Advisory for the association & event economy
Capital and exit solutions for founders
raising and selling.
501c Capital advises founders across the association, event-technology, and small-business markets on raising capital and selling their companies — and may invest its own seed and angel capital alongside the founders it backs.
Operator-level counsel between raises and transactions — growth strategy, enterprise-value planning, and board-level guidance for association and event-technology companies building toward a milestone.
Strategic Advisory
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Sell-Side M&A & Exit Advisory
Preparing a company for sale and running a disciplined process. Readiness, positioning, buyer identification, and negotiation support from first conversation through close.
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Capital Raise Advisory
Positioning, materials, and investor access for founders raising their next round. We shape the narrative and financial framing, then open doors across an active investor network.
Focused engagements at the moments that decide enterprise value.
What we do
We invest our own capital alongside the founders we believe in — selective seed and angel checks for early-stage companies in the association, event-technology, and SMB markets, often paired with hands-on advisory.
Seed & Angel Capital
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The practice
Built by operators, for operators.
501c Capital is a team of founders and operators who have built, scaled, and sold companies across association technology, event software, and the broader small-business economy — with exits, capital raises, and enterprise software agreements behind them.
We work with a select group of founders in the association, event-technology, and SMB markets — many of them people we have known in this industry for years — helping them raise capital and prepare their companies for sale. The perspective we bring is one earned from the founder's chair, on both sides of the table.