We start & incubate
companies for you.

We work with existing landscape reports, or create our own, to help define areas of opportunity and barriers to returns or market scale. Our analysts compile reports from literature reviews, in-person interviews, and small scale surveys to help your investment advisors and principals decide how to proceed.

After we have created a general understanding of the landscape, we assess the barriers and opportunities with a custom criteria set. Each criteria set is based on your tolerance for risk, your expectation for returns, your investment time horizon, your interest in being involved and more. After this assessment, we use the results to create strategies to overcome each barrier and capitalize on each opportunity.

Knowing which direction to go in an existing or evergreen market starts with strong data and insights, and ends with intuition and vision. Further Faster creates the former to fuel the latter in a structured process. During a series of workshops and presentations, you will decide the investment thesis for the studio and we will begin to meet the people who make that industry move.

Having a position as a capital partner alone does not provide fruitful deal flow for two reasons: the capital is less competitive against other sources that come with expertise and other resources, and appears less authentic from a founder’s perspective. To create high quality deal flow, an investor needs to be immersed at every level of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, which most Family Offices, and foundations could use help with.

We cast a wide net, and then refine, to curate a list of qualified co-investors, and strategic partners like universities, foundations, and corporations. These partners can be social or financial capital sources, but often offer their expertise as contributions to grow a business and sometimes join as Advisors.

The health of deal flow, early hiring, and future funding rounds are tied to loose ties and strong relationships within the industry we’re exploring. We create relationships that are routinely nurtured, authentically helpful, and values-aligned so deals flow naturally and regularly.

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From the community and coalitions we build, we find founders who have professional experience in leadership roles, specific expertise, and a beginner’s mindset. While second time founders are ideal, we offer the most value to entrepreneurs with limited tech experience, or access to capital.

Diligence happens over several phone calls, individual review time, and culminates in workshops where core concerns are voiced. Further Faster will provide the investment advisory board with relevant artifacts and a scoring rubric that reflects the criteria determined by the team in the initial workshop.

Further Faster and our Sponsor will hold a final selection workshop to digest the evaluations, discuss the potential candidates, and select the final company or companies to proceed with. Notice is given shortly after, and onboarding begins.