Founders Equity Partners

Founders Equity Partners, often shortened to FEP, works in the secondary market. It concentrates on releasing value for founders, employees and early investors in private companies who wish to sell their shares.

What Founders Equity Partners offers

• Direct secondary investment: buys shares from existing holders so they gain liquidity.
• Liquidity for founders: helps company founders realise part of the value they have built.
• Liquidity for employees and early investors: gives staff and early backers a route to sell.
• Company-focused approach: says its team works with the company's own interests in mind.

Customers and markets

Founders, employees and early backers of private companies.

Key facts

• Founder and Executive Chairman: Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.
• Leadership: several founders and managing directors with venture capital and private equity experience
• Specialism: direct secondary investments