FI  DFE Capital Management

https://www.dfecm.com/





     Office Locations:

7600 East Doubletree Ranch Road, #300
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
Phone: 480-367-7000

 

Stages:

  • Early
  • Expansion
  • Growth


 

Industries:

  • Consumer Products & Services
  • Financial Services
  • Food & Agriculture
  • Real Estate & Construction

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    Description:

    DFE Capital Management is the direct investing arm of DF Enterprises, a single family office managing the assets of Campbell Soup heir Bennett Dorrance. The firm has significant exposure to the consumer food space. DFE Capital Management takes an opportunistic approach to investing, looking to partner with high quality growth and later stage private businesses that are ready to disrupt a growing addressable market, have strong conscientious management teams and an aligned and dedicated investor base. The grandson of John T. Dorrance, the inventor of condensed soup, Bennett Dorrance owns a 15% stake in Campbell Soup. Dorrance is a founding partner of DMB Associates https://dmbinc.com/, a real estate development firm with projects in Arizona, Utah, California and Hawaii. According to Forbes he is worth just shy of $3B. A licensed pilot, Dorrance owns a private hangar in Scottsdale, Arizona that sometimes houses his vintage car collection. Dorrance serves on the Board of Directors of TGen, a genomics research corporation, Insight Enterprises, Inc., The Nature Conservancy Arizona and Campbell Soup Company and is active in a number of professional, civic and community organizations. He has also been involved as a board member of Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, Phoenix Country Day School and the Desert Botanical Garden.



    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Bennett Dorrance Founder
    Bennett Dorrance Jr. Managing Director
    Chasen Harris Private Equity Associate
    Jason Stiles CEO
    Terence Thompson Director of Investments

     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Campbell Soup


      Coplex


     

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