The relationship engine
for venture, creating impact
at every stage
To empower the founders building the future with the capital, tools, and relationships to increase their likelihood of success.
What began as one room is now a relationship engine.
Good founders draw in good investors. Good investors draw in the best founders. Once we saw that, the room itself became the product.
Topgolf capped us at two bays, so we got creative, ski days, happy hours, pitch competitions, until our first VC ReversePitch™ in Salt Lake changed everything. Investors took the stage and pitched founders directly. Founders self-selected on the spot.
Other cities asked us to bring it to them. The room grew. The belief never did.
We’re the relationship engine for venture, the rooms, the capital, and the platform behind every conversation that moves someone forward.
Built by founders & investors, not organizers
We’ve raised, built, and sold companies ourselves. This isn’t something we observed from the outside, it’s something we’ve lived.
Jeff Erickson
Jeff started Founders & Funders eight years ago with a simple belief: relationships move venture forward, not just capital. He brings the vision and strategy that built the engine from the ground up.
Adam Shaw
Adam helps scale what Jeff started into the relationship engine it is today. He brings the vision and strategy behind the rooms, the partnerships, and the platform, from New York to every city F&F calls home.
More of the people behind F&F
Inger Erickson
Inger founded and exited an Inc. 500-ranked company and is an active angel investor. Her marketing and lead-gen expertise has been central to scaling F&F nationally.
Patty Hernando
Patty keeps the relationship engine running behind the scenes. She coordinates the team, the events, and the partner relationships, making sure every detail comes together and every connection keeps going long after the room clears.
The rooms, city by city
One idea, carried into every room it’s built since.
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