Saints' activities as a Merchant Venture Capital firm include offering mergers & acquisitions, capital raising and corporate restructuring to our portfolio companies and to non-affiliated technology and healthcare firms. The Advisors team is made up of senior professionals with deep transaction expertise who have completed over $5 billion in mergers & acquisitions and raised over $8 billion in capital. Our extensive network of venture and corporate contacts makes Saints the preferred investment bank for CEOs interested in working with experienced professionals, who possess deep domain expertise.

Why Saints?

The senior executives of emerging growth companies need more than capital and board-level advice. Through Saints they gain access to seasoned professionals with extensive deal, industry and operating experience. Furthermore, as professional investors, we see both sides of the equation, which provides Saints a unique perspective giving advice to emerging growth companies. Other characteristics that make working with a Merchant Venture Capital firm are:

• Experience: Saints professionals have worked at leading large and small investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, CSFB, Prudential, Dean Witter, Volpe Brown Whelan, Wheat First and others. We offer our clients direct access to senior bankers who are responsible for all aspects of closing transactions and who don't disappear after the first meeting. In addition, our bankers also have several years of corporate operating experience, unlike typical investment bankers. Our experience working day-to-day at both large and emerging growth companies gives us a unique perspective as to how deals get done
  

• Smaller Deal Focus: Saints attempts to fill a market need focusing on deals primarily below $100 million. 90% of all technology and healthcare mergers and acquisitions are under $100 million - transactions that traditional investment banks either won't or can't efficiently manage, given their often exceedingly complex structure. Yet these transactions often form the cornerstones of technology firms' successes.
  

• Industry and Investor Contacts: Saints maintains a powerful database with over 3,000 corporate contacts and nearly 9,000 individual contacts. Our professionals have extensive contacts at venture capital firms throughout the United States and Europe. We are invested along side the world's leading venture investors and have developed close personal relationships with partners at these firms