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Lighter Capital

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Lighter Capital was created to address the needs of business owners with a new form of growth funding.

Instead of lending money at fixed rates, Lighter Capital offers loans in exchange for a percentage of future revenues. So payments start small, and only increase as the company is able to grow revenues. Lighter Capital invests $50,000 to $500,000 in growing tech-based companies.

Investment qualifications:

• Annual revenue > $200k
• Gross margin >50%
• SaaS, ISV, or Tech focused

Advantages of a Lighter Capital investment:

• No dilution, no loss of control
• Fast access to capital ~ 1 month
• Flexible payments

This approach, called revenue based finance, is common in the mining and entertainment industries, and now Lighter Capital is applying it to the needs of tech-based companies

Recent Milestones

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  Lighter Capital added Jonathan Saunders as Director of Operations. (10/1/12)
  Posted 10/20/12 at 2:35pm
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  Lighter Capital added BJ Lackland as CEO. (6/1/12)
  Posted 10/24/12 at 3:07pm
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  Lighter Capital added Bryan Nisperos as Director of Customer Acquisition. (9/1/11)
  Posted 9/20/11 at 3:48pm
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  Lighter Capital added Drew Schwarz as Director of Marketing. (4/1/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 1:42pm
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  Lighter Capital added Rob Belcher as Principal. (3/15/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 1:42pm
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  Lighter Capital added Christian Jacobsen as Marketing Contractor. (10/1/10)
  Posted 11/1/10 at 1:29pm
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  Lighter Capital added John Roper as Developer. (8/1/10)
  Posted 4/7/11 at 11:21am
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  Lighter Capital added Randall Lucas as VP. (6/1/10)
  Posted 4/22/13 at 4:41am
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  Lighter Capital received $6M in Venture Round funding. (6/1/10)
  Posted 6/7/10 at 11:07am
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  Lighter Capital added Erik Benson as Director. (5/1/10)
  Posted 6/11/10 at 7:54pm
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  Lighter Capital added Andy Sack as Chairman.
  Posted 6/7/10 at 11:08am
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  Lighter Capital added Thomas Thurston as Special Advisor.
  Posted 6/7/10 at 11:08am

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