Silicon Valley Bank

Silicon Valley Bank is a commercial bank headquartered in Santa Clara, California, specializing in providing diversified financial services to companies in technology, life sciences, cleantech, venture capital, private equity, and premium wine sectors. Established in 1983, it offers a range of services including debt financing, treasury management, corporate investment, and international banking. The bank operates through 27 offices in the United States and has an international presence with seven operations worldwide. By leveraging its industry expertise and global connections, Silicon Valley Bank aims to enhance the success potential of its clients, which include both emerging growth and established businesses. Additionally, its UK branch, founded in 2010, facilitates cross-border transactions and supports clients in meeting their strategic needs. The bank is recognized for its commitment to service excellence and innovation within the financial sector.

Trefor Bacon

Managing Director

Greg Becker

CEO

Julie Betts

Managing Director

Gerald Brady

Managing Director, SVB Network

Samantha Colletti

Director

Peter Freyer

Managing Director of National Healthcare Sponsor Finance and Life Sciences

Dennis Grunt

Director

Nicole Hawkey

Director

Stephen Lowery

Managing Director

Scott McCarty

Director - Life Sciences

Andrew Oddo

Managing Director, Startup Banking

Eric Otterson

Managing Director

Robert Parker

Director

Sameer Paul

Director

Priya Rajan

Managing Director - India and Middle East and North Africa

Laura Scott

Managing Director

Ben Tickler

Managing Director - Enterprise Software

Past deals in Colorado

Pivot Energy

Debt Financing in 2023
Pivot Energy is a national solar provider focused on developing, financing, building, and managing solar and storage energy projects. The company aims to accelerate the transition to cleaner and more decentralized power generation through its community and commercial solar initiatives. It offers a distributed energy platform that supports a wide range of stakeholders, including retail customers, project developers, system operators, utilities, and financiers. By providing comprehensive services and software, Pivot Energy facilitates the entire commercial solar ecosystem, enabling effective project development and management across the country.

Guild

Series F in 2022
Guild Education, Inc. is an educational technology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company provides a lifelong learning platform designed for working adults, offering a range of online courses, workshops, and educational programs. These include bachelor’s and master’s degrees, high school diplomas, certificate programs, and language learning opportunities. Guild Education supports its users throughout their educational journey by utilizing a technology platform that facilitates discovery and learning, as well as a tech-enabled student advising model to enhance the overall experience. The company aims to empower adults to advance their education and career paths effectively.

Pivot Energy

Debt Financing in 2022
Pivot Energy is a national solar provider focused on developing, financing, building, and managing solar and storage energy projects. The company aims to accelerate the transition to cleaner and more decentralized power generation through its community and commercial solar initiatives. It offers a distributed energy platform that supports a wide range of stakeholders, including retail customers, project developers, system operators, utilities, and financiers. By providing comprehensive services and software, Pivot Energy facilitates the entire commercial solar ecosystem, enabling effective project development and management across the country.

Matillion

Series D in 2021
Matillion Ltd. specializes in cloud data integration software that enables businesses to effectively manage and utilize their data. The company provides various solutions, including Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift and Snowflake, which facilitate the extraction, loading, and transformation of data within cloud data warehouses. Additionally, Matillion Data Loader helps organizations load data from various sources into their cloud environments, while Matillion Business Intelligence offers self-service reporting and analytics capabilities. The company's offerings are designed to accelerate innovation and enhance decision-making for its clients, which include notable companies such as GE, Accenture, and Siemens. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom, Matillion also has offices in New York City, Denver, and Seattle, serving a diverse customer base across more than 40 countries.

Quantum Metric

Debt Financing in 2020
Quantum Metric, Inc. develops a digital intelligence platform that leverages machine learning to provide insights into user behavior across digital interfaces. The platform offers comprehensive analytics that combine statistical analysis and machine intelligence to identify website performance issues, user struggles, and system errors. It automatically detects and alerts users to problems such as underperforming page layouts, performance issues, and network conditions. Additionally, Quantum Metric integrates session replay, customer feedback, and other data sources to enhance its analytics capabilities, including anomaly detection and funnel analysis to pinpoint issues affecting conversion rates. The platform is designed to help organizations in various sectors, including e-commerce, finance, travel, telecommunications, and media, by identifying customer friction and quantifying the financial impact of digital performance. Founded in 2011 and based in Monument, Colorado, Quantum Metric targets Fortune 500 companies to improve their digital experiences and optimize operational efficiency.

Welltok

Series E in 2020
Welltok is a data-driven enterprise SaaS company based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in consumer activation within the healthcare sector. Founded in 2009, Welltok provides a health optimization platform that connects health plans, employers, providers, and public entities with consumers by offering personalized guidance and incentives for health improvement. The platform utilizes a large consumer database and machine learning to enhance audience engagement in healthy activities. By facilitating targeted actions, Welltok enables organizations to foster meaningful connections with individuals, encouraging them to take purposeful steps towards optimizing their health and wellbeing.

