Venture First

Venture First provides capital and financial services to growth-focused companies. VF manages 5 funds and a suite of SPVs. 
Our Private Equity Digital Transformation activities center around locating mature, cash-flowing companies with strong operators that we can acquire for reasonable multiples before leveraging our data and technology playbook, as well as our operating partner network, to accelerate growth. Though there are countless companies that need modernizing, it takes a great deal of time, effort, and focus to identify the right opportunities and execute a plan to supercharge them. Our Venture Capital investments focus on promising Data & Technology companies in the “fly-over” states. Typically overlooked by coastal VCs, these companies are often dramatically more capital-efficient than their large-market peers, are available at more reasonable valuations, and greatly benefit from the connective tissue that Venture First provides to get them to the next level. While most VCs plan for a high failure rate and bank on a “unicorn” making the returns for the portfolio, we carefully nurture our portfolio, resulting in only two negative return investments ever. Even in the venture space, we’re always working to cap risk.