Section Partners

Section Partners provides personal financing to people who hold shares or options in venture-backed technology companies. Its aim is to let them release value from that equity without selling it.

What Section Partners offers

• Personal financing — loans structured against the value of a client's shares, described as the firm's core product.
• Stock option exercise financing — funding to exercise options, for example to reduce tax or beat an expiry date.
• Liquidity for teams — help for companies that want to give employees some access to the value of their equity.

Who it works with

Its clients are founders, executives and significant shareholders at venture-backed technology companies. The firm says clients keep ownership, control and any later gains, and that it also works with boards and general counsel.

Key facts

• Client type: Founders, executives and shareholders
• Typical uses: Major life events, starting a new company, buying a home, tax planning