Creating VALUE For investors

How we create value for our investment companies, ENTREPRENEURS, & Private Equity Partners

Investment & ADvisory Services

Creating and capturing value is complex in future focused enterprises such as those F4 invests. Our professionals provide deep, global digital and physical commerce experience paired with deep vertical understanding in key consumer sectors. We are founders having started, scaled and exited from multiple digital, retail, brand and insight companies. We are considered industry thought leaders serving consumer services and product, retail and related technology companies (link to studio series) We have worked with deal teams to evaluate dozens of companies. We are deeply interested in specific verticals within the consumer commerce space

  • Aging: housing, care- giving, co-living and other companion solutions

  • Work force housing - lifestyle, co-living, and commuter

  • Retail delivered immunity solutions like restore.com

  • China commerce re-applied to the world

  • Auto ML as a service

  • Data aggregators and content management and full-service e-commerce agencies

  • AI/robotics and value stream engineering services

  • Last mile, urban industrial, micro fulfillment models

  • Retail rundowns and turnaround

  • Food delivery models including ghost kitchen space and other new proximate distribution

 

How we create value

For Leadership TEams

We bring management the following:

  • The very best insights on modern retail and commerce.

  • Years of experience as well as routine contact with companies in each sector we operate.

  • Executive educational experiences with leading faculty and practitioners (see www.the-fci.com)

  • An understanding of the “must know” information resources, analysts and experienced executives needed to make fact based decisions quickly.

Private Equity & Venture Firms

We answer your most critical questions now

  • Overall strategy & business model assessment

  • Competitive assessment—overall strengths, weaknesses and genuine threats impacting the company

  • Functional strategy and capability reviews in Sales, Marketing, Technology, Finance and General Management

  • Organizational assessment—management quality and competencies as well as the organizational effectiveness

Investment partners

Our goal is to invest in great companies.

Every engagement with early stage companies and their investors is tempered by this interest. We help raise private capital, advise founders and mid to large enterprise leadership teams and serve on selected advisory and corporate boards (see www.rockhurstllc.com)

Our Relationships

Companies we back gain access to our extended network of advisors in private equity and venture capital, operating executives in retail, consumer brands, marketing services and digital marketplaces, media and networks ( see examples below). Further, our academic endeavors with Harvard Business School and UCLA Anderson in particular connect preeminent faculty and practitioners. These outstanding individuals support management teams in areas such as marketplace development , digital selling, scaling AI/ML automation and related data management strategies, change management, G4 store development, practical go to market approaches as well as talent and organizational development. Our relationships are in many parts of the world.

 

Retail

 

  • 7-Eleven

  • WalMart (Globally)

  • Carrefour

  • Costco

  • H.E. Butt

  • Home Depot

  • Kroger

  • Loblaws

  • Marks & Spencer

  • Oxxo

  • Safeway

  • Staples (US, Canada)

  • Tesco (UK)


Consumer & Brands

 

  • Mars

  • Nestle

  • Novartis

  • Pfizer

  • Procter & Gamble

  • Rich Products

  • Revlon

  • Sara Lee

  • SC Johnson

  • Warner Brothers

  • Wrigley

  • 3M

  • Abbott Nutrition

  • ABI

  • Colgate-Palmolive

  • Coca-Cola Company

  • Disney

  • Energizer

  • Femsa

  • Georgia-Pacific

  • Hershey

  • Johnson & Johnson

Marketing & ANALYTICS

 

  • 8451 (Kroger)

  • Anthem Worldwide

  • Acosta

  • Advantage

  • Catalina Marketing

  • Cross mark

  • Edge By Ascential

  • Information Resources, Inc.

  • Kantar Retail

  • AC Nielsen

  • Premier Retail Networks (PRN)

  • Young & Rubicam


Technology & Media

 

  • Alibaba

  • Amazon

  • Celect

  • Data Robot

  • Demandware

  • Google

  • Grubhub

  • Microsoft

  • One Door

  • Signal Demand

  • Tencent

  • Zoom Systems