25Fifteen
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25Fifteen is a leading startup studio and venture development firm that explores, validates, and builds innovative digital products and ventures in partnership with entrepreneurial founders and large corporate enterprises. Founded in 2013 by successful tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans, 25Fifteen leverages over 25 years of execution experience to incubate and accelerate startups, invest and raise capital, and build businesses of value. The firm operates through three core service lines: Startup Studio (co-founding businesses with entrepreneurs, providing seed capital, resources, team members, and ongoing support from inception to exit), Enterprise Co-Ventures (helping large enterprises establish co-ventures for exploration of speculative and emerging markets and new technologies), and Capital Investment (buying minority and majority stakes in small, profitable businesses). Unlike traditional accelerators or VCs, 25Fifteen gets deeply immersed in every project, starting allocation of resources as early as possible, often before the product is even defined. Most businesses they work on start as internal projects, though they occasionally co-found projects with external founders who share their philosophy for building businesses of value. The firm is focused on creating companies of value and realizing that value through exits, as they fund the first stage of projects internally then raise external capital as companies grow. The name 25Fifteen comes from the founding team's track record: between the six original founders, they had started 25 businesses and successfully exited 15.
2013
6 Companies
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