~TIMIA’s Second US Transaction Continues to Chart U.S. Expansion~
VANCOUVER, BC – January 21, 2019 – TIMIA Capital Corporation (“TIMIA” or the “Company”) (TSX-V:TCA) announced that it has entered into a US$3 million investment facility for Sausalito, California-based software company, Karbon Inc. (“Karbon”). The financing facility includes an initial disbursement of US$1,000,000, which was advanced today, and a further US$2,000,000 to be disbursed upon certain milestones being met over the term of the agreement.
“This is great opportunity for us to support a growing software company like Karbon,” said Greg Smith, CIO of TIMIA. “Our goal is to help Karbon drive further revenue growth with funding to increase their marketing and sales activities.”
“We felt TIMIA’s revenue-based financing was the best fit for our needs,” said Stuart McLeod, CEO of Karbon. “We like the flexibility of drawing on TIMIA’s capital in stages as we chart our growth. When we looked at our capital requirements for 2019, and given our solid revenue growth from 2018, equity-style dilutive capital was just not as attractive.”
TIMIA is continuously seeking new and exciting investments in the software as a service or SaaS industry. Under TIMIA’s revenue-based financing model, TIMIA advances capital to a SaaS business with a recurring revenue stream that allows the portfolio company to make monthly payments to TIMIA that are a combination of principal and interest with a repayment schedule sculpted to the portfolio company’s revenue streams. The amounts advanced are secured and may be repaid early. The Company expects to make further investments in the coming months, in the pursuit of its business model, which is to earn a combination of monthly payments and periodic gains on investments.
About Karbon Inc.
Karbon is an advanced workstream collaboration platform integrated with your email, ensuring visibility across teams, departments and locations. Karbon combines email, discussions, tasks and powerful workflows to keep everything your team needs to get work done in one place and in context. To learn how you can maximize your team’s output with Karbon, visit karbonhq.com
About TIMIA Capital Corporation
TIMIA Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company that provides growth capital to technology companies in exchange for payments based on monthly revenue. This alternative financing option complements both debt and equity financing, while allowing entrepreneurs and existing stakeholders to retain ownership and control of their business. TIMIA’s singular focus is the fast growing, global, business-to-business Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) segment. We align ourselves with entrepreneurial management teams growing their sales from $1 Million to $10 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue. For more information about TIMIA Capital Corporation, please visit www.timiacapital.com
For more information, please contact:
Darren Seed
Vice President, Capital Markets & Communications
Mike Walkinshaw, CEO
TIMIA Capital Corporation
(604) 398-8839
IR@timiacapital.com
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