Advantage X

Advantage Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1992 and based in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt capital investments, primarily targeting small businesses at various stages of development, from early to later stages, excluding seed investments. Advantage Capital focuses on investing in low-income communities, both urban and rural, and supports state and local economic development initiatives. It seeks opportunities in sectors such as communication, information technology, telecommunications, business services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, and energy, while also considering investments in rural agricultural businesses. The firm typically makes initial investments ranging from $0.5 million to $10 million in companies with sales of less than $5 million, with potential for larger investments based on milestones. Advantage Capital also provides various forms of debt capital and prefers co-investing with other firms. The firm is committed to addressing the financing needs of underserved areas and fostering economic growth in communities lacking traditional sources of risk capital.

Al Alvarez

Director

Brian Anderson

Managing Director

Anthony Billings

Senior Vice President and Investment Team Member

Bitting, Thomas H.P.

Managing Director

Adam Constantinides

Senior Vice President

Anaƫlle Croteau

Vice President

Trey Garland

Senior Associate

Christopher C. Harris

Principal

Joseph Henderson

Senior Vice President

Leah Hendricks

Vice President

Reid Hutchins

Managing Director

Peter Lu

Senior Associate

David McNaught

Vice President

Arjun Mohan

Vice President

Sandra M. Moore

Managing Director / Chief Impact Officer

Scott Murphy

Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer

Justin N. Obletz

CFO and Managing Director

Tim Perusek

Principal and Investment Group Member

Keith Pettus

Principal

Damon L. Rawie

Managing Director

Josh Rogers

Principal

Gabe Rosen

Vice President

Talmadge Singer

Managing Director

Steven T. Stull

President

Matthew Switzer

Vice President

Tony Toups

Principal

Alexandra Twyman

Vice President

Benjamin T. Warning

Vice President

J.P. Lynch

Vice President

Past deals in Kansas

PayIt

Convertible Note in 2018
PayIt, LLC is a Kansas City-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing cloud-based solutions to modernize government payments. Its platform simplifies interactions with state, local, and federal governments by offering a digital wallet and a user-friendly website. PayIt employs various technologies, including microservices, RESTful web services, and cloud-native development, to create a seamless experience for residents accessing essential government services. The company's innovative platform enables governments to accept digital payments securely across multiple devices, enhancing service delivery to constituents. Through its patent-pending mobile transaction platform, PayIt aims to foster collaboration among partners in the industry to improve government services.

PayIt

Convertible Note in 2017
PayIt, LLC is a Kansas City-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing cloud-based solutions to modernize government payments. Its platform simplifies interactions with state, local, and federal governments by offering a digital wallet and a user-friendly website. PayIt employs various technologies, including microservices, RESTful web services, and cloud-native development, to create a seamless experience for residents accessing essential government services. The company's innovative platform enables governments to accept digital payments securely across multiple devices, enhancing service delivery to constituents. Through its patent-pending mobile transaction platform, PayIt aims to foster collaboration among partners in the industry to improve government services.

PayIt

Series A in 2016
PayIt, LLC is a Kansas City-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing cloud-based solutions to modernize government payments. Its platform simplifies interactions with state, local, and federal governments by offering a digital wallet and a user-friendly website. PayIt employs various technologies, including microservices, RESTful web services, and cloud-native development, to create a seamless experience for residents accessing essential government services. The company's innovative platform enables governments to accept digital payments securely across multiple devices, enhancing service delivery to constituents. Through its patent-pending mobile transaction platform, PayIt aims to foster collaboration among partners in the industry to improve government services.

Sunflower Food & Spice Co.

Debt Financing in 2012
Sunflower Food & Spice Company Co. Ltd. LLC, founded in 1994 and based in Riverside, Missouri, specializes in producing sunflower seeds and gourmet snacks. The company's diverse product range includes cookies, popcorn, chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, nuts, pretzel snacks, and seed vinaigrettes. In addition to these offerings, it provides specialty items such as cheese and seed biscuits and bagel spread mixes. Sunflower Food & Spice serves a variety of customers, including gift basket companies, gourmet retailers, department stores, and the food service industry. Its products are available through specialty groceries, supermarkets, department stores, and retail chains, as well as an e-commerce platform that focuses on sweet foods. The company is also located in Lenexa, Kansas, highlighting its operational reach.

Sunflower Food & Spice Co.

