Your work is meaningful, and the experiences you create deserve to reach more people.
We are bringing together the best live events businesses and helping grow a new experience category: Enriching Entertainment. If you are a community-minded founder who has built something special in the events space, this is an invitation to join us.
Pay yourself first
Guaranteed founder salaries for 24 months. So you can focus
Stop trying to do it all
A team to handle your finance, HR, legal, and tech infrastructure
Get a roadmap, not just advice
A proven growth playbook — markets, formats, partners, templates
Ambitiously invest in your future
Growth capital for experiments and expansion: new markets, team, venue deposits, production capabilities, marketing, etc.
Stop trying to go it alone
Join a community of aligned founder-operators in the same category
We partner with event production, promotion, and management businesses. We seek out replicable event concepts and series, with demonstrated audience demand, and practical paths to growth.
Enriching Entertainment includes lectures and storytelling, live podcasts and interviews, discussion groups and debates, workshops and other interactive learning formats.
We invest in your growth without taking any ownership stake. We build trust both ways before becoming a significant Equity Holder and Operating Partner that can handle your back office and business infrastructure.
Phase 1: Growth Partner (No more than 24 months)
Many partnerships fail because trust is assumed, not built. This first phase is all about establishing a strong foundation for long term collaboration.
For up to two years, Encore covers founder salary, giving you the stability to focus entirely on growing your business. We're not taking equity upfront. Instead, we work on a revenue share model that keeps us aligned with your success. We want to avoid messy early conversations — no valuations, no extended negotiations, no big legal bills. This approach also means we can work with companies at any stage, including ones that haven't yet reached scale or generated significant profit.
During this time, we're actively working alongside your business, bringing resources, relationships, and operational expertise. We want to help grow EBITDA and build your capabilities before we ever talk about owning a piece — which means by the time equity enters the conversation, the business is worth much more. That's good for everyone, but especially founders.
Encore gives:
Encore gets:
Phase 2: Equity Operator
Once companies have demonstrated the ability to grow with our support, we have the opportunity to make an equity investment at a predetermined EBITDA multiple. A full buyout only happens if you want it to. Either way, this is structured to be a meaningful cash event for our partners.
As an Equity Operator, Encore will provide valuable shared services that remove cost and complexity, accelerating growth and allowing margins to expand.
Your salary stays in place. We also build in a performance bonus tied to how the business grows. And if the company is ever sold, you share in the upside.
Encore gives:
Encore gets:
From the day the partnership closes, you receive a guaranteed salary for up to 24 months — regardless of your business's month-to-month performance. It is not contingent on revenue targets. It is a guarantee, structured to give you the financial stability to focus on building rather than surviving.
Payments are based on historic founder distributions and prevailing market rates. The intention is to meet or exceed previous compensation.
EBITDA is a measure of business profitability: essentially your operating earnings before accounting for taxes, debt, and depreciation. A "4X EBITDA multiple" means the valuation of your business is set at four times that number. So if your business is generating $500K in EBITDA, the agreed valuation is $2M.
We set this multiple upfront, in the Phase 1 agreement, so there's no negotiation, no surprises, and no expensive valuation process when Phase 2 arrives. You know exactly what the number will be from day one. The goal of Phase 1 is to grow that EBITDA together, which means by the time we invest, the business (and your stake in it) is worth more than when we started.
Encore holds an option to invest anytime within the first 24 months. If Encore wants to make this investment, then the founder cannot exit the arrangement. This protects Encore's investment made in the Growth Partner phase.
However, a controlling stake always requires founder consent, and the investment terms are agreed upfront, so nothing comes as a surprise.
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