Forster Chase Ventures

Forster Chase Ventures is a highly differentiated, market-leading ventures business that partners with founders to grow highly profitable & valuable businesses. Our main differentiator is the deployment of experienced CEOs as lead consultants.

As part of the wider Forster Chase Group (including executive search and all M&A solutions), we will provide a long-term partnership, including as shareholders, to clients throughout their life cycle.

Our Ventures business is enhanced by the other businesses within the Forster Chase group – Forster Chase Executive Search, Forster Chase Corporate Finance, and Forster Chase Interim. We are an agile, entrepreneurial, creative, and results-focussed group of businesses that is backed and led by genuine industry leaders. Through our Search and Corporate Finance divisions, we can provide access to the best people in the market, to sources of capital, to other companies for partnerships and/or distribution plus a whole host more besides.

We have been through the start-up and high-growth phase ourselves and taken many clients through it and have therefore developed an exclusive club approach with this in mind whereby we work with a select number of early-stage ventures and provide the ongoing advisory service as a collective while giving access to capital and people. This helps keep the costs down to a minimum. We have also come to agreement with many companies to work with an equity reward instead of, or in lieu of, cash. This ensures we are continually invested in the business from early stage to sale under one group.

OUR ETHOS

From our own experience, we believe that success in business requires three things: the right strategy, capital, and talent. As such we have put together an all-encompassing one-stop shop where businesses can be nurtured and fostered towards full maturity.
The type of businesses we would be keen to work with are similar to ours – agile, entrepreneurial, and with a management team that is open to strategic advice from experienced industry C-level executives and non-executives.
We also tend to work with capital-intensive businesses within the Financial Services and Tech industries, particularly Insuretech, Fintech, Medtech, and SAAS.