Pacific Western Bank

Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with over $26 billion in assets and 74 full-service branches primarily in California, along with one in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1982, the bank specializes in relationship banking, offering tailored financial solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Its services include a range of commercial banking products such as real estate and construction loans, asset-based lending, and treasury management services. The bank's Community Banking group focuses on providing comprehensive deposit and lending services, while its National Lending group extends its offerings to established middle-market businesses across the United States. Additionally, the Venture Banking group caters specifically to entrepreneurial ventures and their investors, providing a suite of financial services designed to support innovation and growth. Pacific Western Bank serves a diverse array of industries, including aerospace, defense, food and beverage, and real estate services.

James Duncan

Managing Director

Sean Lynden

President, Venture Banking

Kevin Robinson

Vice President Venture Banking

18 past transactions

Machinery Partner

Debt Financing in 2023
Machinery Partner is a platform serving buyers and sellers of heavy equipment, providing technology-driven tools and industry expertise to simplify and accelerate the process of purchasing and owning machinery, with integrated technology for equipment search, financing, and support that helps contractors and businesses scale their operations with tailored machinery and related services.

Bloomfilter

Debt Financing in 2023
Bloomfilter develops enterprise software planning applications. It assists software executives by providing visibility into projects, aiming to enhance processes and outcomes. The platform integrates with existing tools, leveraging organizational data for advanced analytics and AI to drive real-time activities towards project success.

Extell

Debt Financing in 2022
Extell is a real estate developer of residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use properties. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York.

VideoVerse

Series B in 2022
VideoVerse is a tech company specializing in intelligent video editing tools. It offers platforms like Magnifi for real-time video highlight generation and Illusto for web-based editing, empowering both enterprise and individual content creators.

Apprentice.io

Series C in 2022
Apprentice FS, Inc. offers an industrial augmented reality platform tailored for research and development, as well as manufacturing sectors, particularly within the life sciences. Founded in 2014 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides an intelligent manufacturing execution system that incorporates artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. Its platform features modules such as Tandem, Manuals, and BioCapture, which are compatible with various smart glasses and facilitate hands-free operation in laboratory and manufacturing environments. This system allows users to record data, manage batch records, and oversee assays and procedures while ensuring critical information is readily available, thereby minimizing process deviations. Apprentice serves a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, consumer goods, and cosmetics, aiming to enhance efficiency and speed in drug production and other processes.

Extend

Series B in 2021
Extend Enterprises, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in New York, offers a peer-to-peer software as a service platform designed to facilitate the use of virtual credit cards. The company provides digital payment infrastructure that empowers financial institutions to deliver modern card experiences. Extend's offerings include a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card application, and a pioneering card tokenization service. This platform allows businesses to issue unique digital credit cards to employees, contractors, and freelancers, each with specific spending limits and expiration dates. By enhancing core financial processes, Extend enables organizations to streamline spend management while maintaining relationships with trusted banks.

Outdoorsy

Debt Financing in 2021
Outdoorsy operates a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting recreational vehicle (RV) owners with campers. It enables RV owners to monetize their assets by providing tools such as insurance, marketing resources, and access to customers. For renters, it offers a wide selection of RVs including vintage trailers, toy haulers, and Class A, B, and C motorhomes.

Civic Financial Services

Acquisition in 2021
Civic Financial Services specializes in private money lending for real estate investors. It offers a range of financing solutions, including hard money loans, fix & flip financing, cash-out refinance, and buy-to-rent financing. The company manages all operations in-house to ensure quick and efficient loan processing.

Apprentice.io

Series B in 2020
Apprentice FS, Inc. offers an industrial augmented reality platform tailored for research and development, as well as manufacturing sectors, particularly within the life sciences. Founded in 2014 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides an intelligent manufacturing execution system that incorporates artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. Its platform features modules such as Tandem, Manuals, and BioCapture, which are compatible with various smart glasses and facilitate hands-free operation in laboratory and manufacturing environments. This system allows users to record data, manage batch records, and oversee assays and procedures while ensuring critical information is readily available, thereby minimizing process deviations. Apprentice serves a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, consumer goods, and cosmetics, aiming to enhance efficiency and speed in drug production and other processes.

