Alternative Exit #72 | Private Equity Where the Exit Is to Employees. Brittany Brown, CoRise Capital

Alternative Exit · Oct 22, 2026 · 32m · transcript

Earlier this year, Brittany Brown left a career across corporate finance, venture capital and private equity to build one thing: a fund whose job is to create employee owners. CoRise Capital buys 100% of stable, profitable businesses, professionalises them over three to five years, then exits by selling to a 100% ESOP.

Brittany explains the “ESOPs creating ESOPs” model, why the fund is evergreen, and why investors have agreed to roll 50% of every distribution back in. She walks through the debt structure that offsets management fees, the governance, finance and culture work needed before an…