Investment Banking Philosophy
Lantern Capital Advisors
Investment Banking Alternative
Philosophy
We work on a consulting rather than brokerage basis. We have no bias towards the amount or type of financing selected.
Fast • Trusted • Cost Effective
Investment Banking Alternative
As an alternative to using an investment banker to raise capital, our ultimate goal is to help our clients understand the alternative and secure the best capital solution for their needs.
Typically this means identifying the capital source or structure that offers the lowest-cost and maximum liquidity while minimizing ownership dilution and personal financial risk.
We specialize in writing comprehensive business plans intended to generate significant value for both owners and investors. We are expert advisors to developing business plans and successfully raising growth capital for entrepreneurs and businesses.
Lantern Capital Advisors believes that our clients should not only understand their business plan and growth strategy, but should also have the financial capacity to achieve it. Using our unique “out of the box” planning process, we offer insight based on our prior experience helping companies raise capital.
We help our clients quickly develop growth strategies and identify financing methods that can have a substantial positive impact on the future value of the business. Our experience allows us to be creative, fast and cost-efficient…and successful. We consult with our clients as an ongoing financial advisor in order to realize the goals defined in the business plan long after the capital event has occurred.
How We Raise Capital
We accesses our large network of financing sources in order to help our clients identify and select from a wide variety and competitive funding sources and financing solutions, including:
Commercial Banks
Specialty Lenders
Vendor/Lease Financiers
Private Equity Firms
Venture Capital Firms
Capital Raising Process
Lantern Capital Advisors uses a proprietary planning process to help companies quickly “Explore What If” then raise capital to make it happen. Our capital raising process delivers consistent result and offers clients a unique combination of experience, objectivity, and value.
Investment Banking Alternative
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Lantern Capital Advisors succeeds in writing business plans and raising growth capital for entrepreneurs and businesses. We help companies quickly understand their Company’s future value and develop a business plan to make that happen.
Our clients are fast growing businesses held back by limited capital. By engaging our services to raise capital for their business, Lantern Capital Advisors helps our clients determine their own capital requirements based on the funding requirements of the business plan and growth strategy.
Lantern Capital Advisors secures financing and raises capital for our clients from a broad range of private and public financial institutions. We help companies find and negotiate business financing and raise capital that minimizes dilution and personal financial liability to the company owners. We also assist our clients in buying out company shareholders in order to further increase the future value.
FAST
We took our financial and management consulting experience over hundreds of engagements, and created a unique engagement process that is superior to all others in terms of time, cost, communication, and client expectations. Clients always have a clear understanding of where they are in the process, a basis for making good financial decisions, and an ability to start or stop the process with no on-going obligations. This gives our clients peace of mind, control, and unmatched value relative to any other advisor or consultant.
Trusted
All we do is help growing private companies. We know their problems, and their alternatives, and have referenced clients to prove it. Further, unlike investment funds, banks, or investment bankers, Lantern is truly independent. Our compensation is hourly based. We take no finder’s fees from institutions, and do not seek or accept any equity (or warrant) compensation from our clients. Our goal is simply to serve the best interests of our clients – regardless of the size, amount, or type of financing sought.
Cost Effective
As fee based consultants, our hourly rates are comparable to a middle market consulting, accounting, or law firm. Then by combining those rates with our unique engagement process, we are able to get clients market feedback on their financing capabilities extremely fast which minimizes the client’s risk and costs (both in terms of their time and cash expenditures).