FoW Partners, LP (the “Adviser”) is a Delaware limited partnership that provides
investment advisory services to privately offered investment funds (collectively with any future
funds advised by the Adviser, the “Funds”). The Adviser commenced operations in November
2023. VBD Holdings, LLC is the general partner of the Adviser, which is principally owned by
Warren Valdmanis, Ian Blasco and Edward Demetriou.
The Adviser invests in companies that prioritize human capital (e.g., workforce)
innovation. The Adviser seeks to combine active, principled ownership with the application of
data science to attain positive social and investment outcomes through investment in portfolio
companies’ workforces.
The Adviser’s advisory clients consist of the Funds. Further information regarding the
investment strategy and terms of such funds are detailed in their respective offering documents.
The Funds seek to generate long-term capital appreciation primarily through acquiring
interests in businesses primarily organized and/or headquartered in the United States and Canada
that seek, or could be caused to seek, to create “Good Jobs” within select sub-sectors of the
consumer, healthcare, business services and education and training sectors, and making follow-on
investments with respect thereto. The Adviser views “Good Jobs” on a proprietary multi-factor
basis that takes into account fairness, growth, purpose, leadership and associated factors. The
strategies the Funds pursue are long-term and discretionary in nature. A Fund generally seeks to
achieve returns commensurate with a corresponding level of investment and liquidity risk. As
manager of the Funds, the Adviser identifies and evaluates investment opportunities, negotiates
the terms of investments, manages and monitors investments and seeks to achieve dispositions for
such investments. Although investments are made predominantly in non-public companies,
investments in public companies are permitted in limited circumstances.
A Fund seeks to acquire established businesses in growing industries that the Adviser
expects to thrive as technology evolves, and where the Adviser sees potential for “Workforce
Impact” by (i) seeking to make a series of workforce-focused strategic, operational and investment
decisions that are intended to directly improve job quality among its portfolio companies; (ii)
seeking to indirectly increase workforce job quality by targeting a portfolio that includes, in part,
certain businesses that promote education and training within the workforce; and (iii) broadly
sharing its learnings as a strategy to increase job quality throughout the workforce. The Adviser
will further seek to leverage its data science capabilities in order to measure job quality, unlock
human potential, improve job quality in the workforce and improve financial performance.
Some of a Fund’s investments may focus on enabling businesses that seek to act as catalysts
to transform disrupted workers into competitors for tomorrow’s jobs, particularly “middle skills”
jobs (e.g., jobs that may require specialized training but not a college degree), while others may
be emerging business models with the potential to be enabled by technology and to create Good
Jobs, including jobs of all skill levels. From time to time, where such investments consist of
portfolio companies, the senior principals or other personnel of the Adviser or its affiliates
generally serve on such
portfolio companies’ respective boards of directors or otherwise act to
influence control over management of portfolio companies in which a Fund has invested.
Investors in a Fund (generally referred to herein as “investors” or “limited partners”)
participate in the overall investment program for such fund, but in certain circumstances may be
excused from a particular investment due to legal, regulatory or other agreed-upon circumstances
pursuant to the relevant Fund Agreement (as defined below). Such arrangements generally do not
and will not create an adviser-client relationship between the Adviser and any investor. A Fund or
the applicable general partner entity generally enters into side letters or other similar agreements
(“Side Letters”) with certain investors that have the effect of establishing rights (including
economic or other terms) under, or altering or supplementing the terms of, the relevant Fund
Agreement with respect to such investors. Other than those restrictions set forth in the applicable
Fund Agreement, investors generally may not impose restrictions on investing in certain securities
or certain types of securities.
The Adviser from time to time and as permitted and required by the pertinent Fund
Agreement, expects to provide (or agree to provide), co-investment opportunities (including the
opportunity to participate in co-invest vehicles and fund-of-one vehicles) to certain current or
prospective investors or other persons, including other sponsors, market participants, finders,
consultants and other service providers, the Adviser’s personnel (or their estate planning or other
similar vehicles) and/or certain other persons associated with the Adviser and/or its affiliates (e.g.,
a vehicle formed by the Adviser’s principals to co-invest alongside a Fund). For strategic and other
reasons, a co-investor or co-invest vehicle (including a co-investing fund) has, and from time to
time will, purchase a portion of an investment after the relevant Fund has consummated its
investment in the applicable portfolio company (also known as a post-closing sell-down or
transfer), which generally will have been funded through Fund investor capital contributions
and/or use of a Fund credit facility. Any such purchase from a Fund by a co-investor or co-invest
vehicle generally occurs shortly after the Fund’s completion of the investment to avoid any
changes in valuation of the investment, but in certain instances could be well after the Fund’s
initial purchase. In such cases, where appropriate in the Adviser’s sole discretion, the Adviser
reserves the right to charge interest on the purchase to the co-investor or co-invest vehicle or
otherwise equitably to adjust the purchase price under certain conditions, and to seek
reimbursement to the relevant Fund for related costs. However, to the extent such amounts are not
so charged or reimbursed, they generally will be borne by the relevant Fund.
The Adviser’s advisory services to a Fund are detailed, as applicable, in the applicable
private placement memoranda or other offering documents (each, a “Memorandum”), investment
management agreements, limited liability company or other operating agreements or governing
documents (each, a “Fund Agreement”) and are further described below under “Methods of
Analysis, Investment Strategies and Risk of Loss.”
As of April 10, 2024, the Adviser has $611,986,075 regulatory assets under management.