The Founders Club is a global venture capital vehicle where CEOs and founders of VC backed companies pool together a small percentage of their personal future equity upside in return for becoming Limited Partner "investors" in a ground breaking entrepreneur equity exchange portfolio.

Members of The Founders Club agree to pay a small percentage of their personal cash exits from an IPO or M&A transaction to the club and the club distributes that cash to all the members in that specific portfolio. Founders benefit from diversification and liquidity, but the primary reason to join is because members believe that their slightly diluted exit with the help of the Keiretsu (Founders Club network) is worth more than 100% of their exit without the support of our entrepreneurs and VCs. The reason many join is simply to use their equity to make a smart, tax efficient investment alongside the top VCs into other highly filtered technology companies.

Portfolio members work together helping each other reach key milestones, access each others' investors, share commercial contacts and exchange advice resulting in removing risk from each participating company and higher IRR’s for their investors. The Founders Club also draws upon a formal network of Venture Advisors comprised of senior VCs, corporates, investment bankers and entrepreneurs to vet applicants and assist our portfolios.

Our portfolios companies are headquartered on the West Coast, East Coast, across Europe and Israel. We are currently accepting new members into three separate portfolios:

• Healthcare & Life Science (Biotech Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, Healthcare IT & Services)
• Technology & Cleantech (classic ITC, Mediatech & Environmentally friendly technology)
• Later Stage Technology (all companies with revenues of at least $25M USD) 

All applications, company information and participants are strictly confidential, but we encourage you to speak directly with us and meet other members at any of our periodic networking events or private meetings. Just like the VCs that invest in our portfolio companies we make a long term commitment to company building.

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