Debt Financing in 2011
Sunflower Food & Spice Company Co. Ltd. LLC, founded in 1994 and based in Riverside, Missouri, specializes in producing sunflower seeds and gourmet snacks. The company's diverse product range includes cookies, popcorn, chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, nuts, pretzel snacks, and seed vinaigrettes. In addition to these offerings, it provides specialty items such as cheese and seed biscuits and bagel spread mixes. Sunflower Food & Spice serves a variety of customers, including gift basket companies, gourmet retailers, department stores, and the food service industry. Its products are available through specialty groceries, supermarkets, department stores, and retail chains, as well as an e-commerce platform that focuses on sweet foods. The company is also located in Lenexa, Kansas, highlighting its operational reach.

Barton-Nelson

Debt Financing in 2011
Barton-Nelson is a manufacturer of advertising products that creates SpiderTac Sticky Notes and uses sticky notes as a marketing tool. It was headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

Fabricor

Debt Financing in 2010
Fabricor is a manufacturer, processor, and provider of solid surface and stone fabrication. The products offered are granite, engineering stone (Quartz), solid surface, and green products. It may apply to countertops, vanities, toilet partitions and screens, telephone booths, work surfaces, conference areas, food preparation areas, food servers' sales counters, servers' stations, hospitals, and medical facilities, military establishments, window stools and sills, interiors of railcars, and many more. It was started in 1982 and is headquartered in North Kansas City, Missouri.

Sunflower Food & Spice Co.

Debt Financing in 2010
Sunflower Food & Spice Company Co. Ltd. LLC, founded in 1994 and based in Riverside, Missouri, specializes in producing sunflower seeds and gourmet snacks. The company's diverse product range includes cookies, popcorn, chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, nuts, pretzel snacks, and seed vinaigrettes. In addition to these offerings, it provides specialty items such as cheese and seed biscuits and bagel spread mixes. Sunflower Food & Spice serves a variety of customers, including gift basket companies, gourmet retailers, department stores, and the food service industry. Its products are available through specialty groceries, supermarkets, department stores, and retail chains, as well as an e-commerce platform that focuses on sweet foods. The company is also located in Lenexa, Kansas, highlighting its operational reach.

Profile Cabinet and Design

Debt Financing in 2009
Profile Cabinet and Design creates bespoke cabinets of the highest quality and sells natural and engineered stone. Headquartered in Kansas City.

Sunflower Food & Spice Co.

Venture Round in 2008
Sunflower Food & Spice Company Co. Ltd. LLC, founded in 1994 and based in Riverside, Missouri, specializes in producing sunflower seeds and gourmet snacks. The company's diverse product range includes cookies, popcorn, chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, nuts, pretzel snacks, and seed vinaigrettes. In addition to these offerings, it provides specialty items such as cheese and seed biscuits and bagel spread mixes. Sunflower Food & Spice serves a variety of customers, including gift basket companies, gourmet retailers, department stores, and the food service industry. Its products are available through specialty groceries, supermarkets, department stores, and retail chains, as well as an e-commerce platform that focuses on sweet foods. The company is also located in Lenexa, Kansas, highlighting its operational reach.

Sunflower Food & Spice Co.

Debt Financing in 2008
Sunflower Food & Spice Company Co. Ltd. LLC, founded in 1994 and based in Riverside, Missouri, specializes in producing sunflower seeds and gourmet snacks. The company's diverse product range includes cookies, popcorn, chocolate-covered sunflower seeds, nuts, pretzel snacks, and seed vinaigrettes. In addition to these offerings, it provides specialty items such as cheese and seed biscuits and bagel spread mixes. Sunflower Food & Spice serves a variety of customers, including gift basket companies, gourmet retailers, department stores, and the food service industry. Its products are available through specialty groceries, supermarkets, department stores, and retail chains, as well as an e-commerce platform that focuses on sweet foods. The company is also located in Lenexa, Kansas, highlighting its operational reach.

Renaissance Financial

Debt Financing in 2008
Renaissance Financial Corporation is a financial services firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, with additional offices in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and Kansas City, Kansas. Founded in 1994, the company specializes in providing tailored financial advisory services to individuals, families, and businesses across the United States. For individual clients, Renaissance offers comprehensive financial planning services that include assessments of current financial positions, life insurance planning, investment strategies, tax planning, retirement planning, estate planning, and wealth accumulation and preservation. For business clients, the firm provides a range of solutions such as business planning, key person life insurance, estate planning, business continuation strategies, and executive benefit programs. Over the years, Renaissance Financial has grown significantly, expanding from 14 founding members to a team of over 130 professionals dedicated to helping clients achieve financial freedom through personalized and creative planning.
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