Alethea protects clients from the threat of disinformation that targets brands, reputations, employee safety or financial bottom lines. The firm uses its own proprietary advanced technology as well as industry-leading investigation and remediation services. Alethea Group, headquartered in Washington, DC, is women and disability-owned and operated.

Integral is an employee activation agency that focuses on business transformation. Particular attention is paid to the complexities of managing corporate culture in support of strategic busines priorities, especially in an emerging post-Covid workplace. The firm is led by Ethan McCarty, a highly regarded executive in the field who previously led employee engagement work at IBM and Bloomberg.

Morning Consult is a global data intelligence company established in 2014. It was named one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte in both 2018 and 2019. Morning Consult’s proprietary data intelligence technology has revolutionized market research and financial data with its unprecedented scale and speed. With access to more than 100 million people globally, the company’s survey research platform collects more than 15,000 daily interviews nationally representative of populations in 15 countries. FHS was an early investor.

Applecart was founded in recognition of a challenge: the most influential individuals—executives, investors, policymakers—are the most difficult to access. Historically, organizations have often spent hundreds of millions of dollars to reach a handful of these key people.

Applecart’s technology is designed to level the playing field.

Originally developed to reach the most elite stakeholders in government, Applecart now empowers clients to reach their most important and hard-to-reach decision makers effectively, at scale, and across categories.

The Next Practices Group is a founder-driven collective of firms, deep in technology and with expertise in marketing and communications, that creates perpetual competitive advantage for their clients. NPG was founded by Bob Pearson, a former colleague of Bob’s and a leader in the field. FHS’ investment was made in April 2021.

DrivePath Advisors is the leading communications advisory firm specializing in all sectors of the energy industry. The firm is known for its deep corporate affairs and financial communications expertise with senior executives who have deep client-side experience.  DrivePath excels in supporting transformational opportunities, managing pivotal reputational moments and navigating complex situations to achieve the right business outcomes.

The earned media industry is highly fragmented and inefficient, relying heavily on PR firms. Platform aggregation has delivered network effects while creating transformative value across many industries, but not yet communications. Earned media is heavily reliant on outdated tech such as email, phone calls, and spreadsheets. The industry is ripe to be disrupted by technology and aggregation tools.

Qwoted brings network benefits to the earned media market. Through tech enablement and platform aggregation, Qwoted enables all constituents to interact seamlessly, with or without PR intermediaries. 

Kyne was an award-winning healthcare communications agency founded by David Kyne that FHS supported ultimately leading to a successful exit; the firm today is part of Inizio, a global healthcare and life sciences consultancy.  David Kyne is now an FHS partner, as well as co-founder of the Kyne Foundation, a non-profit with a focus on health and education in Africa and Europe.