Leadership:
Michael Sutherland Brown, CEO
Headquarters:
New York, NY
QED Investment:
2022
QED Champions:
Teamshares Inc. is an employee ownership platform for small business, driven by proprietary software, education, and financial products. Its mission is to create $10 billion of new wealth for employees through stock ownership. The company buys traditional small businesses from retiring owners to make them 80% employee-owned within 20 years, and provides the companies with new leadership, financial education, equity management software, and financial products.
Teamshares is the market leader for small business employee ownership, with 84 companies acquired to date and over $400 million of consolidated revenue. Founded in 2019, the company has 140 employees across the U.S. and Canada. Learn more at https://www.teamshares.com/
Teamshares is a unique company with a huge addressable market. It combines an unmatched customer value prop and a compelling business model with an authentic social mission: employee ownership. Transitioning stock ownership from a single business owner into the hands of employees matches the shifting preferences of society. Employee ownership aligns the interests of all stakeholders and makes companies and people better off financially.
Frank Rotman