Meet Peter Voldness and some of his ideas
The rise of a mining investment banker : Peter Voldness. In 1997 Analog founders Jim Culver and Andre St-Michel first collaborated on ECU Silver Mining Inc, a Toronto Stock Exchange Traded junior mining company focused on silver, gold, and base metals in Northern Mexico. Culver, then at hedge fund IIG, worked with St-Michel, then ECU CEO, to finance the project. The investment represented Culver’s first junior mining deal and required him to rely on St-Michel’s extensive mining and geology experience. ECU’s stock price, which was under $0.10, ended up trading above $2.70 USD, producing a well over 2,000% investor return, before being acquired by Golden Minerals Company in 2011.
Peter Voldness has structured and funded over 150 ventures and raised over $450 million dollars for start- up and development stage companies including life sciences, encompassing genotyping, gene editing, regenerative medicine, logistics for clinical trial support and medical devices. His background is corporate finance, capital formation, both private and public finance, acquisitions, both capital structure and balance sheet restructuring and operations. Mr. Voldness additionally has 30 years of complex trading market experience. He has consulted with and advised over 250 companies in his career, including the financing of two junior mining operations.
In an uncertain economy with growing political risk, Analog combines highly attractive investment attributes, years of experience in the finance sector, and a high growth technology product. The company’s portfolio currently includes two, near-production gold properties in Mexico – Tres Oros and San Fernando – and the technology platform Prospector, an AI-powered search engine designed for the mining sector.
Prospector offers a Service-as-a-Software (SaaS) platform that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a user-friendly way to access and analyze information. Prospector draws information from public exchanges and recently announced a collaboration with the leading global mining finance exchange, TMX Datalinx, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange and represents 48% of publicly traded mining projects globally.
Prospector is an AI-enabled technology platform built to modernize the way investors and researchers search for and access information about mining. Founded in 2020 by global mining expert Emily King, Prospector created the industry’s first searchable digital database with an easily navigable interface that allows anyone to tap into information about the $144B mining industry. Prospector is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Analog Gold, a mining investment company.