Next FC Events

Paris - Early Autumn, 2009

London - Cleantech - September 24, 2009

London - Healthcare & Life Science - October 06, 2009

Tel Aviv – Technology & Cleantech October 19, 2009

Tel Aviv - Healthcare & Life Science October 22, 2009

Palo Alto, California - November 11, 2009

London - December 10, 2009

Benefits for Entrepreneurs

Join a keiretsu - a family of founders and angel investors that own stakes in each other's companies

Networking - entrepreneurs have a financial incentive to make each company a big success
Raise more VC funding from other VCs that invested in other members of the keiretsu
Turn to the CEOs in your keiretsu to bring more buyers to the table when selling your company reaching the best price and set of terms
Draw on global group of entrepreneurs to help recruit non-executive directors to improve your board of directors as well as help staffing your expansion into North America, Europe and Asia
Get connected to our highly successful Venture Advisors
95 to 90% of your exit with the help of the keiretsu is worth more than 100% of your personal exit without this assistance
Start your next venture with the help of the keiretsu
Access exclusive member section of FC online

Diversifying 5 to 10% of your future exit makes good financial sense for you and your family
Spread the risk and increase your liquidity the same way VCs do
Become a Limited Partner in a ground breaking venture capital portfolio
Benefit from becoming a Limited Partner investor without paying management fees
Make smart investments in technology companies using your equity to leverage the contact networks of our Venture Advisors, General Partners and existing members to recruit the best entrepreneurs into your portfolio / fund
Founders Club is a smart hedge and source of cash income until your exit and then becomes a very smart vehicle to invest in the best technology ventures backed by the top VCs
Have your cake and eat it too

Cash outs are when a founder sells some of his / her shares during a financing round. The venture might raise $50M and the two founders might each take $2.5M out in cash
This typically makes sense for the founder to get some cash and begin to enjoy life while building the value of the business and the eventual planned liquidity event
Smart VCs agree to this to not only keep the home life of the entrepreneur stable and align interests of the founders with the VCs to hold out for the optimal value and timing of an exit, but also because the VC knows that he is buying shares at a lower price than what he expects to sell the shares for. Simply put the VC is making a return for his LP investors buying low, waiting and selling high
The FC believes that founders should sell at the same optimal high price as VCs and share some of that cash among other select founders

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