Headspace

Debt Financing in 2020
Headspace is a mental health technology company that provides a digital platform for mindfulness and emotional well‑being. Its mobile app offers guided meditations, sleep aids, and mindfulness programs for work, relationships, and health. The service expands beyond meditation to include clinical content, coaching, therapy, psychiatry, and AI‑driven care navigation, allowing individuals, employees, and health plan members to access personalized support. Headspace partners with organizations to deliver corporate wellness programs that improve employee productivity and well‑being.

Indigo

Series F in 2020
Indigo is an agricultural technology company that enhances crop productivity and sustainability through its proprietary plant microbiome platform. By leveraging a vast database of genomic microbe information, Indigo selects beneficial microbes to coat seeds, improving crop health, yield, and resource efficiency for farmers while addressing consumer concerns about sustainable agriculture.

Indigo

Debt Financing in 2020
Indigo is an agricultural technology company that enhances crop productivity and sustainability through its proprietary plant microbiome platform. By leveraging a vast database of genomic microbe information, Indigo selects beneficial microbes to coat seeds, improving crop health, yield, and resource efficiency for farmers while addressing consumer concerns about sustainable agriculture.

Stealth Monitoring

Debt Financing in 2019
Stealth Monitoring designs, installs, and operates security video surveillance solutions for commercial properties in the United States and Canada. It provides live and remote video monitoring, mobile monitoring, gate and access control, license plate recognition, long-range surveillance, thermal imaging, and time-lapse services, along with camera technology services and video review and analysis. The company handles system design and installation, ongoing monitoring, and health checks, supported by intelligent network video management systems. Its services target construction, multi-family residential, shopping centers and retail, automotive dealerships, offices and commercial spaces, industrial and manufacturing facilities, logistics and energy sectors, as well as scrap metal and recycling, self-storage, cannabis, and other fixed facilities. Stealth Monitoring is based in Addison, Texas, with an additional office in Mississauga, Canada.

ScienceLogic

Debt Financing in 2018
ScienceLogic provides an AI-driven hybrid IT monitoring platform for service providers, enterprises, and government organizations worldwide. Its platform offers discovery, relationship mapping, monitoring, event management, automation, analytics, asset management, and ticketing across various technologies. With strategic alliances with major tech companies, ScienceLogic supports over 50,000 global clients in optimizing IT efficiency and ensuring business continuity.

Donuts

Debt Financing in 2017
Donuts is a domain name registry offering nearly 200 top-level domains, catering to various business needs. It serves millions of registrants worldwide through partnerships with leading registrars like Go Daddy and Alibaba.

OneCause (formerly BidPal)

Debt Financing in 2016
BidPal has rebranded as OneCause. Raise more money and reach more donors with OneCause Fundraising Software and BidPal Mobile Bidding. Located in the technology hub of Indianapolis, OneCause has been recognized on the Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Companies and has received a Techpoint MIRA award for Mobile Technology Excellence & Innovation. The company’s fundraising technology includes: Mobile Bidding, Online Fundraising, Peer to Peer Fundraising, Event Software, Payment Processing, Online Ticketing, Mobile Donations, Text2Give, and Registration and Checkout software.

Windsor Circle

Debt Financing in 2016
Windsor Circle, Inc. is a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customer retention software specifically designed for the retail industry. Founded in 2011 and based in Durham, North Carolina, the company delivers an all-in-one Retention Marketing Platform that enables retailers to enhance customer loyalty and retention through data-driven marketing strategies. Windsor Circle's solutions include automated lifecycle marketing, customer segmentation, product recommendations, cart recovery, and browse abandonment initiatives. By integrating eCommerce and email platforms, the software facilitates real-time updates to customer segments based on purchase history, empowering retailers to execute targeted marketing campaigns effectively. The platform also harnesses advanced data technology and predictive analytics to drive customer engagement and maximize lifetime value.

DigitalOcean

Debt Financing in 2016
Founded in 2012, DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure for software developers. It offers compute, storage, networking products, databases, developer tools, and management tools to deploy and scale applications. Key products include Droplets (Linux-based VMs), Kubernetes, Databases, and Spaces (S3-compatible object storage). The company is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bengaluru, India.
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