Jim Hale is the founding partner and current Partner Emeritus of FTV Capital. See sector focus and contact routes.
Jim Hale is the founding partner and current Partner Emeritus of FTV Capital, a San Francisco-based growth equity firm he co-founded in 1998 with Robert Huret after previously leading the financial services corporate finance practice at BancAmerica Securities. The firm’s investment thesis targets high-growth companies in enterprise technology, financial services, and payments/transaction processing, focusing on Series B and later rounds globally. FTV Capital typically leads its investments with check sizes ranging from $10 million to over $100 million. Notable portfolio companies include WePay, MarketShare, Globant, ACI Worldwide, and Mitek Systems, with Hale serving on the boards of the latter two. Hale has not published distinctive public writing or a unique point of view beyond his board roles and advisory work for McKinsey & Company and Columbus Strategic Advisors. While he is a certified public accountant with an MBA from Harvard, no specific public essays or investment manifestos by him are documented in available sources.
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