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Our investment approach uniquely combines our financial services industry expertise and our Global Partner Network to deliver value-added partnerships to our portfolio companies and superior risk-adjusted returns to our Limited Partners. The key attributes of our approach include:
Investment Team
Expertise
Our portfolio companies leverage our investment team's 300 plus years of financial services industry expertise in private equity/venture capital, technology, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, and transaction processing. This experience includes management and operations, public and private investing, and financial transactions (mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and restructurings).
Global Partner
Network
Our unmatched Global Partner Network, including many of the world's leading financial institutions, provides us with a unique vantage point into the business-driven IT and operating needs of the global enterprise. FTVResources, our in-house information platform and communications program, is managed by a dedicated business development team and facilitates ongoing collaboration within our Global Partner Network, which results in
- enhanced market intelligence and investment ideas
- a more efficient investment-decision making process, and
- expanded distribution and customer relationships.
We have a proven track record of helping our portfolio companies achieve significantly higher degrees of market knowledge and customer traction, making our Global Partner Network highly attractive to executives and entrepreneurs seeking to enter or expand within the financial services vertical with their product/service offerings as well as expand beyond into other vertical markets.
Team
Approach
We employ a team approach in our investment decision-making process as well as our ongoing portfolio company support, allowing us to optimize our industry and operational expertise. Our investment team is organized around business services and software teams, providing focus and efficient professional resource allocation. Our business development team works closely with our investment team to develop commercial relationships between portfolio companies and the leading financial services companies that comprise our Global Partner Network.
Focus on
Investment Structure
FTVentures is comfortable working with various transaction structures and customized investment terms to best meet the objectives of management, while optimizing the investment opportunity and aligning incentives with co-investors and management.
Active Engagement
with Portfolio Companies
Our goal is to provide value to our portfolio companies throughout the investment lifecycle. We establish strong working relationships with the management teams we back and are active participants at the board level, developing strategic and operational plans, providing corporate development leadership and facilitating customer relationships and strategic alliances that accelerate sales cycles and help drive stronger market momentum.
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