community is a place where founders and our teams can feel fully welcome in our family. We have invested in founders with a broad range of backgrounds, contexts, and identities and we work hard to maintain a culture of support, empathy, and open communication.

Platform Support For You And Your Team

Over 100 Roundtable Learning Opportunities Each Year

Active best practice communities across 18 key areas (from pricing strategy and data science to sales to engineering) provide our founders and their teams the opportunity to work through ideas, challenges, and quickly discover best practice frameworks in an active informed community of founders

LEVERAGE THE EXTENSIVE AND DYNAMIC ffVC ECOSYSTEM

We’ve built active relationships with well over 1,000 investors, and with our micro-communities of VCs, we help founders make key connections faster. We cultivate this activity through conversational-style newsletters that we call the “G.A.N.s” (short for Gives, Asks, and News) to keep you informed and connected - access the best learning, talent, and financial resources we find. Regular events and meetings mean you can tap quickly into resources, get questions answered, and move through bottlenecks faster.

Help with Hiring Needs

Our roundtable communities are growing into communities of talent from which our founders can hire quickly: we’ve been able to condense hiring timelines down to as little as two weeks because we shortcut them to a wide spectrum of talented operators. We also share curated talent with our portfolio companies on our ffVC Talent Network.

Fundraising Support

With a long-standing reputation within the U.S. venture ecosystem, and active communication with over 700 VC firms, we can help founders access follow on capital efficiently and effectively. We support you strategically to prioritize future investors and target them early with a structured fundraising process to save you time and distraction.

Knowing your investor cares and is in your corner helps a CEO on many levels. We think of ffVC as an extension of our team. Being able to call on John’s expertise to validate and vet ideas has been a huge factor in taking stress off the plate so I can better focus on the business and use my talents and skills in a more effective way. ffVC makes companies better.
Dave Shor
Dave ShorCEO, Lynq
Investors always ask ‘Why now?’ The reality is we’ve been waiting for this level of disruption for decades. The scope of opportunities being created now is massive and it’s a fantastic time to be starting a new company. Even better to be starting with ffVC in your corner. ffVC take their responsibilities as investors very seriously, not typical for all VCs.
Cameron Howieson
Cameron HowiesonCo-Founder & CEO, Opencare
ffVC took a decisive view early on in supporting Rhino because of their deep understanding of the regulated markets we operate in; insurance, financial services and real estate. ffVC’s support let us take our idea from a pitch deck to first policy written only 4 months after closing and helped position Rhino for the successes we are seeing today.
Paraag Sarva
Paraag SarvaCEO and Co-Founder, Rhino
ffVC invests for the long term. Their strategic advice helped us identify new paths to growth, propelling our business to a position where EBITDA is growing leaps and bounds. Winning companies can struggle in the early years and having a patient, supportive partnership makes a big difference to a company’s ultimate success.
Andy Yang
Andy YangCEO, Indiegogo
The depth of support from the ffVC team is rare, their ability to draw on their network to make introductions is incredible at seed stage. John’s focus on cash on cash growth vs a paper return has enabled me to make better decisions for the business, positioning Gooten for long-term alpha creation, their support is truly informed and utterly differentiated among investors.
Brian Rainey
Brian RaineyCEO, Gooten
The business acumen and level of support offered by the ffVC team was night and day to what we had experienced before...Tapping into the wealth of experience from the other founders in the ffVC portfolio has been very helpful to fast track team development and been an invaluable benchmark for decision-making at every level.
Monica Landers
Monica LandersCEO, StoryFit
ffVC enabled us to scale our business as if we had a much bigger team. And ffVC had the wherewithal to stay with us at a time when other VCs did not. Their consistent efforts and outreach influenced our outcome, leading us ultimately maximize exit multiples.
Shanna Johnson
Shanna JohnsonCEO, Cielo24
ffVC's support is appropriately nuanced to the needs of our business. Their long-term alignment has enabled us to better grow a business in a changing industry and complex operating environment. Even after our Series B we elected to keep ffVC on the Board because we're convinced of the value they add.
Wayne Slavin
Wayne SlavinCo-Founder and CEO, Sure
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