Scale Finance Closes 6 Growth Capital Financings

[CED Mentor Parter Member] Scale Finance LLC, provider of integrated finance solutions to help small companies scale, has closed six growth capital transactions in the last 90 days.

These infusions of capital, which came in the form of either new equity or debt, were critical enablers of growth and job creation for:

• Fuzzy Logix LLC (www.fuzzyl.com) provides high performance analytics software for big data applications. Charlotte-based Fuzzy Logix enables enterprise customers to embed In-Database Analytics directly into their business processes, data warehouses, enterprise applications, devices and web service.
• Cell Phone Repair Franchise Systems Inc., is the most widely known and respected brand in the cell phone and gadget repair industry. Georgia and Orlando based CPR® (www.cpr-stores.com) is the largest player in the industry with an anticipated 200 locations slated by the year 2013 
• Wellness Corporate Solutions LLC is a state-of-the-art corporate wellness company committed to providing a variety of high-touch, comprehensive wellness programs with an emphasis on the health education, behavior change and well being of employees – www.wellnesscorporatesolutions.com 
• T1 Visions Inc. (www.t1visions.com) is the early leader in interactive solutions using large format touchscreens for multi-user applications and is Charlotte-based 
• Yodil Inc. (www.yodil.com) provides business intelligence, data analytics, and operational/management reporting to the insurance industry
• Trident Marketing LLC is a leading sales, marketing, and technology company, based in Southern Pines and focused on customer generation for major brands across the United States.

Dave Gilroy, Managing Director of Scale Finance, commented, “we have highly specialized expertise in raising debt and equity capital to shore up balance sheets and help entrepreneurial companies to grow. Financing may come in the form of asset-based loans, working capital facilities, term loans, subordinate debt, growth equity, and venture capital. We run carefully managed, but robust processes to ensure our clients benefit from the best terms the market will bear.”

Scale Finance’s Transaction Advisory group has grown in the last year with the additions of Xan Smith and Sarah O’Leary to the team. Both come with extensive middle market investment banking backgrounds including firms such as Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, First Union Capital, Lehman Brothers, Bernstein/Alliance, Alex Brown, and Hambrecht & Quist.

Scale Finance principals have closed more than 80 growth capital raise transactions in the last 15 years.

About Scale Finance

Scale Finance LLC (www.scalefinance.com) provides contract CFO services, Controller solutions, and support in raising capital, or executing M&A transactions, to entrepreneurial companies. The firm specializes in cost-effective financial reporting, budgeting & forecasting, implementing controls, complex modeling, business valuations, and other financial management, and provides strategic help for companies raising growth capital or considering M&A/recapitalization opportunities. Most of the firm’s clients are growing technology, healthcare, business services, consumer, and industrial companies at various stages of development from start-up to tens of millions in annual revenue. Scale Finance LLC has offices throughout the southeast including Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham, Greensboro, Wilmington, Washington D.C. and South Florida with a team of more than 40 professionals serving more than 100 companies throughout the region.