A d d u c e n t

Start-up / Seed Capital

If you are a Start-Up, Pre-Revenue or Early-Stage Business:

We can help prepare you so that you have the right documentation and presentation materials (an investor-ready business plan, PowerPoint presentation and even brochure style web site telling about your venture) for you to approach angel investors, venture capital or funding sources for your seed capital (start-up funding) and follow on funding to launch or grow your business. 

We also have a fast action guide "How To Find Money For Your Business" which is included in our business planning services for start-up businesses looking for capital for their business.  It is also available separately if you do not need our help with your business plan but are looking for funding for your venture.   Check it out, and then decide.  Its an immediate download, you will have it in your hands within minutes of ordering.

We recommend FundingUniverse as a resource to provide you professional level help to find funding for your business venture.

Angel Investor Funding
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Capital for Established Companies

Growth Capital:

Companies need capital to grow and reach their next level of success.  Without it many companies face a long struggle of boot-strapping growth through internal cash flow.  When an established company that meets investment criterial has significant opportunities to grow their business and the management team to execute the plan; we have resources to assist them.

Acquisition Capital:

Sometimes the best path to growth is not necessarily by internally growing the business through new products and additional sales & marketing. Growing through acquisition is a tried and true way to achieve significant growth and to accomplish it in a much faster timeline than through internal growth alone.  We have decades of deal and investment experience in helping companies grow through acquisition and we work directly with funding sources for these types of transactions.

Recapitalizations:

Company owners often seek a recapitalization in order to achieve what may appear to be conflicting goals: the sale of a significant portion of the business to create personal liquidity diversifying personal net worth, while retaining a significant stake in the business to participate in the future growth. Both of these goals are well served by a recapitalization from one of our resources, particularly given many of their track records of helping companies grow.

Family Succession Recapitalizations:

In the life of family businesses, there often comes a time when a recap is necessary to transition ownership from one generation of the family to another, to create liquidity and diversification in an estate, and to ensure that the next generation gets their opportunity to run and grow the business. Our resources have an extensive history of successfully navigating family dynamics and achieving the often divergent goals of different family members.
 
Management Buy-Outs:

When incumbent managers have the opportunity to buy the company or division that they run but do not own, they need a partner with the credibility, funding and experience to get the deal done. They want a partner who will treat the manager(s) generously, afford them significant ownership, and serve as an effective partner for growth. Our resources have proven to be a highly effective partner in MBOs of privately held companies, as well as divisions of Fortune 500 companies.  Also, management teams and executives could structure and fund their own buy-out or acquisition of the business.

Management Buy-Ins:

Company owners face profound challenges in the sale of their businesses or divisions when there is need for talent at the most senior levels of management. When asked, our resources have successfully recruited outstanding leadership, enabling this challenging type of transaction. We believe it is important to recruit not only the correct technical talent, but also the right personality who will fit with and respect the company's culture. Moreover, our resources have proven to be outstanding partners to recruited senior managers by sharing equity generously and helping to build value.

Industry Consolidations:

One of the greatest opportunities for business owners and equity investors to build value is found in fragmented industries where solid management teams have the ability to grow through add-on acquisitions. Several of our resources have been some of the nation's most active and successful consolidators of industries starting with lower middle market companies. Such consolidations entail partnering with a platform company and backing its owner/operators in the acquisition of several strategically attractive add-on companies. Some of their consolidation projects have grown in profit ten-fold, enjoying significant value creation, particularly given the purchase price multiple expansion realized as a result of increased size. These resources have demonstrated a healthy balance between the ability and desire to create precipitous growth, and the understanding that sufficient infrastructure and management talent must exist to ensure that the growth is both profitable and sustainable.

Private Equity:

Private equity investment is available for suitable established businesses with the revenue and net income or EBITDA that meet the investors initial criteria or requirements.  We have access to more than 1,275 Private Equity Firms and are able to match your financial needs to the investment criteria of those funding groups.

Please contact Dennis Lowery if you have an established business with growth opportunities and you would like to discuss which of the above capital solutions might be applicable or available for your business.