AES Distributed Energy

Debt Financing in 2020
The AES Corporation (AES), a Fortune 200 global power company, provides affordable, sustainable energy to 18 countries through a diverse portfolio of distribution businesses and 36 GW of generation capacity, including over 8 GW of renewables. Enabled by the acquisition of Main Street Power Company in February 2015, and leveraging AES’ expertise, relationships and scale, they deliver our clients the benefits of sustainable energy powered by resilient, turnkey solutions that we finance, own and operate. Currently available in the US, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, AES brings reliable and cost-effective distributed energy systems to schools, municipalities, utilities, residences, and commercial and industrial clients. We have over 65 MW of distributed generation solar PV projects in operation across North America, and over 200 MW in development in the Western Hemisphere.

Rimilia

Venture Round in 2020
Rimilia creates software finance people love by enabling tight integration between the front and back office. Rimilia provides companies around the globe increased revenue per customer, clearer information and better control over cash flow. As a global solution, Rimilia works with any currency, any bank, any ERP, in any country and language. Rimilia has offices located in Bromsgrove and London in the UK, Denver, Colorado in the US, and Toronto in Canada.

Guild

Series D in 2019
Guild Education, Inc. is an educational technology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company provides a lifelong learning platform designed for working adults, offering a range of online courses, workshops, and educational programs. These include bachelor’s and master’s degrees, high school diplomas, certificate programs, and language learning opportunities. Guild Education supports its users throughout their educational journey by utilizing a technology platform that facilitates discovery and learning, as well as a tech-enabled student advising model to enhance the overall experience. The company aims to empower adults to advance their education and career paths effectively.

Recurly

Series C in 2019
Recurly, Inc. specializes in providing subscription management and billing solutions designed to optimize revenue growth for businesses across various industries, including digital media, streaming, publishing, SaaS, and consumer goods. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Boulder and New Orleans, the company offers a comprehensive platform that automates recurring billing processes, enhances payment acceptance, and reduces subscriber churn through effective card recycling strategies. Recurly's services allow businesses to quickly implement subscription billing systems, manage customer-related billing issues effortlessly, and gain actionable insights into their operations. As a level 1 PCI compliant service provider, Recurly also helps clients minimize costs and obligations associated with payment security. By streamlining these functions, Recurly enables businesses to focus on growth and improve their overall subscriber economics.

Guild

Series C in 2018
Guild Education, Inc. is an educational technology company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company provides a lifelong learning platform designed for working adults, offering a range of online courses, workshops, and educational programs. These include bachelor’s and master’s degrees, high school diplomas, certificate programs, and language learning opportunities. Guild Education supports its users throughout their educational journey by utilizing a technology platform that facilitates discovery and learning, as well as a tech-enabled student advising model to enhance the overall experience. The company aims to empower adults to advance their education and career paths effectively.

Welltok

Debt Financing in 2016
Welltok is a data-driven enterprise SaaS company based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in consumer activation within the healthcare sector. Founded in 2009, Welltok provides a health optimization platform that connects health plans, employers, providers, and public entities with consumers by offering personalized guidance and incentives for health improvement. The platform utilizes a large consumer database and machine learning to enhance audience engagement in healthy activities. By facilitating targeted actions, Welltok enables organizations to foster meaningful connections with individuals, encouraging them to take purposeful steps towards optimizing their health and wellbeing.

Spectranetics

Post in 2015
Spectranetics Corporation specializes in the development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of single-use medical devices designed for minimally invasive procedures in cardiovascular health. The company’s product offerings include various devices for vascular intervention, such as laser and aspiration catheters, scoring balloon catheters, and drug-coated balloon catheters, aimed at addressing arterial blockages in the legs and heart. Additionally, Spectranetics provides advanced lead management solutions, including excimer laser sheaths and associated accessories for the removal of pacemaker and defibrillator leads. The Stellarex DCB platform is also part of their portfolio, specifically targeting peripheral arterial disease. Spectranetics sells its products directly and through distributors across multiple global regions, focusing on improving outcomes in challenging cardiovascular cases. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, the company is committed to innovation in medical technology to enhance the quality of care for patients undergoing cardiovascular procedures. As of August 2017, it operates as a subsidiary of Philips Holding USA Inc.

tectonic

Debt Financing in 2015
Tectonic is a technology and business services firm that specializes in providing integrated solutions for mid-sized to enterprise customers. With headquarters in Denver and additional offices in Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles, the company focuses on insight2action automation in the cloud. Tectonic assists clients in modernizing their operations through big data, analytics, customer relationship management, and marketing automation. By making customer data actionable, Tectonic enables organizations to predict and influence customer behavior, ultimately facilitating comprehensive business transformation in both digital and physical environments.

