The active merchant banking practice at Founders Equity serves U.S. corporations, corporate owners and successful entrepreneurs. Founders prefers to make a direct investment in client companies enabling us to share in the success of our clients. This active participation places us in a principal position and reduces our reliance on generating fees from a transaction. We believe this structure reduces conflicts and aligns the interest of all parties involved. The principals of Founders Equity Group, Inc. are Thomas J. Spackman and Scotty D. Cook who have a combined 20 years experience in investing in and advising smaller capitalization public companies.
Founders delivers high quality professional advice with an emphasis on personal service.
Because of the personal attention we give to our client partners, we handle a limited number of transactions. Typically, Founders Equity Group will handle about 10 merchant banking transactions per year. Our successful merchant banking business reflects our unique ability to raise capital, to find promising companies in which to invest, and to help them flourish by providing flexible financing, management support and expertise from our existing client base. Generally speaking, the most appealing companies are those where the top managers have a proven track record of creating value through capital appreciation. Said another way, it's not enough to simply have a great idea or concept.