Advantage X

Advantage Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1992, headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in growth equity, lending, and mezzanine debt investments, focusing primarily on small businesses at various stages of development, excluding seed stage. Advantage Capital targets investments in low-income communities, both urban and rural, and supports economic development initiatives. The firm seeks to invest in companies that utilize proprietary technologies in sectors such as communication, information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and energy, among others. It offers various forms of debt capital, including senior and mezzanine debt, and has a preference for co-investing with other firms. Initial investments typically range from $0.5 million to $10 million in companies with sales under $5 million, with potential for larger investments based on milestones. Advantage Capital is committed to addressing the funding gaps in underserved areas and fostering economic growth in communities that lack traditional sources of risk capital.

Al Alvarez

Director

Brian Anderson

PRINCIPAL

Alyson G. Appleton

VP of Communications, Marketing and Policy

Jay Bennett

Vice President of Business Development

Keith Berry

VP of Business Development

Anthony H. Billings

Vice President

Bitting, Thomas H.P.

PRINCIPAL

Troy Blaine

VP of Business Development

Charles H. Booker

Principal

Ryan Brennan

Managing Director

Samantha F. de Castro

Associate

Abhi Chandrasekhara

Senior Associate

Craig Cole

Vice President of Business Development

Chloe Coniaris

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Adam Constantinides

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Jeffrey W. Craver

Principal

Anaëlle Croteau

ASSOCIATE

Jeremy R. Degenhart

Principal

Maurice Doyle

Managing Director

Ryan Dressler

Principal

Louis T. Dubuque

Managing Director

Eric Dunham

VP of Business Development

Michele Fleher

Business development officer

Beth Fore

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Keith Freeman

Managing Director

Jeffrey Gentsch

Venture Partner

Gregory P. Gish

Senior Vice President

Jonathan I. Goldstein

Managing Director

Daniel J. Gould

SVP

Matthew L. Hart

VP

Joseph Henderson

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Leah Hendricks

Vice-President

George N. Hettich

VP

Stephanie Hiatt

SVP

Richard T. Hummell

Principal

Reid Hutchins

Managing Director

Geoffrey Jacques

ASSOCIATE

Mark Lange

VP of Business Development

Josh Liggett

Partner

Franchesca B. Lorio

Principal/Controller

Philip E. Marshall

Principal

Larry Martin

VP of Business Development

Natalia Matallana

Senior Associate

D. Tyler Mayoras

Venture Partner

Anthony Metzner

SVP

Sandra M. Moore

Managing Director/Chief Impact Officer

Justin T. Motika

VP

Scott Murphy

Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer

James O'Rourke

MD

Justin N. Obletz

Chief Financial Officer

Paul Olsen

VP

Anne Ott

SVP

Tim Perusek

Principal

Aaron Pohlmann

Senior Associate

Sarah Rajan

Senior Associate

Jim Rieker

VP OF SYNDICATION

Rachel Robards

ASSOCIATE

Joshua Rogers

Vice-President

Valentino Rovere

Vice President

Philip Ruppel

Vice President

Kelcee Sachtleben

Senior Associate

Brynn N. Sanders

VP

Cara M. Schiffman

Vice-President of Regulatory Affairs

Greg Schwarztrauber

SVP

Talmadge Singer

Managing Director

Craig Smidt

SVP

Ruth Kelso Sorrell

Principal

Angel Stuckman

VP of Business Development

Adam M. Suberi

Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

Matthew Switzer

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Thomas Titus

Vice President

W. Anthony Toups

Principal

Alexandra A. Twyman

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Ramya Varma

Vice President

Brittany Walker

Assistant VP

Benjamin Warning

Senior Associate

Carl Weatherley-White

MD

Thomas Willsey

Senior Vice President, Treasurer

Kyle Wood

Associate

Sarah Wynn

Associate

Past deals in Recycling

Missouri Cobalt

Debt Financing in 2019
Missouri Cobalt produces battery metals that support the advancement of renewable energy resources.

Danimer Scientific

Debt Financing in 2019
Danimer Scientific, based in Bainbridge, Georgia, specializes in the production of biopolymers designed to replace traditional plastics and reduce petrochemical pollution. Founded in 2004, the company manufactures a range of biodegradable and compostable products under the proprietary Nodax brand name, including additives, coatings, films, and resins suitable for various applications such as disposable flatware, packaging, and food contact items. Danimer Scientific is committed to sustainability, utilizing renewable resources and toxin-free manufacturing processes. The company also offers research and development, as well as toll manufacturing services for bio-based materials. Its products are certified for biodegradability and compostability, making them viable alternatives in efforts to mitigate plastic waste. With a production facility in Winchester, Kentucky, Danimer Scientific primarily serves markets in the United States and aims to provide solutions that return to nature rather than contribute to environmental pollution.

