Hailey Waller

A Raleigh, North Carolina-based company raised $400,000 through a private stock offering from 13 investors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Social Beverage Company LLC, was founded in 2016 by Cary Joshi, Gaurav Patel and Mark Mullins. The company filed the Form D on Oct. 18. Joshi is president. Joshi served as president of Hunter Lane Commercial Real Estate, which provided brokerage and land development services to large companies and high net worth individuals from 2002 to 2015. Patel is vice president of marketing. He was born in India and grew up in Morehead City, North Carolina....

A North Carolina wealth management company filed to raise $14.2 million in debt financing, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. VisionQuest Capital LLC filed the Form D on Oct. 5. The total offering was $14.2, and so far the company has sold $11.2 million of debt to 39 investors. The remaining amount to be sold is $3 million. The date of the first sale was July 8, 2010, and the minimum investment was $20,000, the company said. The Raleigh-based combination wealth management and boutique acquisition company is now in its 11th year. The company had 12 employees...

A Charlotte-based music technology company filed to raise $10 million in financing, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Vertigo Media Inc. filed the form D on Sept. 27, 2016. The first sale was on Sept. 20 and $50,000 has been raised with $9,950,000 remaining to be sold as of the date of the filing. The company selected to offer equity financing and option, warrant, or other right to acquire another security, according to the filing. Vertigo has filed six form Ds since 2014. The company filed another form D on Aug. 3, 2016, to raise $10 million...

A 26-year-old Duke University graduate has raised another $2.1 million for her privately held energy drink company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. MATI Energy sold $2.1 million to 19 investors, with $61,767 remaining to be sold. It has now raised $4.3 million in the last two years. The form was filed Aug. 16. Chief Executive Officer Tatiana Birgisson began brewing in her dorm room at Duke to stay productive through a bout of depression and later began bottling the tea and selling it to neighbors. Backers, including AOL co-founder Steve Case, turned onto Birgisson’s product after...