Founders Circle Capital

Founders Circle Capital
Private
Industry Venture capital, Private Equity Secondary Market
Founded 2012
Founders Ken Loveless, Mike Jung, Chris Albinson
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Website founderscircle.com

Founders Circle is a growth capital firm specializing in providing liquidity to founders and long-term employees through the purchase of their vested employee stock options (sometimes referred to as employee liquidity or direct secondaries). The firm structures aligned-liquidity programs that balance the needs of the company, the investors and the sellers.

Founders Circle works by invitation only of management and their boards, who are building today's Top 1% highest performing venture capital-backed start-ups. It invests out of its $195M Fund I,[1] and $208M Fund II.[2]

Founders[3] of the firm consist of three Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs, and executives: Mike Jung, Ken Loveless, and Chris Albinson.[4]

Investments

Founders Circle has invested in over 15 companies since 2012, amongst others: DocuSign, Kabam, Twilio, Pinterest, Ticketfly, and Elemental.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Founders Circle Capital Raises $195M for Secondary Share buys
  2. ↑ Founders Circle Raises $208M Fund for Secondary Deals
  3. ↑ Founders Circle Team
  4. ↑ Geron, Tomio (2016-09-16). "Founders Circle Raises $208M Fund for Secondary Deals". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
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