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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Are Helping Founders Level Up

Founder-Friendly Investors
Graham Winfrey

WHETHER YOU NEED funding to help turn your startup into a successful business or to grow it into an industry leader, Inc.’s fourth annual Fo…

Alicia Sontag of Prelude Growth Partners; Heela Yang, CEO of Sol De Janeiro.

How PE Helped This Beauty Founder Land a Sale to L’Occitane

Founder-Friendly Investors
Ali Donaldson

Four years after founding the Brazilian- inspired beauty brand Sol de Janeiro in 2015, Heela Yang wasn’t looking for investors. Her company …

Powerhome founder Jayson Waller (left) and Trivest partner Jamie Elias.

How This Florida PE Firm Helped a Solar Business Grow Revenue More Than 15X

Founder-Friendly Investors
Kevin J. Ryan

When Jayson Waller says he’s fully invested in his solar company, Powerhome, he means it. In 2017, when the business was running low on capi…

How to Choose the Right Investor, According to a Coffee Entrepreneur Who Raised $100 Million

Founder-Friendly Investors
Anna Meyer

Seven years is a long time to wait for coffee. But that’s how long coffee startup Cometeer spent experimenting and iterating its frozen coff…

Grin co-founders from left: Brandon Brown, Brian Mechem, and Ryan Brown.

How This Marketing Company Is Powering Allbirds and Warby Parker

Founder-Friendly Investors
Anna Meyer

Building a client roster of fast-growing companies doesn’t happen without some fast growth of your own. Just ask the co-founders of Grin, a …

Bullhorn’s Founder Asked His Investors to Help His Business Grow. Their Solution: Buy 6 New Companies

Founder-Friendly Investors
Jill Krasny

IN 2017, BOSTON-BASED staffing technology firm Bullhorn was in fighting shape. The software maker had 500 employees and customers in approxi…

Meet 146 Investment Firms That Founders Will Love

Founder-Friendly Investors
Graham Winfrey

FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Private Equity Firms list has shined a light on the PE outfits that support founder-led comp…

Misfits Foods’ Investors Prepared the Company for Everything From a Major Pivot to a ‘Shark Tank’ Appearance

Founder-Friendly Investors
Kevin J. Ryan

VENTURE CAPITALIST SORAYA Darabi was on the way to San Francisco International Airport in 2018 when she got a phone call that stopped her in…

How a Venture Investor with a PhD in Genetics Helped This Biotech Firm Get Started, Funded, and Acquired

Founder-Friendly Investors
Joe Bargmann

IN 2016, INVENTOR and scientist Erik Gentalen reached out to a former colleague with exciting news, and a proposition.”I started a company, …

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