Bluprint

Series D in 2014
Bluprint helps people channel their creativity through expert-led online classes and inspiring original series. Its subscription video-on-demand allows makers around the world to pursue their passions anytime, anywhere.

SolidFire

Series D in 2014
SolidFire, LLC specializes in primary storage systems tailored for cloud service providers globally. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the company offers a scale-out all-flash storage platform designed to meet the performance needs of various application workloads, including cloud orchestration, database workloads, and virtual desktop infrastructure. SolidFire's architecture allows service providers to deliver multi-tenant cloud services with volume-level Quality of Service (QoS) controls, ensuring reliable storage performance across thousands of applications within a shared environment. The company operates internationally, with locations in Australia, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. Since February 2016, SolidFire has been a subsidiary of NetApp, Inc.

Altitude Digital

Debt Financing in 2014
Altitude Digital is a video advertising technology company based in Denver, Colorado, with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. The company operates the Altitude ARENA® platform, which facilitates seamless connections between publishers and advertisers through programmatic technology. This platform provides publishers with comprehensive control over their mobile and desktop video content, offering real-time actionable insights and transparent pricing. By integrating proprietary data and insights from third-party sources, Altitude ARENA® helps publishers understand inventory quality and performance, enabling them to optimize their offerings and maximize revenue. The focus on innovative technology enhances user experience while improving overall performance for advertisers.

Ping Identity

Series F in 2013
Ping Identity Corporation specializes in providing intelligent identity solutions for enterprises globally. Its Ping Intelligent Identity platform enables secure access to various applications, including cloud, mobile, Software-as-a-Service, and on-premises solutions. The platform features capabilities such as secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, application security controls, unified profile directories, and data governance for identity data access. Additionally, it incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning for enhanced API security. The company's clientele includes prominent organizations across multiple sectors, such as Fortune 100 companies, U.S. banks, biopharmaceutical firms, healthcare plans, and retailers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Ping Identity has evolved to promote Zero Trust security frameworks and personalized user experiences.

Altitude Digital

Series A in 2013
Altitude Digital is a video advertising technology company based in Denver, Colorado, with additional offices in New York and San Francisco. The company operates the Altitude ARENA® platform, which facilitates seamless connections between publishers and advertisers through programmatic technology. This platform provides publishers with comprehensive control over their mobile and desktop video content, offering real-time actionable insights and transparent pricing. By integrating proprietary data and insights from third-party sources, Altitude ARENA® helps publishers understand inventory quality and performance, enabling them to optimize their offerings and maximize revenue. The focus on innovative technology enhances user experience while improving overall performance for advertisers.

Albeo Technologies

Debt Financing in 2012
Albeo Technologies is the first company to bring the advantages of energy efficient LED Lighting to the industrial and commercial marketplace with LED Lighting solutions created specifically for industrial and commercial buildings. As a leader in Commercial and Industrial LED lighting research and development, Albeo is the first choice for discerning companies that recognize the difference that quality LED lighting makes in a variety of professional environments.

Techstars

Venture Round in 2011
Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, is a startup accelerator that focuses on incubating and investing in early-stage technology companies across various sectors, particularly fintech, retail technology, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and Internet of Things. The organization operates several accelerator programs worldwide, including specialized initiatives like Techstars Music and Techstars Retail Accelerator, which support startups in the music industry and retail sector, respectively. Each program typically lasts three months and selects ten companies to receive funding and mentorship, often providing investments ranging from $0.01 million to $0.12 million in exchange for equity. Techstars also emphasizes a global reach, investing in companies from diverse regions, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm does not seek board representation or investor rights in its portfolio companies, preferring to take minority stakes. Through its extensive network, Techstars connects entrepreneurs with mentors, investors, and corporate partners to foster growth and innovation in the startup ecosystem.

Ping Identity

Series D in 2011
Ping Identity Corporation specializes in providing intelligent identity solutions for enterprises globally. Its Ping Intelligent Identity platform enables secure access to various applications, including cloud, mobile, Software-as-a-Service, and on-premises solutions. The platform features capabilities such as secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, application security controls, unified profile directories, and data governance for identity data access. Additionally, it incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning for enhanced API security. The company's clientele includes prominent organizations across multiple sectors, such as Fortune 100 companies, U.S. banks, biopharmaceutical firms, healthcare plans, and retailers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Ping Identity has evolved to promote Zero Trust security frameworks and personalized user experiences.

Myogen

Series D in 2002
Myogen is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders. They believe that our advanced understanding of the biology of cardiovascular disease combined with their clinical development expertise in cardiovascular therapeutics provide us with the capability to discover novel therapies, as well as identify, license or acquire products that address serious, debilitating cardiovascular disorders that are not adequately treated with existing therapies.
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