Small to medium-sized companies face a unique challenge in seeking growth financing to realize the next step of their evolution: neither start-ups nor large enterprises, these companies fall in a grey area in the corporate banking and venture capital markets.

LG10 experience shows that most SMEs looking for financing to bridge their next cycle of growth seek an infusion that is related to its current cash flow, retained earnings and book value of assets. Typically, these companies therefore seek between USD 1 and 10 million.

Neither Here nor There
Within this bracket, SMEs are too big to attract business angels and first round investors, and are too small to attract investment banks and international venture funds.

If a company's growth model involve time-sensitive capital expenditures and establishing foreign operations, these constraints pose serious challenges to success in realizing goals.

LG10 assists clients facing this dilemma by providing a suite of services that eliminates road blocks and targets good opportunities to the right audience for action and positive results:

• Business Plans to properly translate an opportunity into a form that is clearly understood and actionable by investors
• Administrative Management of the opportunity once it is ready for circulation in the financial community with respect to issues such as due diligence, and certification of company data
• Relationship Acquisition to establish the client within the financial community through preferred introductions and entree to decision makers and investors
• Investor Management to guide the client through the initial funding cycle and establish a lasting relationship for the future
• Coaching the client into the norms and standards of the financial community
• Closing Advice to secure the most equitable and advantageous financial terms