Press Releases

'Smart Barcode' Innovator Pop! Technology Retains Growthink to Raise $2 Million Dollars in Series A Capital

June 16, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA --- Growthink announced today that the Firm has been retained to raise $2.0 million in Series A capital for Pop! Technology, a creator of 'active' barcode information systems used by the Food, Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Health Services sectors.

Growthink Raising $15 Million Series A Round for iControl Systems, Inc.

June 16, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA -- Growthink announced today that the Firm has been retained to raise $15 million in Series A funding for iControl Systems, Inc., a provider of data and billing consolidation software to print media retailers and publishers.

iControl software enables print media retailers and publishers to share and analyze data regarding the distribution, cost, sales and revenues generated from their newspaper and print media publications.

Growthink Partners With International Wood Company To Provide Industry With $300 Million in Carbon Offset Capacity

May 13, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA: Growthink announced today that the Firm has been named advisor of record to International Wood Company (IWC), a global forestry investment firm.

IWC, which owns two million acres of rainforest located in the Amazon, has partnered with Growthink to develop an analytical model which assesses the property’s current market value and its potential to provide carbon credits to companies seeking to reduce their greenhouse emissions.

Growthink Fields Fourteen: I-Bank's Clients Invited to World's Best Technology Conference in Arlington, TX

March 31, 2008 - Growthink announced today that it has been invited to mentor fourteen companies participating in the World’s Best Technologies Conference, (WBT), being held  March 26-27 in Arlington, TX.  

Growthink Powers DCIP's Digital Strategy

March 31, 2008 - September 2007 found Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP), charging Growthink, DCIP’s Strategic Advisory Firm, which specializes in providing capital and advisory services to the media and entertainment industry, with a formidable task: develop a business plan for DCIP, a consortium representing 14,000 of the nation’s 37,000 movie screens, to upgrade its screens so they could present Digital and 3D content. Six months later at ShoWest, the motion picture industry’s premiere business confab, DCIP announced that it was nearing $1.1 billion in financing for the conversion project.

The 9 Secrets to Pre-IPO Investing: New Growthink Report on Early Stage Investing

March 25, 2008 -

Growthink, a leading investment bank to emerging companies, announces the release of an in-depth white paper titled "The 9 Secrets of Pre-IPO Investing."

Growthink Named Advisor of Record to Brand Velocity

February 26, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA—Growthink announced that the Company has been named advisor of record to Brand Velocity, an Atlanta-based technology project auditing and consulting firm that assists clients with the administration of large software deployment projects.

Brand Velocity was founded by Jack Bergstrand and is led by a group of former senior executives from Ernst & Young, Coca-Cola, and Kimberly-Clark. Growthink will provide strategic advisory and consulting consul to Brand Velocity in the areas of Strategic Planning and Business Development.

Growthink Helps New Orleans Rebuild: Named Advisor of Record to Affordable Housing Fund Community Development Capital

February 26, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA—Growthink has been named advisor of record to Community Development Capital (CDC) of New Orleans. CDC is an affordable housing loan fund that provides financing to non-profit and for-profit organizations engaged in the construction of affordable housing and the rehabilitation of the City’s housing stock that was damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Growthink is advising CDC on the Fund’s Strategic Planning and Capital Acquisition initiatives.

Growthink Named Advisor of Record to Five New Companies

February 13, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA— Growthink announced that the Company has been named advisor of record to five emerging companies representing innovative trends within the Project Management, Hospitality, Social Networking, Food and Beverage sectors:

Brand Velocity: An accelerated technology project audit, consulting and implementation firm, based in Atlanta, GA that is founded by former C-level executives of the Coca-Cola Company.

Growthink Appoints Media / New Media Executive Lee Muhl as Managing Partner

February 5, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA-Growthink announced today that Lee Muhl, a specialist in media/new media structure and financing, has been appointed a Managing Partner of the Company.

"Lee's experience as a new media executive and entertainment attorney, as well as his success in creating sophisticated financial models for many innovative companies makes him the ideal person to nurture Growthink's media advisory practice," said Jay Turo, Growthink's CEO and Managing Director.