WELCOME TO FC!

Founders Capital (FC) was founded by Richard Hadler and Hugo Tilmouth, two serial entrepreneurs, both listed on the Forbes 30u30 list. Both bring significant experience leading companies in B2B Tech, Marketing, and D2C, and are passionate about supporting the next generation of game-changing startups.

We firmly believe 2 things:

  1. Investing in the right team at the right time can help businesses achieve exceptional growth and create meaningful impact.

  2. The traditional venture landscape is broken. The best portfolios are diversified across stage and industry.

Our investment community is open to founders and seasoned business professionals. As a member of FC, you will receive top 1% access to our deal-flow of the most exciting start-ups and scale ups across the globe.

Members can review and invest in opportunities on a deal-by-deal basis, allowing you to pick and choose the deals that align with your investment strategy. As long as you meet our criteria, it's free to Join Founders Capital.

diverse portfolios are the best portfolios

We believe that the most effective private markets portfolios are thoughtfully weighted across multiple different industries and stages. Concentrating solely on early-stage investments brings excessive risk, while focusing only on late-stage opportunities may mean missing out on big returners. FC offers members a carefully customised selection of opportunities to help build a well balanced investment portfolio.

Meet the Team

What our investors say

  • "I have been investing with founders capital for over 18 months - the dealflow is truly excellent and the team make everything look effortless"

    David Pearce, Investor

  • "I've never seen such high quality dealflow. founders capital allows me to build an investment portfolio like no other"

    Oli Farago, Investor

  • "I've got exposure across a number of different assets but Founders capital gives me insight and confidence to build my private investments"

    Elvijus Griksas, Investor

FAQs

  • We are an investment community for founders and senior operators, providing investment opportunities in to hottest Seed stage to Pre-IPO companies on the planet.

    We're not a fund. We provide you access to deal-by-deal investment opportunities.

    You get to choose which companies you do or don't want to invest in.

    We currently have 1,000+ members who are some of the most illustrious founders and influential start-up experts all over the world.

    We are able to access the most prestigious early stage deals due to the quality of our LP base and the most hard-to-access late stage deals due to our vast US VC network.

    Founders Capital mainly make money on successful exits, so we are incentivised to bring the best deals to the community. We charge a flat 20% carry fee upon exit (a fee on the profit).

  • Founders Capital invests in predominantly B2B Tech companies in Europe & the US. We look for opportunities with amazing founders that meet our investment criteria and have the potential for exceptional growth and impact.

  • We source deals through our network of industry experts, founders, and investors. We also receive referrals from our existing portfolio companies and partner organisations.

    Early stage: We currently see 250+ opportunities per month, we will typically undertake more in-depth due diligence into around 5% of these opportunities and typically run at least 1 deal per month through our community.

    Late stage: We have a an extensive network amongst some of the largest global late-stage funds. This network has enabled us to invest in some of the most high profile companies in the world, including: SpaceX, Perplexity and Anduril.

  • We are never the biggest investor on the cap table and we do not profess to offer an overwhelming list of services to our portfolio founders.

    Founders Capital is a group of seasoned operators and Founders. When we invest, we let our investee founders know we’re always here if they need to chat about anything. We position ourselves as the investors that have “seen it all before” and are on hand if needed, but never overbearing!

    As we group together a number of highly talented individuals, it’s up to the underlying investors if they wish provide operational support to the companies they invest in.

    If you are a founder of a company looking to raise you can apply for funding here.

  • We share new investment opportunities with our members on a regular basis. The frequency of new opportunities will depend on the number of high-quality deals in our pipeline.

    We typically to launch a minimum of 1 early stage and 1 late stage deal per month.

  • Yes. We can handle investments from investors globally into companies anywhere. We do suggest that you seek your own tax advice however. Whilst we use a tax transparent investment structure the tax implications on your investments would be led by the legislation you are domiciled in.

What our Portfolio founders say

  • "The investment process with founders capital was seamless - they made everything so easy and are great investors to boot!"

    Vic Peppiatt, Founder of Hey Savi

  • "Richard And Hugo have been instrumental for us at winefi since day one. They have been the most value-add investors any founder could ask for"

    Callum Woodcock, Founder of WineFi

  • "We had extremely short deadlines to close our round, The fc team executed to perfection and we're really glad to have them on our cap table"

    Christian Facey, Founder of Audiomob

WELCOME TO VC 2.0

Join the 1,000+ Entrepreneurs, Operators and Investors building diverse private market portfolios through Founders Capital.

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