Moore Clayton & Co
Moore Clayton & Co., Inc. is a global private equity services firm specializing in strategic and financial advisory and investment for high-growth emerging and established companies. Organized in July 1999, the Company is based in Los Angeles, California and London, England with additional offices/personnel in San Francisco, California; Salt Lake City, Utah; New York City, New York; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany in addition to numerous International partnerships. MCC focuses on traditional industries where intersecting technologies enhance overall valuation and growth of the industry.
MCC offers services which “de-risk” deals to enhance and accelerate the likelihood of exits. The Company closely account manages every portfolio company and validates the business model/plan by leveraging its global executive level relationships into working strategic partnerships for the clients.
As proof that this model works, MCC’s first two clients accelerated from idea to public listing in less than nine months, and they are both continuing to generate revenue and meet growth targets!
The Founders, from strategic advisory and investment banking backgrounds, met at New Energy Ventures where their combined efforts help build an energy-related start-up into a viable company with a revenue run rate approaching $1B in its first 18 months! In the first year of deregulation in California, this company became the largest deregulated energy services company in the US--surpassing all of the largest utilities with deregulated subsidiary companies. NewEnergy (as it became known) sold to AES for in excess of $100M, whereupon the Founders decided to start MCC. The differentiator in the marketplace for the new Company was/is the combination of a strategic and operating background (Sharon Clayton) leading to a strategic advisory offering with an investment banking and operating background (Tony Moore) leading to a financial advisory and investment offering. Venture Capitalists were not performing the critically necessary advisory and account management functions; they were only investing and sitting on boards. This is the niche that MCC continues to fill—doing what VC’s should be doing or should have done!
