We could not be more excited to announce that Pam Walser has joined the investment team at Flare Capital as our Controller, a critical role as the depth and complexity of our portfolios increase. In addition to an impressive academic career at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management (Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting & Information Systems), she spent more than eight years at KPMG at the start of her career, ultimately being promoted to an Audit Senior Manager. While at KPMG, Pam was identified as a “Rising Star” and was asked to serve as a national instructor, traveling across the country training new KPMG recruits. Most recently, Pam spent four years as a Finance Manager at Summit Partners, one of the pre-eminent investment firms in the country.

Importantly, Pam will drive initiatives to deepen our portfolio company analytics and reporting. Given that nearly three dozen strategic Limited Partners account for a substantial portion of the capital we manage, there are numerous commercial opportunities for our several dozen portfolio companies to engage with those investors. We are also fortunate to have numerous traditional financial Limited Partners (family offices, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, etc), which are active co-investors in many of our portfolio companies. This “Strategic Engagement Model” generated nearly $1 billion of revenue for our portfolio companies and approximately $275 million of co-investments. Securing early revenues is essential as our entrepreneurs search for product / market fit.

As a lifelong Bostonian, we were also struck that Pam purchased a house in Foxboro sight unseen but is not a rabid New England Patriots fan. She has run a few marathons but not the Boston Marathon (yet).

Please join us in welcoming Pam Walser to the Flare Capital team…

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Quick update on our Flare Scholars program and Flare Scholar Ventures (FSV), two of our more successful initiatives. Since inception, we now have 466 current or former Flare Scholars, who are passionate young professionals from many of our strategic Limited Partners and leading academic centers around the country. At the end of 2019, we announced the formation of FSV, whereby we support Flare Scholar-sponsored “pre-seed” opportunities. To date, there are 34 investments in the program

As we look to recruit the Flare Scholar Class of 2026, we could not be more impressed with the quality of all our Flare Scholars. Capital will always follow great talent and in this market, it will be great talent that wins.

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