Fortitude Advisors

Our entire team at Fortitude Advisors is excited, once again, to present our annual Tech Founders Forum, this Thursday, October 30th! We have confirmed over 70 founders and leaders from the Austin tech and business community, and look forward to hosting Jim Ballard, Jonathan Currie, Steven Dapper, John (Jay) Gibson II, Ross Johnson DCIE DCES, Lyle Green, Han Park, Jeff Pepper, Clayton Reid and Davyeon Ross from the Fortitude advisory board. This year, we will feature the music of the legendary Graham Wilkinson, who has opened for countless Texas and national acts. We are near capacity for this event, so please DM if you have an interest in joining us.

Fortitude Advisors hosted another exceptional event last week! Our London Tech Founders Mixer brought together a diverse group of founders of leading software and technology businesses for an engaging strategic roundtable discussion followed by a lively mixer at the renowned Quaglino's in central London. Special thanks to our co-sponsors, Sam Gray and Kristian Shearsby at Stephenson Harwood LLP and to Christopher Lee at Populous, as well as all of the founders who joined us and contributed to the discussion.

Fortitude Advisors is proud to announce our role as exclusive financial advisor to Eden Data, a rapidly growing and highly profitable founder-owned provider of recurring governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and cybersecurity services, on its acquisition by Riveron, a portfolio company of Kohlberg and Blackstone. The entire team at Fortitude is honored to have served as advisor to Taylor Hersom and the exceptionally talented team at Eden Data on their milestone partnership with Riveron. The combination of these two highly respected firms creates a powerhouse positioned to meet the surging global demand for end-to-end risk, compliance, and cybersecurity advisory solutions across industries.    Fortitude Advisors is a leading technology investment bank that is uniquely dedicated to advising high-performing, founder-owned businesses – ensuring a true alignment of interests and optimal execution. Since 1997, our principals have closed over $50 billion in M&A and financing transactions for software and technology-enabled businesses across the U.S., and internationally.

Fortitude Advisors is once again proud to be a sponsor of Party for the Parks, raising money for the good work done by Austin Parks Foundation. Our entire team is looking forward to enjoying a "private ACL" experience featuring the music of Passion Pit at Austin's own Zilker Park!

Fresh off the closing of a transaction (soon to be announced), Fortitude Advisors hosted our Founder's Social at the Driftwood Club last night. We enjoyed excellent conversation, drinks and live music from The Fultone's with over 50 founders and executives from the Austin technology and business community. Special thanks to our co-sponsors, John Menchaca, Aaron Barker and the team at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP and Jonathan Levy, Erik Cohen and team at Outrunner Capital. And, a shout out to Fortitude's own Andrew Manca and Jamie Thorvilson Wolfe from EY who won the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area long drive competition, with drives of 297 yards and 120 yards, respectively. Fortitude is proud to donate $10,000 to the club on their behalf!

Fortitude Advisors is proud to co-sponsor the Austin Gamblers Texas Tee Haw at Butler Pitch & Putt. We are happy to work with J J Gottsch and his team alongside Tecovas, YETI and great group of sponsors in support of central Texas flood relief efforts.

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Thanks to the presenters of SaaStock for hosting SaaStock in Austin this year! Fortitude Advisors looks forward to hosting an exclusive group of bootstrapped SaaS founders at our post-conference mixer downtown today.

Fortitude Advisors is proud to be a sponsor of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area Spring luncheon tomorrow

Thanks to everyone from the Austin tech community who attended Fortitude Advisors annual Tech Spring Social at The Driftwood! Following an exclusive roundtable discussion, we hosted over 60 software and tech founders and other senior professionals with food, drinks, live music and even a golf pro onsite for our $10,000 long drive competition to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area. Looking forward to next year!!