DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Founders Equity Partners
Founders Equity Partners
Private equity with venture activity · probableJackson, WYfepfund.comSEC registered investment adviser
registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 6 private funds
Importance
20
moderate
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
56
elevated
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
4
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Jackson, WYadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 160 WEST DELONEY AVE., Jackson, WY, 83001adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 307-249-6998adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTPS://FEPFUND.COM
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 30, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 6 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $309Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $309Mthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 3
- business phone
- 307-249-6998adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors: no observed deals yet
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
4 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founders Equity Partners Tactical Opportunities, LP - Series Dragos II | Opportunity fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | 2022 adv first reported | Active deployment | $10.2M Mar 28, 2024 | 14 | unknown | unknown |
| Founders Equity Partners Tactical Opportunities LP - Series Dragos | Opportunity fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | 2019 adv first reported | Mature | $27.4M Mar 28, 2024 | 9 | unknown | unknown |
| Founders Equity Partners I, L.P. | Fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | 2015 form d first sale | Harvest | $133M Mar 28, 2024 | 11 | $55.0M | Nov 7, 2016 |
| Founders Equity Partners Special Opportunities I, L.P. | Opportunity fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | unknown | Unknown | $43.2M Mar 28, 2024 | 2 | $0 | Sep 4, 2015 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
3 current, 1 departed
Robert R. Ackerman
PartnerManaging Director · since Aug 1, 2015
Robert Richard Ackerman
PartnerMember · since Aug 1, 2015
Matthew Patrick Moran
Platform and operationsCfo/Cco · since Dec 1, 2023
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- Steven Simonian · Cfo/Cco · Dec 1, 2021 to Mar 11, 2024 Inference
Investments on record
0 edges, 0 companies, 0 partner-attributed
No investment on record yet. Edges arrive from the firm’s portfolio page, financing announcements, and Form D board seats.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
1 disclosed
Timeline
10 dated events
- Mar 11, 2024Steven Joseph Simonian (Cfo/Cco) no longer on Schedule A of Founders Equity Partners
- Dec 1, 2023Matthew Patrick Moran joined Schedule A of Founders Equity Partners as Cfo/Cco
- Mar 30, 2022Founders Equity Partners Tactical Opportunities, LP - Series Dragos II first reported on Form ADV by Founders Equity Partners (Private Equity Fund), GAV $10,280,994
- Dec 1, 2021Steven Joseph Simonian joined Schedule A of Founders Equity Partners as Cfo/Cco
- Mar 28, 2019Founders Equity Partners Tactical Opportunities LP - Series Dragos first reported on Form ADV by Founders Equity Partners (Private Equity Fund), GAV $4,639,464
- Nov 7, 2015Founders Equity Partners Special Opportunities I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Founders Equity Partners (Private Equity Fund), GAV $25,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactFounders Equity Partners Special Opportunities I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Nov 7, 2015Founders Equity Partners I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Founders Equity Partners (Private Equity Fund), GAV $49,540,032Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactFounders Equity Partners I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Nov 7, 2015Founders Equity Partners first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Aug 1, 2015Robert R. Ackerman joined Schedule A of Founders Equity Partners as Managing Director
- Mar 1, 2007NYSCRF reports Founders Equity: $18,000,000 committed, vintage None
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 6 private funds
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 4 private funds
Evidence
45 observations from 3 sources