Co-Founder & CEO, Founders & Funders · General Partner, F&F Ventures
Adam Shaw is a multi-time founder who has built and scaled companies across four countries. He co-founded Founders & Funders and leads the vision, strategy, and partnerships behind the relationship engine for venture: Events, Media, Connect, and Ventures.
Built from zero, more than once.
Adam has spent his career on the operating side of hard businesses: supply chain, consumer goods, and international trade. Every venture started the same way, with no brand, no capital, and a phone.
Built a medical supply company from the ground up while still an undergraduate in BYU’s global supply chain program. Sourced factory relationships in China directly, then went after federal procurement contracts. The company exited to a larger East Coast medical distribution group.
Founded and ran a seven-figure consumer brand across direct-to-consumer and retail channels, learning the unit economics, inventory pressure, and channel tradeoffs that most e-commerce founders hit at scale.
Ran teams and offices across four countries over five years of building. Fluent in Mandarin, and trained in global supply chain, which shapes how he underwrites physical product companies today.
Restructured procurement for a group of major REITs and helped build a large multi-family group purchasing organization. Has also helped scale businesses that went public and others valued in the billions.
For a long time the scoreboard was a valuation. It is not the scoreboard anymore. I measure it now in the founders who make it, the rooms that change someone’s trajectory, and whether I am a good husband, father, and leader while it happens.
That is structural, not sentimental. F&F Ventures commits 2% of the fund and 2% of carried interest, both GP and LP, toward economic growth and impact opportunities. Mentors like Eddie Wilson and the work of Impact Others shaped how we built that in.
I also know how easy it is to lose the thing that made a company work in the first place when you scale fast. Growing without breaking it is the discipline I bring to every room and every check.
Venture is not just Silicon Valley money and billion-dollar outcomes. The job is to give founders the tools, the capital, and the relationships that raise their odds of success. Adam is building F&F into the infrastructure that makes that real.
Setting the direction for F&F Events, Media, Connect, and Ventures as one engine.
One room turned into 12+ cities, a national partner and VC network, and a fund.
F&F Ventures backs consumer goods and e-commerce founders with capital, purchase order financing, and operator support.
One idea, one conversation, one person can change the trajectory of your journey.
Adam Shaw
In the rooms, and on the record.
Adam hosts and moderates F&F rooms across the country, from the VC ReversePitch format to e-commerce brunches, VC dinners, and private founder gatherings.
He speaks and writes on consumer and e-commerce investing, venture liquidity and fund structure, supply chain, and what it actually takes to scale a company without breaking it. He also mentors students and early founders, and F&F puts them in the same rooms as its VC partners on purpose.
If you are scaling and want a founder and operator in your corner, we want to meet you.