Over 50 Years Combined Experience


Our Managing Directors have significant and diversified experience, mainly as direct lenders and investors at Debt Funds/ Traditional Banks, ABL/ Structured Finance Companies, and Hedge Funds.

VENTURE FUNDS/BANKS

Pioneers in the venture debt space, starting in the mid- to late- nineties, providing creative financing solutions to sponsor and non-sponsor backed technology and life science companies. 

  • Launched or helped launch four different venture lending platforms that became significant and successful capital providers to the growing venture debt industry.

  • Established life science and technology initiatives, determined lending credit and risk criteria/parameters and recruited investment team for two of the prior platforms. 

  • Combined, the MDs helped secure more than $500 million of committed capital. Originated, managed, and advised more than 250 investments representing more than $650 million of capital deployed, while generating positive rates of return for stakeholders.


ABL/STRUCTURED FINANCE/HEDGE FUNDS/BANKS

  • Provided at the VP to MD level, opportunistic loans backed by traditional and non-traditional assets, leveraged leases and loans (asset backed), and contract monetizations. Institutions included BTM Capital, and Sheridan and Anchorlight Credit Opportunity Funds.

  • Worked for well- known banks, including ABN AMRO, Fleet, TD Bank, and HSBC



TURNAROUND/RESTRUCTURING/LIQUIDATION
Performed restructurings, refinancings, and liquidations for Comdisco and Sherwood Partners​

Experience

over 50 years of combined experience in venture debt,

abl/Structured finance, private lending and middle market

Right Side Ventures

 

THE RSV Team











JP Marchette, Founder & Managing Director

JP brings nearly 20 years experience providing creative financing solutions to sponsor backed technology and life science companies. During his career as a venture lender, JP helped successfully launch three different venture lending platforms; all of which had become market leaders. As a result of these platforms, JP has originated, managed and advised more than 150 investments’ representing more than $500 million of assets. As a portfolio manager, JP has successfully managed nearly 50 restructurings, refinancings, recapitalizations and asset transfers.

JP has financing many of the leading privately held, emerging growth, technology and life science companies across all stages of development, with an emphasis on enterprise software, communications equipment, network, data storage and internet infrastructure and applications. Past investments include comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), Broadsoft (NASDAQ: BSFT), Gomez (acquired by CA) White Amber (acquired by Taleo), Cadent (acquired by Arris), Compete (acquired by TNS/WPP), Octave Communications (acquired by Voyant), Flarion Technologies (acquired by Qualcomm), Brainshark, Sportvision, Reflexis Software, Great Call, TradeKing, among many others.