FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced its inclusion for the fifth consecutive year on Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, which honors the private equity firms, venture capital firms and lenders with established track records of backing founder-led companies. This year’s list recognizes 248 firms that have demonstrated a deep commitment to partnering with founder-led businesses with sustained, hands-on engagement and collaboration to drive growth.

“For nearly three decades, FTV’s success has been rooted in an unwavering commitment to building collaborative, long-term partnerships with founders and management teams to accelerate growth,” said Brad Bernstein, managing partner at FTV Capital. “This recognition reflects our distinctive approach to growth equity – combining flexible capital with deep domain expertise, operational guidance and a powerful network – that truly helps our portfolio companies scale and creates enduring value for all our stakeholders. In a year marked by significant liquidity, investing momentum and growth across our portfolio, we’re especially proud of the trust we’ve earned from the exceptional entrepreneurs we support.”

This announcement comes during a momentous year for FTV. In January, the firm announced a record $4.05 billion fundraise spanning two complementary funds, including a new vehicle dedicated to smaller investments, with flexibility to make control and minority investments. Since the start of year, FTV has generated record portfolio liquidity, realizing $1.1 billion from exits or partial exits including A-LIGN, Enfusion and ReliaQuest. Furthermore, the firm has deployed over $1.7 billion across 11 new investments. Earlier this year, FTV was recognized among the top 20 growth equity firms globally in the HEC Paris Dow Jones Growth Capital Performance Ranking, validating the firm’s differentiated growth equity model and partnerships with leading entrepreneurs worldwide.

“From the very beginning, FTV has been a true partner – providing the support we needed to scale while giving us the freedom to run our business our way,” said Brian Murphy, founder and CEO of ReliaQuest. “At ReliaQuest we always say that ‘security is a team sport.’ I’ve always considered FTV to be a part of that team. We’ve learned a lot from each other over the years, and it’s always made us better.”

FTV delivers value to its portfolio companies beyond its investment mandate. The firm’s expansive Global Partner Network^®, which comprises over 600 executives from many of the world’s leading enterprises, provides critical market intelligence and commercial opportunities to FTV portfolio companies. In 2024 alone, FTV facilitated over 475 commercial, strategic and operational introductions. Additionally, FTV Propel^®, the firm’s dedicated team of operational experts spanning talent, business development, sales, marketing, technology, finance and legal, focuses solely on delivering strategic value and operational guidance to help portfolio companies catalyze growth.

To compile the list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital and debt firms and shared data on how their portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships.

Introduced in 2019, the Founder-Friendly Investors list quickly established itself as one of Inc.’s most resourceful franchises. It has become a go-to guide for entrepreneurs who want to grow their companies while retaining an ownership stake.

To see the complete list, go to: https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors

About FTV Capital

FTV Capital is a sector-focused growth equity investment firm that has raised more than $10.2 billion to invest in innovative, high-growth companies across financial technology and services, vertical software, enterprise technology and services, and healthcare technology and services. Founded in 1998, FTV has developed a highly differentiated and disciplined growth equity model, which leverages the firm’s deep domain expertise and thematic investing approach to help portfolio companies accelerate growth. FTV also provides companies with access to its Global Partner Network^®, a strategic group of more than 600 executives from many of the world’s leading financial services firms and FTV Propel^®, an in-house team of seasoned operational leaders who deliver counsel and resources across a range of critical business functions. FTV has invested in over 150 portfolio companies, including Agiloft, Docupace, EBANX, Lean Solutions Group, LoanPro, Neptune Flood Insurance, ReliaQuest and Vagaro, and successfully exited/partially exited Centaur (acquired by Waystone Group), Egress (acquired by KnowBe4), Enfusion (acquired by Clearwater Analytics), RapidRatings (recapitalized), VPay (acquired by Optum) and WorldFirst (acquired by Ant Financial). For more information, please visit www.ftvcapital.com and follow the firm on LinkedIn.

About Inc.

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Disclosures

The portfolio companies identified and described herein do not represent all of the portfolio companies purchased, sold or recommended for funds advised by FTV Capital. The reader should not assume that an investment in the portfolio companies identified was or will be profitable. For a list of all of our portfolio companies, please visit our website. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Like all entrants, FTV Capital paid a fee to be considered for this award. This award is not to be construed as indicative of FTV Capital’s future performance. Reference to an award is only one piece of information relevant to an evaluation of an investment adviser such as FTV Capital. Finally, this award represents information as of a specific date and time and may not reflect important information related to an evaluation of the investment adviser, which has occurred prior to, or subsequent to, the award. Statements by Brian Murphy are endorsements made by executives of current and former portfolio companies in which certain FTV Capital funds have invested. This press release is not a solicitation of an offer to purchase securities and may not be relied upon in connection with the purchase or sale of any security. Interests in funds managed by FTV Capital, if offered, will only be made pursuant to a confidential offering memorandum and subscription documents.

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