Happy Super Bowl Sunday, folks! You can imagine that we’re prepping for the Super Bowl win this afternoon here at the home office in Kansas City. We’re looking forward to a Kansas City win, and to the passing of the torch to a new generation of talent. It reminds me of the present situation in the early stage financing markets. Entrepreneurs still look for VC money first because that’s what they’ve been taught, it’s what they’re used to. That’s changing. The number of fintech, challenger/neo banks, RBF, RBI, Flexible VC upstarts continues to increase, and entrepreneur attention is starting to shift too. Entrepreneurs are looking for the new way, the better way. This community offers many of the options that entrepreneurs need and want. 

We are, if you will pardon the analogy, the Patrick Mahomes to the traditional VC world’s Tom Brady. Sure, they’re married to a supermodel and they’ve won more Super Bowls than we care to count, but they’re...well...old. Played. Ripe for a change, for a disruption. 

And that disruption is you. The investors blazing a new trail, finding ways to throw sidearm and shovel passes that defy traditional approaches, keeping the ball moving down the field, and putting points on the board in a way no one anticipated. We can do what the VCs can’t. Keep doing it, folks. Keep funding the companies you know can be successful in their own way. Keep redefining the meaning of success. Keep building new ways to fund the entrepreneurs changing their industries. Just keep doing it.

Go Chiefs.
Keith