San Francisco based employee ownership buyout platform raised $2.6m in Seed funding led by Crossbeam Venture Partners.
“By using employee ownership trusts, our approach allows businesses to become employee owned up front and stay independent, as opposed to being rolled up into a holding company for 20 years before eventually becoming employee owned.”
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/11/common-trust-2-6m-business-succession-plan/