Martinson Ventures

Martinson Ventures is a private investor that puts money into small software and information businesses. It says it has funded more than fifty companies, and it looks mainly at Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and surrounding states.

It also acts as an adviser, helping owners with strategy, sales routes and hiring.

What Martinson Ventures offers

• Growth capital: funding to hire sales staff, build account management, expand geographically and develop new products.
• Founder liquidity and re-capitalisation: money that lets founders, investors and managers take value out, or reduce existing debt.
• Advice and board leadership: guidance on strategy and team building, and help organising a board of directors.
• Introductions: links to sources of equity, debt, leasing and grants, plus referrals of managers, developers and sales staff.
• Other deal types: secondary purchases of private company shares, purchases of stakes in venture and private equity funds, and turnaround situations including bankruptcies.

Customers and markets

The firm favours profitable companies with proprietary software and information products. Its record covers education technology, healthcare IT, marketing software and financial technology.

Key facts

• Portfolio: more than fifty companies funded
• Target region: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and surrounding states
• Company structures considered: LLC and C corporation