Liquidity Club Startup Information

• Liquidity Club is an exclusive, invitation-only global community dedicated to accelerating revenue growth, extension into new markets and liquidity exits for post-seed mid-stage global startups. The Club profiles, tracks, matches, and connects high-potential tech and non-tech companies with a curated network of members including corporates, investors, and seasoned experts. Members gain access to strategic opportunities including market expansion, product bundling partnerships, and high-value collaborations, creating a powerful catalyst for scale and exit-readiness.
  Members gain access to shared connections, a deep knowledge base, and directly relevant, dynamic content. Cutting-edge AI powers the Club’s platform and delivers real-time insights on growth and operational strategies, company financings and exit events—including funding rounds, mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.

To help innovative mid-stage tech and non-tech startups succeed by connecting them with the right resources, relationships, and expertise within the global Club community to increase revenue, source capital, and achieve meaningful liquidation events. The Club is the world’s most advanced management support community and resource hub for the very best mid-stage companies.

Liquidity Club was founded by a team of recognized and accomplished Silicon Valley veterans including:

• Mark White – CEO (founding partner and head of strategy for White Summers, founder/CEO of Tsunami Investments, and a board member of and/or strategy advisor to numerous companies in US and EU)
• David Smith – CTO (founder/CEO of Silicon Valley High School, Silicon Valley Business School, and Tynax)
• Scott Axelrod – COO (leading executive with AARP, AOL-Time Warner, and Vistage)
• Harry Blount – CIO (founder/CEO of Discern Analytics, more than 20 years of executive and financial experience on Wall Street including senior roles with Lehman Bros, Credit Suisse First Boston, DLJ, and CIBC Oppenheimer)

Startups, investors, and expert service providers who meet our eligibility criteria. Membership is by invitation and approval by the Club’s Selection Committee.

First—to bridge orphaned mid-stage companies to liquidity: Mid-stage companies that are post-seed, pre-Series A are orphaned. Accelerators typically work with early-stage ventures, and institutional VCs invest in and support established growth companies. The Club was formed to address the unique situational requirements of post-seed innovation companies that need to bridge the gap to institutional capital and predictable revenue—basically “operational liquidity.”

Second—to reconnect the fractured post-pandemic global tech economy: Tech regions around the world in the post-pandemic global economy are now balkanized into distinct geographic regional economies in the EU, LATAM, CEE, EMEA, India, SE Asia, Asia, and Africa. Each region has its own sector players, ecosystems, and dynamics. Club members are the best mid-stage tech companies from all regions sharing connections and knowledge that facilitate market expansion, new revenue, and capital sourcing opportunities—enabling attractive growth and exits.

Third—to provide mature companies and teams with access to deep actionable real-time knowledge for decision-making: All companies need immediate access to real-time, relevant knowledge and data on innovation development, market trends, creative operational work-arounds, and company tracking towards objectives—information that AI alone doesn’t provide. Connections to other member founders, executives, investors, experts, and corporates provide the business intelligence necessary to grow and succeed.

Fourth—to provide visibility and connection to the best of the best: No company, no founder, and no executive can waste time. Only meaningful connections are useful. The Club’s membership is vetted, qualified, deeply profiled, and categorized for easy identification and outreach.

Fifth—to identify and provide access to vetted experts covering everything that matters: Identifying and connecting with the right experts to help in unique situations and in different areas of the world is not easy. The Club enables this.

Finally—to organize and host substantive point-specific events and discussions on complex, dynamic topics in tech—not mumbo-jumbo: Most tech meetups and conferences are regional and generic—and largely off-point to the specific needs and interests of CEOs. The Club forum events are constructed to be point-specific to members with common sector, regional, or functional interests and needs. Members group themselves by interest, and live discussions or asynchronous streaming chat discussions are hosted by experts with specific domain expertise.

Only the best mid-stage global companies are members. The Club’s experts, tools, content, events, and database of investors plus corporates primarily focus on mid-stage and mezzanine stage companies. The Club platform enables CEOs to identify and acquire the resources, knowledge, and connections they actually need and not waste time. Tech is global and so is the Club, facilitating dealmaking everywhere. The Club’s mission is successful exits for our members. This ethos and direction is largely unaddressed in tech today.

The Club’s Value is in its Members: The Club members include vetted, qualified, and selected companies, experts, investors, corporates, and accelerators. Only qualified members are invited to join. The Club provides deep data and profiling which enables members to privately and directly identify and connect based on shared interests.
Events and Shared Interests Unite the Club Community: The Club maintains a revolving 6-week calendar of Club forum events consisting of live group webinars and asynchronous chats among members of all categories self-selected by areas of interest. Events are proposed and may be hosted by companies, experts, corporates, and investors once approved by the Club. The Club provides scheduling, online platform support, promotion, and event moderation. Event content is made available to all members in the Club library.

The Club Platform enables Members to Support Each Other: Through CEO-to-CEO connections, CEO connections to experts, investors and corporates—and private discussions and events among member communities. Investors can connect and communicate with other investors in the investor room. Experts can connect in the experts room.

The Club Library provides a 24×7 resource: In the Club Library, all members can access deep curated content on a mix of expected, critical, and complex issues involving company operations, structuring alternatives, strategic matters, tax and legal concerns, financial standards, modeling, and the like—segmented by industry, region and country, and functional area. Our knowledge base incorporates our Club research, uploads and contributions by other members including our experts—and matters covered in our forum events. Materials can be easily searched and retrieved through “Melvil,” our AI-powered knowledge bot