When a Founder does not fit your box or your round, that does not have to be the end of the conversation. Yorktown provides non-dilutive, structured capital advances to revenue-stage Founders. You stay their trusted advisor. They come back to you stronger.
Become a partnerEvery investor, advisor, lender, and program eventually meets a Founder they believe in but cannot fully serve. The fund is not ready to lead another round. The bank cannot underwrite a software company with recurring revenue and few hard assets. The cohort has ended and the Founder needs runway to keep the momentum going. Saying no, or saying nothing, is expensive, because the relationship often walks out the door with the answer.
Yorktown exists for exactly that moment. We provide Founder-first capital that is repaid through a company's own revenue, not a term sheet. No equity, no warrants, no board seats. Your Founder gets what they need and stays in your ecosystem.
A portfolio company that needs a bridge does not always need another equity round, and a down or dilutive round is a hard thing to hand a Founder in your portfolio. Yorktown provides non-dilutive capital that can extend runway or fund growth between rounds without touching the cap table. We fund, you invest. Different tools, same goal, which is a Founder who reaches the next milestone from a position of strength.
You built trust with a client by being straight with them. That trust is worth protecting even when your product is not the right fit. Yorktown gives you a place to send revenue-stage software, subscription, and e-commerce Founders who fall outside a traditional credit box. We complement what you already offer rather than compete for it. Your client gets the capital they need, stays your client, and remembers who pointed them in the right direction.
Your cohort companies leave the program with momentum, a little capital, and usually a little less equity than they started with. The Founders who are ready to keep scaling often are not ready for another priced round, and giving up more of the cap table so soon after the program is a hard ask. Yorktown gives the companies you support a way to fund the next stage of growth without selling more of the company they just fought to build equity in. You get to keep supporting your portfolio past demo day, and your outcomes reflect it. Send us the Founders who have started generating real recurring revenue and are ready to grow on their own terms.
We keep it simple. You introduce a Founder who fits; we take the conversation from there with the same care you would, and you stay in the loop. There is no cost to refer and no exclusivity asked of you. Yorktown works with revenue-stage Founders who have predictable recurring revenue, typically starting around $500K in ARR, with advances that generally range from $50K to $1M.
Yorktown was built by people who worked inside tech companies, not on Wall Street. We know what it is to need capital and not fit the standard options, and we treat the Founders you send us accordingly.
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