Salem Partners

Founded in 1997, Salem Partners is a prominent Los Angeles-based financial services firm offering investment banking and wealth management services. Its investment banking division specializes in mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory services, valuations, fairness opinions, and capital raisings across various sectors including media, entertainment, healthcare, life sciences, and real estate.

John Dyett

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Brendan Houlihan

Managing Director

Stephen Prough

Co-Founder and Managing Director

16 past transactions

Fabric

Series B in 2022
Fabric is a cloud platform that enables customers to manage editorial, technical, and other metadata for television shows, movies, documentaries, games, and other media. With Fabric, you can easily connect your catalogue to new platforms, transform internal data processes, and deliver dramatically improved viewer and user experiences.

Form Bio

Series A in 2022
Form Bio is a biotechnology company specializing in AI-powered tools for accelerating adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy development. Its platform offers predictive modeling, automated candidate optimization, and virtual biomanufacturing, serving researchers across various fields including lab directors, biotech, pharma, and academia.

OncoNano Medicine

Convertible Note in 2021
OncoNano Medicine develops nanotechnology-based cancer imaging and therapeutic solutions that exploit the acidic tumor microenvironment. The company advances pH-activated compounds and ultra pH-sensitive polymeric micelle systems to localize activity, enable fluorescence-guided surgery, and improve delivery and activation of cancer therapies with reduced side effects. Its ONM-100 program targets tumor acidosis to differentiate cancer tissue from healthy tissue during surgical procedures and to enhance treatment precision.

Fabric

Series A in 2021
Fabric is a cloud platform that enables customers to manage editorial, technical, and other metadata for television shows, movies, documentaries, games, and other media. With Fabric, you can easily connect your catalogue to new platforms, transform internal data processes, and deliver dramatically improved viewer and user experiences.

Levels Beyond

Debt Financing in 2019
Levels Beyond, Inc. is a software company based in Denver, Colorado, specializing in media management and workflow solutions. The company develops a content inventory platform known as Reach Engine, which facilitates the organization, production, and sharing of digital media for production teams and media manufacturers. This platform enables users to create, curate, and distribute video content efficiently across various tools while integrating cloud services to enhance media workflows. Levels Beyond also offers a content management system that supports publishing across multiple platforms, catering to sectors such as media and entertainment, sports and live events, marketing, and new media distribution. Founded in 2000, the company has established a strategic partnership with Verizon Digital Media Services to further enhance its offerings.

OncoNano Medicine

Series A in 2019
OncoNano Medicine develops nanotechnology-based cancer imaging and therapeutic solutions that exploit the acidic tumor microenvironment. The company advances pH-activated compounds and ultra pH-sensitive polymeric micelle systems to localize activity, enable fluorescence-guided surgery, and improve delivery and activation of cancer therapies with reduced side effects. Its ONM-100 program targets tumor acidosis to differentiate cancer tissue from healthy tissue during surgical procedures and to enhance treatment precision.

Rightsline

Series D in 2019
Rightsline is a global SaaS platform specializing in rights and royalties management for intellectual property owners. It serves various industries, providing tools for finance, legal, operations, and strategy teams to manage contracts, track royalties, and identify sales opportunities across the IP lifecycle.

Lucid Sight

Series B in 2019
Lucid Sight, Inc. is a computer software company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the design and development of virtual reality games and software applications. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating immersive entertainment experiences using blockchain, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies. Lucid Sight develops multiplayer adventure and sports games, aiming to provide engaging interfaces for gamers. Additionally, the company offers tools and plug-ins for virtual reality developers and innovative monetization and marketing platforms for brands and game developers. Through its catalog, Lucid Sight serves a diverse clientele, including developers and advertisers, by leveraging emerging technologies to enhance gaming and marketing experiences.

Rightsline

Series B in 2019
Rightsline is a global SaaS platform specializing in rights and royalties management for intellectual property owners. It serves various industries, providing tools for finance, legal, operations, and strategy teams to manage contracts, track royalties, and identify sales opportunities across the IP lifecycle.