Danimer Scientific

Venture Round in 2019
Danimer Scientific, based in Bainbridge, Georgia, specializes in the production of biopolymers designed to replace traditional plastics and reduce petrochemical pollution. Founded in 2004, the company manufactures a range of biodegradable and compostable products under the proprietary Nodax brand name, including additives, coatings, films, and resins suitable for various applications such as disposable flatware, packaging, and food contact items. Danimer Scientific is committed to sustainability, utilizing renewable resources and toxin-free manufacturing processes. The company also offers research and development, as well as toll manufacturing services for bio-based materials. Its products are certified for biodegradability and compostability, making them viable alternatives in efforts to mitigate plastic waste. With a production facility in Winchester, Kentucky, Danimer Scientific primarily serves markets in the United States and aims to provide solutions that return to nature rather than contribute to environmental pollution.

Danimer Scientific

Debt Financing in 2019
Danimer Scientific, based in Bainbridge, Georgia, specializes in the production of biopolymers designed to replace traditional plastics and reduce petrochemical pollution. Founded in 2004, the company manufactures a range of biodegradable and compostable products under the proprietary Nodax brand name, including additives, coatings, films, and resins suitable for various applications such as disposable flatware, packaging, and food contact items. Danimer Scientific is committed to sustainability, utilizing renewable resources and toxin-free manufacturing processes. The company also offers research and development, as well as toll manufacturing services for bio-based materials. Its products are certified for biodegradability and compostability, making them viable alternatives in efforts to mitigate plastic waste. With a production facility in Winchester, Kentucky, Danimer Scientific primarily serves markets in the United States and aims to provide solutions that return to nature rather than contribute to environmental pollution.

Advanced Enviro Systems

Debt Financing in 2017
Advanced Enviro Systems LLC offers waste management and recycling solutions. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Camden, New Jersey.

Advanced Enviro Systems

Series A in 2017
Advanced Enviro Systems LLC offers waste management and recycling solutions. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Camden, New Jersey.

Atlas Paper Mills

Debt Financing in 2014
Atlas Paper Mills is the leading US manufacturer of recycled paper products produced to anticipate and exceed the environmental stewardship and value needs of our customers. Atlas Paper Mills is based in Miami, Florida and is a leader in the production of tissue paper, utilizing 100% recycled fiber and a manufacturing process free of chlorine, chlorine derivatives or any other potentially harmful chemicals. Today, Atlas produces over 36,000 tons of recycled tissue products per year and converts approximately three million cases of Eco-friendly towels and tissue for use in the Away From Home and Retail Marketplace. In addition to toilet tissue, our paper lines can convert kitchen roll towels, hard-wound roll towels and center-pull towels. Atlas Paper Mills is committed to producing, in a highly cost effective manner, tissue products which are certifiably Green. Today, all products produced by Atlas are made from 100% Recycled Wastepaper Composed of more than 20% Post-Consumer Content 100% Chlorine-Free and produced in a Chlorine-Free Manufacturing Environment Produced using a source-reducing array of waste raw material sources (including aseptic packaging containers) thereby eliminating thousands of pounds of waste from entering landfills annually Qualified for LEED Certification points Representing exceptional customer value when compared to other Certifiably Green Tissue Based Products Atlas Paper Mills was truly "Born Green TM" and through advancements in its papermaking, manufacturing and converting processes, has become an even deeper shade of Green. Atlas focuses on the four R's of Environmental Stewardship: Recycle, Reuse, Reduce and Respect for our resources and our earth. To this end, the Atlas manufacturing process and our end products are dedicated to Saving trees, Saving landfill space, Saving water consumption and Saving energy.

City Carting & Recycling

Debt Financing in 2013
City Carting & Recycling is a waste management company based in Stamford, Connecticut, that offers comprehensive residential and commercial garbage collection and recycling services in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Westchester County, New York. Established in 1976, the company serves over 11,000 customers, providing curbside trash pickup, refuse and recycling collection, and dumpster rentals. City Carting also specializes in demolition services and offers compactor services for waste and recyclables. The company operates volume reduction and recycling facilities in Stamford, Milford, Norwalk, and Somers, which are accessible to the general public, municipalities, and other haulers. Additionally, City Carting is experienced in providing services compliant with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, catering to a growing clientele. The firm is a subsidiary of Tunnel Hill Partners, L.P.

City Carting & Recycling

Venture Round in 2012
City Carting & Recycling is a waste management company based in Stamford, Connecticut, that offers comprehensive residential and commercial garbage collection and recycling services in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Westchester County, New York. Established in 1976, the company serves over 11,000 customers, providing curbside trash pickup, refuse and recycling collection, and dumpster rentals. City Carting also specializes in demolition services and offers compactor services for waste and recyclables. The company operates volume reduction and recycling facilities in Stamford, Milford, Norwalk, and Somers, which are accessible to the general public, municipalities, and other haulers. Additionally, City Carting is experienced in providing services compliant with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, catering to a growing clientele. The firm is a subsidiary of Tunnel Hill Partners, L.P.

