VEDC
5121 Van Nuys Blvd., 3rd Floor, Van Nuys, CA, 91403, United States
Overview
VEDC is a leading non-profit small business lender that is changing the small business lending by making it more available and impactful. As a national small business lender with 38 years of expertise, VEDC has lent $380 million in direct and guaranteed loans to 104,000 small businesses and created more than 28,000 jobs and helping to create more than 2,000 new businesses.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Government
- GovTech
Investment portfolio
- Noble Media
Led · Equity · Mar 2018
Noble Media is a Redlands, California-based B-certified media company co-founded by Chris Theodore and Dr. Hajnalka Hogue. It produces digital and physical media channels and uses proprietary technology and structure to enable advertisers to influence every household or business in a locality. Its flagship is The Reader, a print local magazine mailed to 390,000 people in 17 Inland Empire cities. The Reader is complemented by a digital/mobile channel that is updated in real time. Noble Media raised $200k in funding from the Valley Economic Development Center (VEDC). The company intends to use the capital to execute its growth plan in America.