Due Diligence
Due Diligence
- Financial Due Diligence
- Legal Due Diligence
- Taxes Due Diligence
Benefits
The best of debt and equity
- Maintain Ownership & Control: We take no board seats. You control big decisions, such as whether you sell your business, raise equity, hire and fire your management team.
- Long Term Growth Capital: Use the capital for long term investments to reach your next major milestone, launch a new product, build your sales team, enter new markets. Build value to raise equity or sell your business at a higher valuation.
- Experience in Your Corner: We have built businesses ourselves and relate to the challenges you face and have decades of experience helping companies with strategic decisions, such as financing and M&A. We provide help and advice when you want it, but don’t look over your shoulder.
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Transparent Process: We will tell you quickly if we are a fit and explain why if we are not. We are very open about our process and do not ghost.
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BJ Lackland
Managing Partner
20+ years funding and leading startups
- 16 years in startup finance (equity & debt)
- Chief Investment Officer of Spikes Fund (2020-2023)
- Provides $1M-6M in growth debt to companies in Israel
- Capital partner for Equal Capital LLC
- CEO of Lighter Capital 2012-2019, funding over 650 deals for 350 companies
- Built company from 3 to 80 employees, from no deal flow to over 100 deals per year
- Pioneered Revenue-based financing
- Vice Chair, Founders First Capital Partners, 2020-Present (RBF for diverse founders)
- Raised $12M Series A and $130M in lending capital
- CFO, Power Efficiency Corp
- Partner, Summit Energy Ventures (VC)
- MBA & MAIS from University of Washington
- BA from Claremont McKenna College
Lucas Marshall
Partner
10+ years advising, funding and operating startups
- Managing Director, Lighter Capital
- Top originator - led ~100 deals during 4 year tenure
- Head of large deal origination ($750k-$3M)
- Co-Founder & VP, Seattle Finance Collective
- SFC is a private membership network of top financiers & financial service providers in the Pacific Northwest
- Principal, Private Capital & Senior AE, Azure, Microsoft
- Founder & Managing Partner, QC Media
- Investment Management & Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, Cascadia Capital, Broadmark Capital, Russell Investments
- Ironman, Seaplane Pilot, World Traveler (75 countries, 7 continents)
- Finance & Information Systems, University of Washington
Gideon Ziegelman
Partner
20 years of startup management and investment experience
- 2 successful startup exits (including an M&A exit – Vokee)
- Co-founded Pekan Alternative energy mutual fund, a top performing fund in Israel that was acquired by Bank Hapoalim In the past
- Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) for Precede VC
- MBA from INSEAD, France and Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology