Founder security and resilience
Nobody should have to choose between starting a company and protecting their family.
Two funds. One for while you are building. One for if it ends.
Founder Security
Health coverage for founders and the people they hire, and someone who knows the benefits system. It removes the most common reason a good operator never leaves their job.
Founder Resilience Fund
The fund carries a founder through the months between one thing ending and the next one starting. The relationship does not end with the company.
Why this exists
This is an economic problem.
Health coverage tied to a job is a measurable brake on how many people ever start a company.
of entrepreneurs surveyed reported a lifetime mental health condition, against 32 percent of a comparison group. Counting family history, 72 percent were affected.
Business ownership jumps in the month a person turns 65 and Medicare begins. Economists call the effect entrepreneurship lock.
fall in entry into self-employment for every one percent rise in benchmark exchange premiums.
of net new jobs come from firms one to five years old. The people who start them are the ones this protects.
Freeman et al., Small Business Economics, 2019, n=242 entrepreneurs and 93 comparisons. Fairlie, Kapur and Gates, RAND and Kauffman Foundation. Fossen et al., Small Business Economics, 2025. Stangler and Litan, Kauffman Foundation. United States figures.
Founder Security
Coverage, while you build.
Available to founders in the portfolio and to the people they hire.
The Resilience Fund
The company can fail. We keep the founder.
Most companies will not work. That is arithmetic. What Georgia cannot afford is to lose the person along with the company.
Healthcare bridge
Coverage does not stop the day the company does.
Transition support
A wind-down that does not take your savings with it.
Coaching, and a way back in
Someone who has been through the same thing, and introductions into the network you helped build.
The next company
First call on the next idea, if there is one.
Eligibility, amounts and duration are set in program terms and are not open-ended. The fund is funded from a share of returns and from philanthropic partners.
When founders fail, we keep the human capital.
A founder who is caught once usually builds again, and usually builds better. A founder who is not usually leaves the state and takes ten years of learning with them. That is the entire calculation.