AsclepiX Therapeutics

Convertible Note in 2018
AsclepiX Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative treatments for retinal diseases and certain cancers. The company specializes in designing short biomimetic peptides that target angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, utilizing advanced bioinformatics and systems biology approaches. Its lead product candidates, including AXT107, AXT201, AXT301, and AXT501, are aimed at addressing conditions such as diabetic macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, and macular edema from retinal vein occlusion, all of which are significant causes of blindness in the western world. Additionally, AXT201, AXT301, and AXT501 are in early development stages for treating various solid tumors. AsclepiX Therapeutics employs cutting-edge biomaterials and drug delivery systems, including biodegradable nano and microparticles, to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of its peptide-based treatments. Incorporated in 2011 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the company is leveraging its platform technology to advance solutions in both ophthalmology and oncology.

OncoNano Medicine

Series A in 2018
OncoNano Medicine develops nanotechnology-based cancer imaging and therapeutic solutions that exploit the acidic tumor microenvironment. The company advances pH-activated compounds and ultra pH-sensitive polymeric micelle systems to localize activity, enable fluorescence-guided surgery, and improve delivery and activation of cancer therapies with reduced side effects. Its ONM-100 program targets tumor acidosis to differentiate cancer tissue from healthy tissue during surgical procedures and to enhance treatment precision.

Sebacia

Series D in 2017
Sebacia is a medical device company specializing in light-based therapies for dermatological conditions. It focuses on developing innovative treatments for acne, aiming to provide alternatives to daily topical and systemic drugs.

Lucid Sight

Series A in 2016
Lucid Sight, Inc. is a computer software company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the design and development of virtual reality games and software applications. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating immersive entertainment experiences using blockchain, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies. Lucid Sight develops multiplayer adventure and sports games, aiming to provide engaging interfaces for gamers. Additionally, the company offers tools and plug-ins for virtual reality developers and innovative monetization and marketing platforms for brands and game developers. Through its catalog, Lucid Sight serves a diverse clientele, including developers and advertisers, by leveraging emerging technologies to enhance gaming and marketing experiences.

Femasys

Series B in 2015
Femasys is a biomedical company focused on transforming women's health by developing minimally invasive, non-surgical products for use in physicians' offices. Headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, it concentrates on reproductive health solutions including FemVue, an ultrasound-based fallopian tube assessment device marketed in the United States as its main commercial priority, along with development of FemBloc, a non-surgical method for permanent birth control, and FemaSeed, a directed sperm delivery system for infertility treatment. The portfolio also includes FemCerv, a tissue sampler for cervical cancer diagnosis, and an office-based tissue sampling platform intended to complement its women's health products. The company aims to address underserved areas and improve patient care and health economics through minimally invasive, office-based diagnostics and therapies.

ZS Pharma

Series D in 2014
ZS Pharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Coppell, Texas, specializing in the development and commercialization of non-absorbed drugs aimed at treating renal, cardiovascular, liver, and metabolic diseases. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating highly selective ion-trap therapies using its proprietary zirconium silicate technology, which allows for the reduction of toxic electrolyte levels while maintaining overall electrolyte balance. Its lead product, ZS-9, is an insoluble, non-absorbed zirconium silicate currently in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of hyperkalemia, a serious condition characterized by elevated potassium levels in the blood, often affecting patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, or heart failure. As of December 2015, ZS Pharma operates as a subsidiary of Zeneca, Inc.

ZS Pharma

Series C in 2012
ZS Pharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company based in Coppell, Texas, specializing in the development and commercialization of non-absorbed drugs aimed at treating renal, cardiovascular, liver, and metabolic diseases. Founded in 2008, the company focuses on creating highly selective ion-trap therapies using its proprietary zirconium silicate technology, which allows for the reduction of toxic electrolyte levels while maintaining overall electrolyte balance. Its lead product, ZS-9, is an insoluble, non-absorbed zirconium silicate currently in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of hyperkalemia, a serious condition characterized by elevated potassium levels in the blood, often affecting patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, or heart failure. As of December 2015, ZS Pharma operates as a subsidiary of Zeneca, Inc.
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