Celebrating how far we've come

One of the hardest parts about running a small business or a startup is the fact that you’re always trying to raise the bar and your success breeds more work in the future.

You have a successful quarter, and then the next quarter is a much bigger goal meaning you’re going to have to work more and harder. You raise a fund which is a major milestone and then you eventually deploy it, and then you have to go out and raise that next fund.

You rarely have the luxury of accomplishing a goal and then being able to relax for an extended period of time. Often times, it’s a one or two week recharge and then you’re back at it. Of course, this is also the reason why building a business is so rewarding.

All that said, I want to make sure that we celebrate how far we’ve come here at Secfi. Sitting in 2022 with the market crashing, things wee not looking great. We had capital so we knew that we weren’t going under imminently, but the private market crash meant that things were about to come to screeching halt on the revenue and fundraising side.

We had to make a ton of tough decisions and really grind through 2022 through 2023 to survive. We did exactly that and then 2024 was the first signs of growth again which was rewarding, but we quickly switched over to 2025 and had more ambitious goals.

It’s easy to forget how far we’ve come since those tough times in 2022. It feels like we haven’t accomplished a lot, but yet we’re sitting here in 2025 in a prime position right now. We successfully navigated the multi-year down market to get the company in a great spot to take advantage of the next cycle. That’s something to celebrate and we need to remember to do just that.