Founders Camp Capital Launches to Invest in Founder-Led Technology and Professional Services Firms in the AI Economy

New York, NY / Washington, D.C., August 4, 2026 — Founders Camp Capital, LLC (“Founders Camp Capital” or “the Firm”) today announced its launch as a private investment firm pairing operating and transaction experience with AI and digital transformation capability to back founder-led technology and professional services businesses in the lower middle market.

The firm invests in businesses generating $10M–$50M in revenue and $2M–$10M in EBITDA across U.S. commercial and federal government end markets. Founders Camp operates as an independent sponsor, investing deal-by-deal, and pursues minority and control investments.

Founders Camp invests across two tracks:

• Accelerate AI Builders & Enablers. Technology and services firms whose specialized skills provide the critical capability enterprises need for AI to function and deliver ROI.
• Scale Specialist Firms. Professional services firms with specialization — deep in a single industry, a technical discipline, or both — that enterprises trust and can't operate without.

Within these tracks, the firm focuses on six specific themes, from AI infrastructure to cybersecurity, detailed at founderscampcapital.com.

Founders Camp Capital was built around a single conviction: the greatest value creation opportunity in the AI economy is not in building better models. It is in backing the firms enterprises rely on to make AI work, and the specialist firms they can't operate without — businesses grounded in domain expertise, client trust, and switching costs that are difficult to replace.

“Founders know their business needs more than capital to reach the next stage. So do capital providers. It requires operating experience, technology depth, and capital markets discipline on the same team. Founders Camp was built to be that partner.”

Derrick Raymond, Founder and Managing Partner

What Founders Camp Brings

• Operators and investors in one team. The people who evaluate investments are the same people who work alongside companies after closing — strategy, operations, AI and technology, transactions, and capital markets in one team.
• Institutional investment discipline. Diligence, structuring, and capital formation run to the standard of a regulated investment bank, with capital providers evaluating each opportunity on its own terms.
• Founder alignment. Seller rollover is expected, so the founder retains meaningful ownership and both sides are invested in the same outcome after closing.
• A wider vantage point. Pattern recognition from a volume of transactions rarely found in a single team, paired with firsthand experience building, buying, and selling businesses, and how to position a business for what's next.

“In more than 30 years advising boards and founders, I have learned that the difference between a good outcome and a great one is rarely the market. The best exits are created years before they happen. Companies at this size rarely get that caliber of attention. Founders Camp exists to bring it.”

Eric Gebaide, Founder and Managing Partner, IA Global Capital

Vice-Chair, Investment Committee, Founders Camp Capital

The gap between AI investment and AI results is well documented: MIT NANDA's 2025 study, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business, found that only 5 percent of integrated AI pilots deliver measurable P&L impact, with specialized vendors succeeding at roughly twice the rate of internal enterprise builds.

“Enterprises come to Fulcrum Digital because their internal AI programs have not produced the results they expected. The programs that work are led by people with real domain and technical depth, which is exactly the profile of the firms Founders Camp partners with. I built a global company from the ground up, so I know the problems that stall a business at this size. I am glad to be part of a firm built to bring founders more than capital.”

Rajesh Sinha, Founder and Chairman, Fulcrum Digital

Chief AI & Emerging Technology Advisor, Founders Camp Capital

Senior Team

• Derrick Raymond, Founder and Managing Partner. Founded and built the Corporate Development function at KPMG, where he spent 18 years, including as Principal, serving on the Investment Committee and sourcing and closing acquisitions to seed new capability and fuel the growth of the firm.
• Rajesh Sinha, Chief AI & Emerging Technology Advisor. Founder and Chairman of Fulcrum Digital, an AI-driven digital transformation firm serving 1,000+ enterprise clients with roughly 1,500 technologists across the United States, Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and India.
• Eric Gebaide, Vice-Chair, Investment Committee. Founder and Managing Partner of IA Global Capital, a technology-focused investment bank based in New York and London. FINRA- and FCA-registered. More than 25 years advising CEOs and boards of technology companies; previously Head of U.S. Technology Services at Broadview International.

The Senior Advisors include Samir Shah, former Global CEO of Aurionpro and founder of Cyberinc; and Lara George, founder of MCM Capital, co-founder of Walacor, and CEO of a significant family office.

Founders Camp Capital is actively identifying platform investments and building relationships with founders, intermediaries, and capital providers aligned with its investment philosophy.