How it works

We write the first check and stay.

Five stages. Part of what comes back pays for the next one.

01

Georgians put money in

Individuals, exited founders, family offices, corporations, foundations and funds. The money is deployed in Georgia.

02

We underwrite and place it

Diligence, terms, and the instrument the business can pay. Money is staged against milestones.

03

Founders get more than money

Named people, matched to one company, on a standing commitment. A first customer is worth more than the check and takes longer to arrange.

04

Companies grow and hire here

Payroll, suppliers, tax base, and a reason to stay in the county you grew up in.

05

Returns come home

The large majority goes to the investors who took the risk. Smaller shares fund the next company and pay for founder cover. The exact split is in the offering documents.

Success should compound. Each turn pays for the next company and for the founders the last turn cost.

What happens next

One check in. Two ways back.

The instrument is set at the start, from how the business makes money.

Our check
$50K to $500K, first money in

Repays out of revenue

The company stays with its founders and repays us out of what it earns. No sale and no next round required.

Raises again

Seed and growth investors come in behind us. It resolves in a sale or a later round, years out.

Check sizes are a policy range and are set company by company. Nothing here is a projection of any return.

What a company gets

The support is the product.

Eight kinds of help, attached to one company, drawn from people who have already agreed to give it.

Customers and market accessIntroductions that turn into revenue
Mentors and coachesPeople who have run this before
Operations and financeBooks, systems, and knowing the numbers
Talent and hiringThe first ten people
Product and technologyTechnical help without a full-time hire
Legal and complianceThe paperwork that has to be right the first time
Healthcare and wellbeingCoverage for the founder and the team
University resourcesLabs, research, students, facilities

When it does not work

Most of these companies will fail.

That is the base case, and everything above is built around it.

A founder who is caught keeps their health coverage, gets a wind-down that does not take their savings, and keeps the people they met through us. Georgia loses the company either way. It does not have to lose the person, and that is the part almost nobody funds.

Founder security and the Resilience Fund

How often it fails, and what the research says a first check is worth anyway, is on the case.

Returns, and what you do with them

Most of it to the people who took the risk.

You decide how much of yours stays in.

Back to investorsThe large majority. This is the point.
ReinvestedGoes straight back out to the next company
Founder SecurityHealthcare and wellbeing while they build
Founder Resilience FundIf the company ends
Direct your own shareYou can change the default split.
Decide now, or decide laterSet it once at the start, or choose again each time a return arrives.
Recycle it, or take all of itSome investors put everything back in. Some take the full return.

Exact percentages, election mechanics and timing are offering terms, available to qualified investors through definitive documents. Nothing here is an offer or a projection of any return.

Put money in, or bring us a company.

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