Founders Circle Capital

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 Capital
TypePrivate
IndustryVenture capital, Private Equity Secondary Market
Founded2012
Founders
  • Ken Loveless
  • Mike Jung
  • Chris Albinson
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
USA
Websitefounderscircle.com

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 40 companies since 2012, amongst others: Adaptive Insights,[5] Anaplan,[6] Carbon Black,[7] DocuSign,[8] Elemental,[4] Kabam, Twilio,[8] Pinterest, and Ticketfly.

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.
  5. "Adaptive Insights - Investors". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  6. Geron, Tomio (2016-09-16). "Founders Circle Raises $208M Fund for Secondary Deals". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  7. "Carbon Black - Investors". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  8. "Founders Circle Capital". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
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