We make 100% of founders financially better off
Our goal is to end founder suffering. We reject the notion that founders need to be poor before they can be rich.
Invest
Sell your future liquidity for exposure to Grove Network companies, with no downside
Build
Leverage the Grove Network to find new customers, recruit talent, and raise capital
Earn
When other founders in Grove have liquidity events, you get a distribution
The How
Grove makes 100% of founders better off
Grove invests in founders
Grove buys 2 – 3% of a founder’s future exit liquidity. We buy it based on what it would be worth should the founder become fully liquid today based on their latest valuation.
Founders gain exposure to the Grove Network
Grove doesn’t invest with cash. Rather, when the founder gives up a few cents-on-the-dollar of their exit, what they get in return is a percentage ownership of the Grove Network: dozens (and soon hundreds!) of other venture-backed startups.
Selection & Sieving ensure quality
We have strict entrance criteria, but the real magic is from our Sieving mechanism. Like a treasure hunter in the gold rush sieving for gold, Grove removes failed and zombie companies, leaving the best, high-quality founders to share their liquidity with others.
The Why
Grove ends founder suffering
Grove increases the expected value of a founder’s cap table wealth 100% of the time.
It’s math. Because founders are over-concentrated in one risky asset, diversifying even a small percentage of your exit means greater diversification. This means founders in Grove move away from founder expected returns (where the 80th percentile founder goes to zero) and toward the expected returns of top VCs.
As long as you’re building & growing, you’ll be allowed to stay in the network
This means you’ll collect quarterly cashflow, as other founders in the network have liquidity events. Even if you end up failing & leaving the network, some cash flow is better than no cash flow.
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Earlier liquidity & greater diversification = more founders & more innovation
The world needs more founders to solve modern problems. Grove accelerates the pace of cash flow to founders, providing quarterly income & letting founders afford to remain founders until they succeed – and not sell out to a corporate job.
The bottom line
Grove is engineered to have the economics of a Venture Capital fund with a 70% hit rate. Members who fail will eventually be exited from the network, but receive cash flow & benefit from the financially aligned community while they were building. For members in the network, we expect them to earn roughly $70,000 per year. See our whitepaper for a look under the hood & into our model.
White Paper
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Our Network
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