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Founders First Capital Partners: Grow the business. Keep the business.
A lender for overlooked service businesses has a simple proposition: borrow against revenue, keep your equity, and get help making the next dollar. The interesting part is what happens between the cheque and the repayment.
The Loan That Learned to Read Three Countries
Efficient Capital Labs found a peculiar gap in startup finance: a software company can be global, while its lender still thinks one country at a time. Its answer is a fast, data-heavy loan built around recurring revenue - and a sharper question about when speed is actually worth paying for.
STV wants founders to keep more of what they build
The Riyadh investor built its name backing regional tech companies. Now, callable equity and a Google-backed AI fund are widening its answer to a stubborn question: how should a startup pay for growth?
The Company Loaning Cannabis the Money Banks Won't Touch
Cannabis is legal in most of the country and still can't get a bank loan. FundCanna built a lending machine inside that gap - and now the institutions that stayed away are quietly following it in.
Tacora Capital Funds the Balance Sheet Behind the App
The Austin lender looks past the software pitch and into the pile of loans, contracts and policies underneath it. That focus has helped Tacora turn a quiet corner of venture finance into a roughly $1.4 billion platform.
PvX Partners
PvX Partners is a Singapore-based fintech that provides non-dilutive user acquisition (UA) financing to mobile game studios and consumer app companies. Instead of equity or traditional debt, PvX funds a portion of a company's monthly marketing spend based on the historical performance of user cohorts, sharing downside risk if those cohorts underperform. Its financing is powered by Lambda, a proprietary machine-learning underwriting and intelligence platform, allowing profitable apps to scale user acquisition budgets without giving up ownership.
Andrew Curtis
Andrew Curtis is the CEO of Clearco, the Toronto-based fintech that fronts cash to ecommerce brands without taking their equity. A two-decade Wall Street veteran of leveraged credit and restructurings - with stops at Merrill Lynch and Lazard Freres - he arrived as an advisor in 2022, took the top job in early 2023, and steered the once-troubled company through a recapitalization and a ground-up rebuild. Under him, Clearco has deployed billions across thousands of brands, tripled funding in 2024, and relaunched a platform he pitches as 'capital that thinks like a founder.'