Investments

Bouncyhouse.com is a Seattle-based company that rents party equipment for backyard parties, churches and schools. It is a seasonal business with the bulk of revenues seen in the summer months. Bouncyhouse’s owner, Dan Todd, was working on a national wide lead generation model that needed additional capital to help the company’s growth. Lighter Capital worked with Dan to structure a RevenueLoan that treated the existing business as a “backstop,” but gave him some fuel to pursue the higher-growth, higher-margin lines of business.

Jive Communications is a premier Hosted VoIP and cloud services provider to organizations across the U.S. Its virtual PBX platform offers a wide range of features including music on hold, extension dialing, unified messaging and online account management to its customers throughout the United States. Jive also provides dial tone, long-distance, toll-free, and international calling services.

Laloo’s Goat Milk Ice Cream is the most delicious, and healthiest ice cream we’ve ever had, and you should try it too – Cajeta de Leche is my favorite. Laloo’s is devoted to the ideals of slow food, and works with small farmers to create a delicious, healthy and sustainable product.

Western Sky Marketing is the exclusive distributor in the Western U.S. for StyleNet. StyleNet provides low-cost easy-to-use StyleNet websites for beauty salons and professionals on a monthly subscription basis.

Tomato Battle produces and promotes festival-style tomato fight events throughout the United States. Yes, people throwing tomatoes at each other. Lighter Capital worked with the company to fund operations and sales and marketing efforts leading up to an aggressive national expansion plan in 2012. Using this funding, the Tomato Battle events have been “a giant mess” – and that’s a good thing!

Valant Medical Solutions is a leading developer of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Valant’s EMR services help psychiatrists and other mental health professionals streamline their administrative burden by shifting things like patient records, prescribing, and billing to Web-based software.

Cooler Planet is dedicated to improving the environment and helping consumers and business owners reduce their contribution to global climate change and reliance on fossil fuels. They provide all the tools, education and resources for anyone to reduce the carbon footprint of their home, business, and life! Cooler Planet approached us with a unique opportunity and we were excited to partner with the team as they grow and spread their mission, especially as gas hits $4.50 here in Seattle

Yoga Download is ‘yoga for how you really live’. Yoga Download offers on-demand yoga classes at the click of a mouse: there is just one simple step – download the class of your choice, then “BAM”, your personal yoga instructor and class is in the palm of your hand. YDL offers convenience,  variety, quality, and an affordable and flexible pricing structure. With hundreds of classes searchable by difficulty, style and length, there’s a class for everyone… playable anywhere!

Red Rover’s mission is to increase global human capital. Everyday they are improving the lives of people in their companies and communities. The Company’s software and processes increase motivation, engagement, and education mutually throughout organizations by empowering all stakeholders to be teachers. Check out this customer testimonial from Laurie Ledford, CHRO for Marsh, Inc.

HireAHelper is on a mission to improve the moving services and day labor industry and we’re ready to move with them! HireAHelper’s customer base was growing fast and Mike Glanz, CEO, needed to hire developers to expand the services listed on the company’s site. As the company expanded, we were able to fund HireAHelper with a RevenueLoan so they could focus on growing quickly to meet the demand they’d seen, from both service providers and consumers.

BinaryWave  specializes in providing managed services for the support, administration and optimization of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Clients across a wide range of industries, from healthcare to government, engineering, construction, energy, nutrition, real estate and technology rely upon BinaryWave to manage, monitor, maintain and optimize their SharePoint ecosystems. Our consultants, technicians, engineers and architects are the best and brightest in the industry.


thedatabank's web-based nonprofit software is uniquely designed to help each of our clients develop and sustain long-term relationships with their supporters. By providing a database driven suite of integrated software modules, thedatabank can create an affordable, effective relationship management and communications system specific to your organization's needs.


HarborCloud manages the data, software updates and upgrades, and equipment, as well as provides first level technical support to our clients. Our solutions provide scalability, flexibility, and simplicity that are turnkey solutions, allowing our customers to leverage our infrastructure and cut their costs.