A new approach to investing in early-stage Triangle based companies.
In 2015, Triangle-based serial entrepreneur, Scot Wingo started the Triangle Tweener List focused on Triangle companies with over 10 people or $1m/yr in revenues.
After 7 years of data, we realized that this cohort of companies had very few closures, but also captured the Triangle's biggest and best exits.
In 2022, we launched the Triangle Tweener Fund to invest in Triangle Tweener companies using an index strategy.
General Partner
Scot Wingo has a Computer Engineering degree from the University of South Carolina and a Masters from North Carolina State University. He is a serial entrepreneur and currently CEO of Spiffy.
General Partner
Robbie Allen has a CS degree from ECU and several Masters from MIT. He was a Distiguished Engineer at Cisco and then left to found Automated Insights that was acquired by Vista Equity. He then founded Infinia ML and is now working on a super secret project - stay tuned.
Limited partners in the Tweener Fund are investors who are founders/operators in the Triangle, and open to having their name used and associated with the fund. These investors get unprecedented access to a group of local entrepreneurs and ecosystem supporters across the whole XTech spectrum!
View Full Funders ListOne of the benefits of being in the Tweener Fund portfolio is you will have access to an unprecedented group of local entrepreneurs and ecosystem supporters with a wide set of experiences across industries and company sizes.
AgTech, EdTech, FinTech, HealthTech, MarTech, AdTech, CPG/E-commerce, ML/AI, you name it. Our group has experience across the whole XTech spectrum!
Paired Media, Fantasy Life, The Convoy
Automated Insights, Infinia ML, Startomatic
TZerk Meida, TekPub, Adzerk, Kevel
Bagchi Law
UMANA, Babel Ventures, Sustainable Food Ventures, Wild Earth
Merrill Lynch, AEA Investors, Blum Capital, YipitData, Front Porch Venture Partners
Covidien, Medtronic, MemberHub
ExtensisHR, Project Resource Services, LLC
Fulbright, Tesla, Proterra, Atom Power
EOS, Bunker Labs
Chairman Emeritus McKinney, EIR Duke, Cubist Martini
Venture Lawyer @ Robinson Bradshaw, Joystick Labs
Epic Games, Diveplane
ArchiveSocial
Horizon Consulting, Babel Street, Pear Tree Heirlooms
Ecommerce/Marketing/Technology: News Corporation, Infonautics, Scan Mobile / Idealab, Fry Inc, Marc Ecko, Cornerstone Brands, Purchasing Power
Citrix, DigitalOcean, ServiceTrade
SmartPath, DoubleClick, ReverbNation, Adwerx, PlayMetrics
Triangle angel investor, investment crowdfunding advisor, HP, Intel, Adaptec, PLX
Davinci, Accipiter, Tethis, Next Century Spirits, Aries USA
Corporate Attorney – Greenberg Traurig, Moore & Van Allen, Founder of Forrest Firm, Managing Partner North Carolina for Michael Best
Serial entrepreneur, angel investor, small business & early stage mentor & philanthropist
Entrepreneur (On Target) and VC (Fulcrum Equity Partners & NC Venture Capital Multiplier Fund)
Eva Garland Consulting
theglobe.com, ToysRUs.com, eBay, The Feedroom, dms, Waterfall, MediaLink, Cooper Square Ventures, Techstars, Igniterate
Samanage, stealth newco
The Tweener Fund is a 'rolling fund' that is always open to new accredited investors. The minimum investment is $20,000 (4 investments of $5,000 per quarter) and after that it is a quarterly subscription. You can always choose to invest more or longer.
Check out this video pitch (~40mins) and if that doesn’t work for you, here are some alternatives
The Triangle Tweener Fund strategy is to build an index – smaller investments in a relatively large number of companies. At the current fund size this translates to 10-15 investments a quarter, or 40-60 a year. Second, we are focused on Triangle-based companies. Finally, our focus is early-stage (Seed/Series A) private companies, or Tweeners ($1m/yr and up).
