Main Street Announces New Portfolio Investment

HOUSTON, Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") announced today that it recently led a new portfolio investment totaling $45.0 million of invested capital in Volusion, LLC ("Volusion"), with Main Street funding $31.5 million of the investment.  The proceeds of the investment were used to provide capital to fund Volusion's near-term growth opportunities.  Main Street's investment in Volusion included a combination of first-lien, senior secured term debt with equity warrant participation and a direct equity investment.  In addition, Main Street and its co-investor are providing Volusion a commitment for up to $10.0 million of additional capital to support its future growth opportunities and have the ability to fund additional capital in the future if needed to continue to support Volusion's growth.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, and founded in 1999, Volusion provides an online software-as-a-service solution for its customers' e-Commerce stores and activities.  Volusion is an industry leader in the small-to-medium sized business marketplace with over 40,000 active customer accounts.  Main Street's investment will enable Volusion to accelerate the development of its Mozu platform, which is targeted at the large enterprise market.   Main Street's investment supports Volusion's current management team, which retained majority equity ownership of the company.  

ABOUT MAIN STREET CAPITAL CORPORATION

Main Street (www.mainstcapital.com) is a principal investment firm that provides long-term debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies and debt capital to middle market companies. Main Street's portfolio investments are typically made to support management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, refinancings and acquisitions of companies that operate in diverse industry sectors.  Main Street seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides "one stop" financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. Main Street's lower middle market companies generally have annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. Main Street's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies.

Main Street's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the symbol "MAIN." In addition, Main Street has outstanding 6.125% Notes due 2023, which trade on the NYSE under the symbol "MSCA."

Contacts:
Main Street Capital Corporation
Dwayne L. Hyzak, COO, dhyzak@mainstcapital.com
Brent D. Smith, CFO, bsmith@mainstcapital.com
713-350-6000

Dennard ▪ Lascar Associates, LLC
Ken Dennard  |  ken@dennardlascar.com
Jenny Zhou |  jzhou@dennardlascar.com
713-529-6600

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SOURCE Main Street Capital Corporation