Alpine Meridian

What We Do

Alpine Meridian helps clients with investment banking, strategy, and corporate and business development. Founded in 1987, Alpine Meridian has extensive relationships and expertise in information services, digital media, healthcare, electronic payments, and software.

Strategic Advisory & Business Development

Alpine Meridian works with major corporations and emerging businesses to develop digital strategies and accelerate revenue growth. We help clients expand business development activities, identify and negotiate strategic alliances, and create marketing partnerships. Representative engagements include:

• Structure and negotiate a VPN for the largest pharmaceutical company, allowing it to communicate with and market to selected physicians.


• Negotiate agreements for one of the world’s largest publishers with major telecommunications and web partners to increase its distribution and licensing revenues.


• Source new distributions channels for a major healthcare publisher and identify acquisitions to expand its digital network.


• Advise a leading legal database provider on expanding its online presence, selection of distribution partners, and pricing.


• Help a leading healthcare publisher develop consumer and professional marketplaces, identify strategic partnerships and expand revenues.

Help a leading business publisher increase profitability of its digital activities of its 100+ properties, optimizing vendors, content and marketing.

Develop a strategy for a major consumer media company to monetize its digital assets.

Advise one of the largest providers of technical services on strategic acquisitions to expand its engineering and systems integration business.

Evaluate hosting, connectivity, and digital programming alternatives for a major entertainment industry publisher; identify partners and negotiate agreements.

Develop a leading music company’s web distribution strategy and negotiate marketing partnerships with partners.

Create a product plan for a regional telecommunications company to increase the revenues and profitability of its digital businesses.

Negotiate agreements with third party distribution channels for a leading consumer publisher to increase its news service’s online subscriber revenues.

Initiate, structure and close strategic alliances with major financial publishers for a financial tools company.

Assist a major educational company in negotiating online marketing partnerships.

Initiate, negotiate, and close marketing partnerships for a national fulfillment company.

Structure an marketing partnership between a major online business and an EMR provider.

Initiate and structure a joint marketing agreement between an emerging entertainment business and a major publishing distributor.

Create and manage an IVR service for a major media company.

Create and manage digital joint ventures with telecommunications and publishing companies.

Investment Banking

Alpine Meridian and its affiliates provide clients integrated financing solutions. We have investments in and relationships with many funds and strategic investors, providing clients with access to capital and with insight and assistance in optimizing transactions. Alpine Meridian advises clients on financings and M&A, and sources and structures investment capital from strategic corporate investors, venture capital firms, and prominent private investors. Representative transactions include:

• Advise a contextual search company on its spin-off from a prior entity; initial financing from influential industry participants, corporate development activities; and sale of the company.


• Advise a SaaS software company on its equity financing.


• Advise a leading business services company on its private placement and IPO, business development transactions, and two equity investments.


• Advise a start-up web advertising company on its initial capitalization and subsequent financings from industry investors.


• Advise on optimizing the capital structure of an entertainment company backed by one of the world’s largest banks and prominent music industry veterans.


• Advise a leading B2B corporation on an equity investment in a prominent scientific community.


• Advise a M2M data and metering business on equity financing from venture capital firms and strategic investors.


• Advise on equity financing for a leading text and video messaging provider from a prominent international venture firm.


• Advise a wireless software company on equity financing from one of the largest venture firms.


• Advise on the acquisition of a credit card processor, development of its business strategy and its ultimate sale to a public entity.

Investments

Alpine Meridian and affiliates invest in information services, software, and technology businesses, together with its network of experienced venture and individual investors. We provide operational and marketing expertise that helps businesses grow and succeed.

• AmericanWholeHealth Leading network of alternative healthcare providers (Sold to Axia Health/Healthways)


• BYFAD Social commerce platform for hospitality industry (Sold to LivingSocial)


• Certify Enterprise-class, cloud-based expense management software


• Circadence Optimization platform for application acceleration and enhanced IT performance


• Delphi Solutions Canadian telecommunications systems and services provider (Sold to AT&T)


• EnerTrac M2M metering to improve businesses’ operational efficiencies


• Fetchback Retargeting platform for advertisers and publishers (Sold to GSI Commerce/eBay)


• Fieldpoint Private Bank and Trust Private bank and multi-family office


• Force Therapeutics Physical therapy patient management and tracking platform


• IndustryBrains Leading site-specific contextual performance advertising platform (Sold to Marchex)


• invivodata Clinical outcome assessment data (Sold to ERT) 


• Invuity Advanced optical structures deliver light uniformly and efficiently during less invasive surgery


• Lenddo Credit scoring service / lender that uses borrowers’ online social graphs to evaluate credit risk


• Madison Logic Leading lead generation ad serving and inventory management platform


• Orbit Commerce Provider of e-commerce platforms (Sold to Digital River)


• PayPerks Benefits platform for the financially underserved


• PEXCard Corporate prepaid cards to fund employee purchases


• Precision Health Media Largest healthcare ad network


• SanbolicRethink Autism Web-based educational treatment solutions for autism assessment, training, and monitoring


• Sanbolic Software for large-scale data management and enhanced application availability


• SetJam Building the future of TV (Sold to Motorola Mobility)


• Spanfeller Media Group All things food and drink


• Telephia Largest provider of consumer research to telecom / mobile media markets (Sold to Nielsen)


• Tranvia Full-service credit/debit/prepaid/gift card processor (Sold to Comdata)


• Transactis Electronic bill presentment and payment platform for financial institutions


• Trustwave Leading provider of on-demand data security and PCI compliance management solutions