Golub Growth Named to Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List

San Francisco, CA, October 29, 2024 – Golub Growth has been named to Inc.’s sixth annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, which honors those private equity, venture capital firms and lenders with a track record of backing founder-led companies.  

Golub Growth is an affiliate of Golub Capital, a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager. Golub Growth provides custom debt and equity capital solutions designed to help venture-backed SaaS businesses accelerate sales growth, drive new product development, pursue strategic acquisitions and provide shareholder liquidity. 

“Thank you to Inc. for recognizing Golub Growth as a founder-friendly firm and thank you to our partners for your continued support,” said Peter Fair, Managing Director at Golub Growth. “We pride ourselves on having a collaborative approach and finding the best solution for our clients’ unique situations.”    

This 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 remain actively involved with the businesses they invest in. 

“It has been a complicated few years for growth companies and the companies that fund them,” said Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. “So we are happy to share with our readers the best, latest guidance on which venture capital firms, private equity firms, and growth-capital lenders have the track record and reputation of being especially good partners to founders and CEOs.” 

Introduced in 2019, the Founder-Friendly Investors list quickly established itself as one of Inc.’s most resourceful franchises. It has become a go-to guide for entrepreneurs who want to grow their companies while retaining an ownership stake. 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 portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships. 

About Golub Growth 

Golub Growth provides flexible debt and equity capital to venture-backed, growth-stage B2B SaaS companies. Our custom solutions are designed to help SaaS businesses accelerate sales growth, drive new product development, pursue strategic acquisitions and provide shareholder liquidity. Since 2013, we have partnered with CEOs, founders and CFOs at more than 110 software companies and committed over $12 billion to enable long-term growth. 

Golub Growth is an affiliate of Golub Capital, a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager. As of July 1, 2024, Golub Capital had over $70 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit golubgrowth.com. 

About Inc. 

Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of our community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating our future. Inc.'s award-winning work achieves a monthly brand footprint of more than 40 million across a variety of channels, including events, digital, print, video, podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Its proprietary Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since its launch as the Inc. 100 in 1982, analyzes company data to rank the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The recognition that comes with inclusion on this and other prestigious Inc. lists, such as Female Founders and Power Partners, gives the founders of top businesses the opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.