Cherry Tree & Associates, LLC is a private investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis, specializing in serving growth and technology companies. Founded in 1980, the firm has worked with numerous education-related businesses. Cherry Tree provides sell-side advisory engagements for companies worth between $10 million to $200 million, and buy-side advisory engagements for companies as large as $3 billion in revenues. We assist entrepreneurial companies in the raising of equity capital private placements and provide fairness opinions and other valuation services. In the past five years we have handled transactions cumulatively valued at nearly two billion dollars.