Founder security and resilience

Nobody should have to choose between starting a company and protecting their family.

Two funds. One for while you are building. One for if it ends.

While you are building

Founder Security

Affordable health coverage for founders and portfolio employees, benefits navigation, and wellbeing resources. It exists to remove the single most common reason a good operator never leaves their job.

If the company ends

Founder Resilience Fund

Coverage does not stop the day the company does. Neither does the relationship. The fund carries a founder through the months between one thing ending and the next one starting.

Why this exists

This is economics, not sentiment.

Health coverage tied to a job is a measurable brake on how many people ever start a company.

49%

of entrepreneurs surveyed reported a lifetime mental health condition, against 32 percent of a comparison group. Counting family history, 72 percent were affected.

65

Business ownership jumps in the month a person turns 65 and Medicare begins. Economists call the effect entrepreneurship lock.

0.76%

fall in entry into self-employment for every one percent rise in benchmark exchange premiums.

2/3

of net new jobs come from firms one to five years old. The people who start them are the ones this protects.

Freeman et al., Small Business Economics, 2019, n=242 entrepreneurs and 93 comparisons. Fairlie, Kapur and Gates, RAND and Kauffman Foundation. Fossen et al., Small Business Economics, 2025. Stangler and Litan, Kauffman Foundation. United States figures.

Founder Security

Coverage, while you build.

Available to founders in the portfolio and to the people they hire.

Affordable health coverageGroup access for founders and portfolio employees
Benefits navigationSomeone who knows the system, so you do not spend a week on it
Wellbeing resourcesMental health access as a standard benefit, not a crisis response
Retention supportHelps a small company keep the people it fought to hire

The Resilience Fund

The company can fail. We keep the founder.

Most companies will not work. That is arithmetic, not a judgment. What Georgia cannot afford is to lose the person along with the company.

Healthcare bridgeCoverage continues while you work out what is next
Immediately
Transition supportA wind-down that does not take your savings with it
Weeks
Coaching and counselingSomeone to talk to who has been through the same thing
Months
Next role connectionsIntroductions into the network you already helped build
Months
Next company supportFirst call on the next idea, if there is one
When ready

Eligibility, amounts and duration are set in program terms and are not open-ended. The fund is funded from a share of returns and from philanthropic partners.

When founders fail, we keep the human capital.

A founder who is caught once usually builds again, and usually builds better. A founder who is not usually leaves the state and takes ten years of learning with them. That is the entire calculation.