City Carting & Recycling

Series A in 2012
City Carting & Recycling is a waste management company based in Stamford, Connecticut, that offers comprehensive residential and commercial garbage collection and recycling services in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Westchester County, New York. Established in 1976, the company serves over 11,000 customers, providing curbside trash pickup, refuse and recycling collection, and dumpster rentals. City Carting also specializes in demolition services and offers compactor services for waste and recyclables. The company operates volume reduction and recycling facilities in Stamford, Milford, Norwalk, and Somers, which are accessible to the general public, municipalities, and other haulers. Additionally, City Carting is experienced in providing services compliant with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, catering to a growing clientele. The firm is a subsidiary of Tunnel Hill Partners, L.P.

Waste Remedies

Debt Financing in 2012
Waste Remedies is a waste management consulting firm, saving clients an average of 30 - 50% off their current waste expenses. Their consultants apply years of industry knowledge to improve your bottom line. They offer a risk free program - their fees are calculated as a percentage of your actual monthly savings, so if they don't reduce your expenses, they receive no compensation. Your costs can only go down.

Atlas Paper Mills

Debt Financing in 2012
Atlas Paper Mills is the leading US manufacturer of recycled paper products produced to anticipate and exceed the environmental stewardship and value needs of our customers. Atlas Paper Mills is based in Miami, Florida and is a leader in the production of tissue paper, utilizing 100% recycled fiber and a manufacturing process free of chlorine, chlorine derivatives or any other potentially harmful chemicals. Today, Atlas produces over 36,000 tons of recycled tissue products per year and converts approximately three million cases of Eco-friendly towels and tissue for use in the Away From Home and Retail Marketplace. In addition to toilet tissue, our paper lines can convert kitchen roll towels, hard-wound roll towels and center-pull towels. Atlas Paper Mills is committed to producing, in a highly cost effective manner, tissue products which are certifiably Green. Today, all products produced by Atlas are made from 100% Recycled Wastepaper Composed of more than 20% Post-Consumer Content 100% Chlorine-Free and produced in a Chlorine-Free Manufacturing Environment Produced using a source-reducing array of waste raw material sources (including aseptic packaging containers) thereby eliminating thousands of pounds of waste from entering landfills annually Qualified for LEED Certification points Representing exceptional customer value when compared to other Certifiably Green Tissue Based Products Atlas Paper Mills was truly "Born Green TM" and through advancements in its papermaking, manufacturing and converting processes, has become an even deeper shade of Green. Atlas focuses on the four R's of Environmental Stewardship: Recycle, Reuse, Reduce and Respect for our resources and our earth. To this end, the Atlas manufacturing process and our end products are dedicated to Saving trees, Saving landfill space, Saving water consumption and Saving energy.

City Carting & Recycling

Debt Financing in 2012
City Carting & Recycling is a waste management company based in Stamford, Connecticut, that offers comprehensive residential and commercial garbage collection and recycling services in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Westchester County, New York. Established in 1976, the company serves over 11,000 customers, providing curbside trash pickup, refuse and recycling collection, and dumpster rentals. City Carting also specializes in demolition services and offers compactor services for waste and recyclables. The company operates volume reduction and recycling facilities in Stamford, Milford, Norwalk, and Somers, which are accessible to the general public, municipalities, and other haulers. Additionally, City Carting is experienced in providing services compliant with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, catering to a growing clientele. The firm is a subsidiary of Tunnel Hill Partners, L.P.

Waste Remedies

Debt Financing in 2011
Waste Remedies is a waste management consulting firm, saving clients an average of 30 - 50% off their current waste expenses. Their consultants apply years of industry knowledge to improve your bottom line. They offer a risk free program - their fees are calculated as a percentage of your actual monthly savings, so if they don't reduce your expenses, they receive no compensation. Your costs can only go down.

EnviRelation

Debt Financing in 2010
EnviRelation, LLC provides environmental services for the hospitality industry. The company offers food composting services for food-related businesses, such as office buildings, hotels, grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, food processors and distributors, churches and temples. It also provides environmental projects and programs reporting and documentation services. Additionally, EnviRelation provides emissions quantification services to track greenhouse gas emissions; and sustainability reporting services for individual properties, portfolios, brands, and corporations. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

Waste Remedies

Debt Financing in 2010
Waste Remedies is a waste management consulting firm, saving clients an average of 30 - 50% off their current waste expenses. Their consultants apply years of industry knowledge to improve your bottom line. They offer a risk free program - their fees are calculated as a percentage of your actual monthly savings, so if they don't reduce your expenses, they receive no compensation. Your costs can only go down.

Waste Remedies

Venture Round in 2008
Waste Remedies is a waste management consulting firm, saving clients an average of 30 - 50% off their current waste expenses. Their consultants apply years of industry knowledge to improve your bottom line. They offer a risk free program - their fees are calculated as a percentage of your actual monthly savings, so if they don't reduce your expenses, they receive no compensation. Your costs can only go down.

Waste Remedies

Series B in 2008
Waste Remedies is a waste management consulting firm, saving clients an average of 30 - 50% off their current waste expenses. Their consultants apply years of industry knowledge to improve your bottom line. They offer a risk free program - their fees are calculated as a percentage of your actual monthly savings, so if they don't reduce your expenses, they receive no compensation. Your costs can only go down.