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 lending enables venture capital investors and management to maximize their equity investment through leverage.

Western Technology Investment is focused on expanding this productive partnership between venture capital investors and venture lenders.

• A pioneer in this separate industry segment, WTI specializes in asset based financing for venture capital funded technology companies, both in their start-up and later stages.
• 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 nationally to companies representing most all areas of venture investment.

A Record of Steady Growth and Solid Accomplishment

• WTI is the largest independent venture lending organization in the United States.
• 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 good and difficult markets.
• Successfully completed eleven private offerings and have originated more than $2 billion dollars in asset based financing for venture capital financed companies.
• Through our venture lending operations, WTI entities hold warrants in numerous client companies.

Full Service Philosophy - Full Service Performance

• Our full service philosophy is best expressed in our performance. We offer a range of lending programs for companies in start-up through publicly traded stages of development.
• 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

Western Technology Investment 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 financing program.