The private company UAB “Šiaulių banko investicijų valdymas” (Šiaulių Bankas Investment Management) (SBIM) is a risk capital company offering Lithuanian small and medium enterprises complex investment and financing models. Specialists of SBIM collaborate with banks, leasing companies and finance management consultants. SBIM designs non-traditional models of investment and finance management which allows the companies solving temporary capital shortage, optimisation of shareholders’ structure and finance management problems and successfully develop their business.

One of the major reasons of success of SBIM is that the company by means of various combinations of the known ways of financing has offered small businesses an alternative to traditional bank loans or leasing. Most of the companies and private customers with whom SBIM collaborates often do not have a possibility to borrow from banks for their projects because according to the banks’ standards they are either too risky or the customer cannot produce a guarantee.