Core Venture Partners, LLC, is a merchant banking and advisory firm, formed to focus on the under-served middle market sector. The primary focus of Core is to assist companies with financial and organizational structuring, as well as consulting advice relative to go to market strategies that lead to funding alternatives or sale of the company in a well organized merger or acquisition transaction. Having worked as an operating executive with Fortune 500 companies, as a senior executive and entrepreneur with several Silicon Valley technology companies, and as an investment banker and turn around CEO, founding partner Joe Martinez is acutely aware of the challenges encountered by early-stage and middle market publicly traded companies. Mr. Martinez and the other experienced Core professional have hands-on experience helping these companies achieve success. Key to the success of Core is the relationship that it has established with successful operating executives and entrepreneurs in the tech sector as well as funding institutions on Wall Street. His global contacts and association with Partner's Richard Walker and Ning Chen provides Core’s clients with the global exposure necessary to work on difficult financial and strategic transactions.