VF manages 5 funds and a suite of SPVs. Financial services, including CFO Services, Accounting, Valuation, and Transaction Support nurture the ecosystem.
We believe in long-term partnership. We typically charge competitive rates for our services and often include long-term equity or bonus incentives for complete alignment. In our experience, this is how winning teams are formed and long-term alliances are established.
Through partnership, we’ve fostered and supported a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem in an ongoing effort to drive innovation.
Venture First is more than the sum of its investments and services. Entrepreneurs who are growing their companies are supported by our technologies and methodologies. We enable investors who provide capital for these endeavors. By facilitating the network of people who make new visions thrive, we enable the commerce that fuels these activities.
Venture First provides a range of financial services, including transaction stewardship, intensive CFO leadership, insightful valuation analysis, detailed accounting, market intelligence, and a highly curated family of specialty funds. Over time, we will continue to add new offerings to further support this venture ecosystem.
International CLIENT Portfolio Includes:
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, U.K. and Peru
Founder and CEO, John Shumate, began valuing venture stage companies from his hospital bed to pay the bills when he was receiving a stem cell transplant.
CEOs and VCs liked John’s work and business grows. Will Baumgardner joined Venture First as first employee.
Client CEO asked John to serve as fractional CFO. This was the genesis for our CFO Services vertical and the beginning of a 5-year partnership with our first client company.
Accounting services were added to Venture First’s product offering to fully integrate client’s needs and increase efficiency in CFO reporting.
Depth of valuation products expanded with hiring of first practice-lead; Venture First secures first office space in NuLu, entrepreneurial hub of Louisville.
Venture First launched a portfolio of targeted niche funds to fill funding gaps and to reward forward-thinking investors in the venture and alternatives markets.
The company kicked off its private equity digital transformation strategy with the acquisition of Dealer Trade Network.
The company’s private equity strategy took off with the G&G Fitness structured recapitalization.
Venture First acquired Scottsdale Construction Systems and pushed to disrupt the residential and light commercial construction industries.
Venture first is continuing to expand its partner network through the operation of 5 funds, 8 Special purpose vehicles, 30+ current services clients, and a growing investor network.
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