Next Street Merchant Bank Leverages Combined Power of AIM and PULSE

Broomfield, CO, June 09, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Next Street deploys capital and other resources to help inner city small businesses improve performance. Using PULSE and AIM together as a centralized database, they will be able to track and manage all the financials and impact metrics for the organizations they support and to track all activities that support those organizations.

Next Street is a merchant bank founded to serve high-performing, high-potential inner city small businesses and entrepreneurs across the U.S. Next Street selects businesses that are poised for growth and, in the context of a long-term trusted advisor, provides them with the tandem assets of finance and advice that together ensure they achieve their full potential.

Small businesses in inner cities form a large — and growing — market of attractive opportunities. Next Street enters this market as a unique player, with an innovative business model. Despite impressive performance and high potential, inner city small businesses have historically been underserved by banks and other traditional financial service providers. They face structural barriers to accessing the financing they need to support their growth. Next Street capitalizes on the substantial unmet needs created by the gaps and inefficiencies in urban small business lending and investment.

Application Experts, LLC (App-X) is the leading provider of flexible web-based solutions for Alternative Asset Fund Managers and Institutional Investors.

Today, App-X has over 50 clients and nearly 800 individual users using AIM and PULSE.

App-X is headquartered outside of Denver with offices in Boston and Chicago.

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