Our Investment Focus

FTVentures invests growth capital in business services and software companies offering meaningful solutions to the global financial services industry. We partner with talented management teams, providing growth capital to finance organic expansion, recapitalizations, build-ups and buyouts, and contributing our industry expertise and professional network to help build successful companies. We invest in companies that will benefit from our highly differentiated value proposition featuring our Global Partner Network. FTVentures' unmatched Global Partner Network includes our strategic limited partners, many of the world's leading financial institutions. We work actively with our portfolio companies to drive meaningful business traction across the Global Partner Network and have a successful track record of helping our portfolio companies build increased market momentum.

Investment Size and Uses of Capital
We invest from $10 million to $60 million in our portfolio companies. We typically lead investments in companies that are:

  • Seeking to fund rapid organic growth
  • Recapitalizing to optimize capital structure and/or meet the liquidity needs of shareholders
  • Pursuing an acquisition-intensive strategy requiring capital
  • Spinning-off operations from a parent corporation

Industry Focus
We invest primarily in business services and software companies that target the global financial services industry, where we have proven experience and an enduring network of partners, as a key industry vertical. A majority of FTVentures' portfolio companies also focus beyond the financial services industry to serve other large vertical markets with delivery of innovative, best-in-class offerings.

Portfolio Company Attributes
FTVentures seeks to partner with talented management teams and companies that have a product or service offering with a strong customer value proposition in a viable growth market with significant barriers to entry and manageable competition. Generally, our portfolio companies have limited technology risk and are generating revenues from referenceable customers.