Kim T. Folsom is a serial tech entrepreneur who founded seven companies with three exits and two IPOs before becoming a venture capital investor, bringing her repeat founder experience to emphasize cash-flow discipline and recurring revenue over growth at all costs. She operates both Founders First Capital Partners and a nonprofit growth accelerator, positioning herself as a revenue-based, non-dilutive first capital partner who focuses on capital activation programs that help underinvested entrepreneurs secure larger contracts and build bankability rather than traditional equity investing.
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Founders First Capital Partners is the largest minority- and woman-owned small-business lender in the U.S., founded by a 7-time tech entrepreneur who built six companies to successful exits and created the fund to solve capital-access challenges she faced as a Black woman founder. The fund combines non-dilutive revenue-based financing with structured accelerator programs specifically for BIPOC, women, veteran and LGBTQ+ owners of B2B/B2G service businesses in underinvested geographies outside major VC hubs.
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