Partners in Progress

Start-up and emerging growth companies have traditionally relied on equity capital to finance their growth. Professionally managed venture capital funds have been the most significant source for this equity. Venture debt enables venture capital investors and management teams to maximize their equity investment through leverage.

WTI is focused on expanding this productive partnership between venture capital investors and venture lenders.

• A pioneer in this separate industry segment, WTI specializes in both growth capital and asset-based financings for VC-backed companies throughout their company lifecycles.
• Our experience working with early stage companies enables us to more effectively finance later stage portfolio companies. Consequently, many of our customers are more mature organizations attracted by our highly responsive and competitive services that fill the gap between equity financing and traditional bank lending and leasing.
• These services are offered globally to companies representing most all areas of venture investment.

A Record of Steady Growth and Solid Accomplishment

• WTI is the oldest and largest independent venture debt firm in the world.
• Founded in 1980 to assist new and emerging venture capital backed companies, we are long term players with the experience and resources necessary to support our clients in both strong and challenging markets.
• WTI's 12th fund buils upon the success of the firm's 30-year history, which includes investments in companies such as Brocade, Cerent, Facebook, Google, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Infoseek, IronPort, Juniper Networks, NanoSolar, Postini, Transmeta, VeriSign, and many others.

Full Service Philosophy - Full Service Performance

• Our full service philosophy is best expressed in our performance. We offer a range of lending structures for companies of all development stages, from seed-stage start-ups to publicly-traded companies.
• Our clients deal directly with WTI principals, so decisions are reached and implemented clearly and quickly - the kind of fast, decisive turnaround not commonly found in the financial services industry, but especially appreciated by fast growing companies.
• We structure transactions appropriate to the individual situation.
• We seek to build long term relationships so that we can continue to serve the expanding financing requirements of emerging and more mature companies.
• We identify and nurture the mutual interests that facilitate the client's success in addition to our own.

Growing Together

WTI continues to build its reputation as a venture lending specialist by developing a diversified portfolio of transactions which mirror venture capital investments by geography and industry. We are well prepared, with the dedication and resources necessary to enlarge our role in this important growth area.

WTI has assisted many companies with services that strengthened their financial foundations and facilitated their growth. Like our client base, our perspective is widening as our capabilities are expanding. We invite inquiries as to how WTI may contribute to your corporate finance plans.