Partners For Growth

What is Partners For Growth?

Partners for Growth (PFG) is an investment advisory firm located in Tiburon, California, established in 2004. The firm provides specialized debt solutions to both private and public technology and life science companies around the world.

PFG adopts a tailored approach to venture capital funding, predominantly for late-stage companies, crafting capital funding strategies that align with the distinctive needs and profiles of each enterprise. Partners for Growth's diverse financing arrangements offer a range of debt solution structures and terms.

With over 35 years of experience behind them, the team at PFG is deeply embedded in the global tech and innovation ecosystems, facing complexity head-on and transcending geographical boundaries to deliver the capital that stimulates partner growth. For innovators, PFG presents itself as a partner versed in structuring flexible growth debt and asset-backed financing, propelling pivotal phases in a company's trajectory.

Their global footprint is considerable, with a team presence from San Francisco to Sydney, and Sao Paulo to Dubai, operating wherever tech communities are found burgeoning. PFG maintains strategic partnerships with cornerstone institutions like the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and IDB Invest to bolster sustainable development and innovation in emerging markets.

Additionally, PFG enjoys a more than 30-year strategic partnership with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a leading banking entity for the innovation economy.

Together, PFG and SVB deliver growth debt across various regions, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. This includes a co-managed Venture Debt Latin America Growth Lending Fund with SVB.

In strategic alliance with IFC, PFG extends the institution's reach by collaborating on fintech and tech-sector lending. With IDB Invest, PFG co-leads a joint venture providing debt capital to forward-looking tech enterprises across Latin America through a regional growth lending fund that aims to import top global investment expertise into the market.

The firm's commitment spans across a multi-industry investment thesis focusing on sectors such as Software (Web Marketplace SaaS, etc.), Other, IT (& TMT), Media, BioTech, Business Solutions, Hardware (& Manufacturing), Energy, CleanTech, Material Science, Medical Devices (& Hospital Services), Aerospace (& Defense), and Life Sciences.