BrightZen Systems is a systems enabled, financial consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations start, run, and grow profitable revenue streams with a portfolio of software and managed services. We have led or arranged over a hundred private equity and debt financings, dozens of rounds of venture capital, two IPOs, seven sales of secondary stock, sixteen acquisitions and the sale of multiple companies —one twice. We have played the role of full or fractional CFO to venture financed companies like Second Life (grew revenue 8x), General Assembly (acquired for $413m), Market Leader (acquired for $355m), Assembled Brands (raised $100m), Affinity Internet (raised $73m), Robin Healthcare (closed $50m Series B), RentJuice (acquired for $50m), Commissions Inc. (acquired for $45m, re-invited to the Board, and sold again for $220m 16 months later), Amino (raised $25m Series C), Trust & Will (raised $15m Series B), Extrabux (acquired by eBates), Topia (raised $5m Series Seed), and many more.