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V-Ten Capital Partners announces equity investment in leading international sourcing and logistics company.
September 1, 2009 - Richmond, VA and Shanghai, China - V-Ten Capital Partners, a Richmond, VA based private investment firm, announced today the closing of its equity investment in a leading international product sourcing and logistics company.  From its offices in Richmond and Shanghai, the company provides comprehensive import management services, including factory evaluation and negotiation, product QA and QC, supply chain service fulfillment, distribution, warehousing and returns.  The company is currently assisting a leading e-commerce company with the development and manufacture of private label consumer electronic products.
 
V-Ten Capital Partners announces Series A investment in the world’s first multi-national mobile banking network.

August 11, 2009 – Richmond, VA and Washington, DC – V-Ten Capital Partners, a Richmond, VA based private investment firm, announced today the closing of its Series A equity investment in the world’s first multi-national mobile banking network which supports mobile phone-enabled financial services in emerging market countries. The company licenses its mobile banking network platform to microfinance organizations that desire to launch mobile financial services for their customers. Services provided to customers include loan payment, bill payment, merchant purchases, cash deposit, cash withdrawal, peer-to-peer transfers and international remittances.  In each country served, the company partners with a leading mobile network operator and enlists merchant participation for mobile payment acceptance. Network operations will be based in Tbilisi, Georgia which will support licensed mobile banks in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa.
 
V-Ten Capital Partners announces investment in distributor of breakthrough medical textile technology.
May 12, 2009 - Richmond, VA and Orlando, FL - V-Ten Capital Partners, a Richmond, VA based private investment firm, announced today the closing of its equity investment in an Orlando, FL-based distributor and exclusive North American licensee of patented technical textile technology for use in the medical industry. The company’s technology and advances in medical apparel are breakthrough solutions that address the threat of hospital infections.
 
V-Ten Capital Partners announces Series A investment in leading reverse mortgage company.
December 19, 2008 - Richmond, VA - V-Ten Capital Partners, a Richmond, VA based private investment firm, announced today the closing of its Series A equity investment in a leading reverse mortgage company. The company, which currently originates reverse mortgages to qualifying senior citizens, has developed industry-leading software to assist its wholesale partners in the streamlining of the application and underwriting process.  This Richmond, VA-based company is currently one of only ten companies in the United States licensed and approved by FNMA to provide government-guaranteed HECM reverse mortgage products.
 
V-Ten Capital Partners Managing Director, Richard L. Sharp elected to the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.
October 23, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV - The Consumer Electronics Association announced Richard L. Sharp, former Chairman and CEO of Circuit City, and current Managing Director of V-Ten Capital Partners, as an inductee to the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame Class of 2008. During Mr. Sharp’s tenure at Circuit City, the company’s revenue grew from $175 million to over $12 billion dollars, becoming the nation’s leading consumer electronics chain.