Aethlon Capital: About Us / Investment Bank Minneapolis

Dedicated. Passionate. Results-Driven. Aethlon Capital is an investment bank known for delivering outstanding results for its client. We are a trusted partner of business owners who seek our guidance and expertise to successfully sell their companies so they can achieve their goals.

Overview of our Firm

Since its founding in 1996, Aethlon has had an unwavering focus on helping our clients' achieve their goals, whether that's selling their business for premium value or raising capital to fund growth. Aethlon specializes in finding buyers and investment partners for companies with $20 million to $200 million in revenue. Our clients often have market-shifting competitive advantages such as breakthrough technology, more efficient processes, unique services, or customer value propositions that tip the playing field in their favor.

Services

Industry Experience

Consumer Products

Our expertise in consumer products has accelerated the financing and development of companies focused on specialty retailing and apparel, branded consumer products, e-commerce, food and beverages, and restaurants. We have developed a robust, proprietary database of private equity funds and strategic buyers with an interest in acquiring or investing in consumer-branded companies.

Technology

We have assisted companies in technology industries, including aviation, high-tech materials, analytical instruments, semiconductor manufacturing, data imaging, data storage, information technology, communications, and software. We simplify complex, changing technologies and skillfully articulate our client's value and growth potential to prospective investors and partners.

Manufacturing

We have significant experience selling and raising capital for manufacturing companies. Our history includes equipment financing, raising growth capital, and finding buyers for manufacturing businesses. We have worked with manufacturing and distribution businesses in the consumer products, electronics, office equipment, specialty chemicals, industrial products, and recycling industries.

Transportation & Logistics

Some of our most recent M&A engagements have been within the transportation & logistics industry. We’ve developed an extensive network of buyers interested in both asset-light and asset-heavy companies. During the sale process, we highlight the value inherent in your company, so that we can attract the right buyer who will continue to be as good a steward of your business as you have been.

Aethlon's Five-Step Process

Offering Materials

Contacting Buyers

Generating Interest

Preparing Management

Soliciting Offers

Develop Persuasive Marketing Materials

Determining the best ways to describe your business from a potential buyer's point of view.
Collaborating with you to compile credible financial projections.
Highlighting opportunities to expand your business.

Identify and Contact Qualified Buyers

We begin by searching our proprietary database of potential buyers and industry-specific investors.
Identifying a roster of highly promising investors/buyers that align with your goals.
We then personally contact every party that we believe represents a potential buyer.

Foster a Competitive Bidding Environment

We present interested buyers with custom materials summarizing your business and its growth opportunities.
In follow-up discussions, we generate strong interest aimed at encouraging competitive bids.

Prepare Management for Buyer's Questions

We discuss with management key points of interest among the most-serious buyers and schedule management-buyer meetings.
We coach management in the best ways to answer questions and address concerns that buyers are likely to raise.

Solicit Indications of Interest and Final Offers

After management meetings, we help select a small number of buyers to conduct company visits and continue due diligence.
Frequently, those visits will engender an auction among interested buyers that we manage with the goal of attracting top value from bidders.
Finally, we help negotiate the most beneficial terms possible.