Ventana Group

The Ventana Group is a global investment banking firm and private equity business consultancy that provides a wide range of sophisticated financial services and strategic advise to a worldwide client base of entrepreneurs, corporations and financial institutions.

Since 1998, the Ventana Group has been providing corporate finance advisory services to small and middle market businesses. Our firm arranges debt and equity capital for transactions and provides a broad range of corporate finance expertise in support of client growth, refinance and M&A. Ventana focuses on opportunities with a size of up to $50 million and has developed a special expertise with transactions under $20 million.

Our professionals have structured and placed a wide variety of investment vehicles including: working capital revolving credit facilities, term loan facilities, subordinated or "mezzanine" debt, joint venture financing, "strategic" equity placements and bridge financing. This knowledge and experience enables us to assist our clients in choosing the capital structure that best meets their objectives, whether it is to finance growth, acquisitions, recapitalize the company, broaden the shareholder base or achieve certain tax planning objectives. Our industry focus together with our extensive global network of contacts with institutional and corporate providers of capital enables us to quickly match our clients' carefully examined capital requirements with one or more appropriate capital sources. Our knowledge of the objectives, strengths and decision-making process of the relevant capital providers greatly facilitates the forging of successful long-term financial partnerships.

Our partners have an extensive background in Private Equity/Venture Capital where they have served as executives in groups including JP Morgan, GE Capital, CFA Technology Partners, 2M Invest, Aldare Capital Partners and Ventana Ventures. With this experience and breadth of knowledge of the equity industry, we provide a host of highly specialized advisory services for non-US based Private Equity/Venture Capital firms. The Ventana Group has acted as the US based representation for the US based investment activities of foreign VC firms.

These services include the following:

Monitoring and Reporting of US based portfolios

Third Party Assessments of US based portfolios

Due Diligence Reports of prospective US based investments

Deal Sourcing of US based investments

Board Representation of US based portfolios

Sell side M&A advisory for US based portfolios

Fund raising syndication for US based portfolios

The Ventana Group is currently providing these services for foreign-based investment groups and has a dedicated team of professionals to represent the best interests of our clients in these investment fields.

These companies, and many others, look to the Ventana Group to serve as a creative financial resource. We understand the needs of early-stage, high growth businesses. So we can offer the responsiveness, the services, the expertise and the capital you need to grow your business.

Jiaxing Winsaint Photovoltaic $18,000,000 Term Loan $6,000,000 Equity People's Republic of China	Emerald Dairy (NASDAQ: EMDY) $1,500,000 Bridge Loan People's Republic of China	Kimomex Markets $600,000 Bridge Loan California
Naturade (OTC:NRDCQ) $1,200,000 Recapitalization California	CryoPort Systems (OTC:CYRX) $4,500,000 Convertible Senior Term Loan California	Redux Holdings $1,500,000 Bridge Loan California
Ride Gear $500,000 Internet Term Loan California	Window Rock Enterprises $4,000,000 Line of Credit $500,000 Term Loan California	Olson & Co. Steel $6,000,000 Line of Credit $3,500,000 Term Loan California
GBC Blue $2,500,000 Lease Line California	CryoPort Systems (OTC:CYRX) $150,000 Bridge Loan California	Monterey Road Properties $1,600,000 Acquisition California
SVC Financial Services (NASDAQ:SVCX) $250,000 Bridge Loan California	Tumble Express Acquisition Term Loan California	Monterey Properties $1,100,000 Bridge Loan San Jose, CA
Triple Header Productions $2,600,000 Bridge Loan Nevada	PMIS $500,000 Line of Credit Texas	IP Global Voice $5,000,000 Acquisition California
Acosta Mfg $1,000,000 Revolver $4,500,000 RE Loan California	BlueSky Research $1,100,000 Venture Line California	Nex Gen MD $1,000,000 Acquisition New Jersey
Citation Press $2,900,000 Recapitalization California	Digital Ventures $3,000,000 Restructure California	ILogistix $5,000,000 Equity $25,000,000 Senior Debt California

Because the members of Ventana have solid backgrounds in business finance, Ventana has developed a solid reputation in the finance industry, as a trusted intermediary in regards to the assessment, valuation and structure of its clients finance needs.

Ventana has closed and funded financing transactions with many significant financial institutions as financing partners. They include BFI, Bridge Bank, CIT Group, Comerica, Congress Financial Corp., GE Capital Corp., GMAC, J.P Morgan, Orix Business Credit, Textron Financial Corp., Transamerica Business Credit, Venture Bank and US Bank.

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