The annual list highlights the private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders with track records of backing founder-led companies
Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, October 28, 2025 – Strattam Capital is proud to announce its recognition on the Inc. Founder-Friendly Investors list, honoring the private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders with a track record of backing founder-led companies. This year’s list recognizes Strattam Capital among 248 firms.
The prestigious list celebrates the investors that believe in backing founder-led businesses and helping them thrive. All companies on the list have successful track records of collaboration and remaining actively involved with the businesses they invest in.
“Raising capital is no small feat for today’s entrepreneurs. That’s why discovering investors who offer more than just financial backing—those who bring mentorship, resources, and a true spirit of partnership to your growth journey—is both rare and invaluable,” says Bonny Ghosh, Editorial Director at Inc. “The 2025 Founder-Friendly Investors are collaborators and dedicated to helping their portfolio companies succeed.”
To compile the list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their companies have grown during these partnerships.
For more information or to view the complete list of honorees, visit www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors.
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About Strattam Capital
Strattam Capital is a private equity firm with over $1 billion in assets under management, investing in founder-led, B2B software and technology companies that are poised to become vertical market leaders.
Strattam’s values of transparency, continuous improvement, and carrying forward the ownership mindset of founders led to the creation of The Five-Point Plan, an investment process that emphasizes aligning with founders before signing. The firm supports portfolio company leaders in building their teams, extending their reach, and adopting new technologies—today, AI—to solve the customer problems they understand so well.
Founded in 2014, Strattam is based in Austin and San Francisco. Since inception, the firm has completed more than 50 partnerships with founder-led businesses.
A fee was paid to submit Strattam Capital’s application. For more information, see Strattam‘s Awards Disclosure.