Teresa Jensen

Teresa Jensen is a veteran financial architect, commercial lending authority, and small business strategist, specializing in SBA capital structures, non-dilutive financing, and the relationship-driven banking required to fuel corporate expansion.

With more than three decades of high-level banking experience, Teresa serves as an indispensable navigator for businesses seeking the capital infrastructure needed to scale. Her background is defined by specialized, expert-level mastery of Small Business Administration (SBA) loan programs, an asset she uses to dismantle the complexity and gatekeeping often associated with federal lending. Because she is a former business owner, Teresa approaches commercial finance with a rare founder-first perspective, replacing transactional banking with deeply collaborative, long-term advisory relationships.

This commitment to sustainable economic growth is reflected in her extensive history of regional leadership and civic architecture. Teresa has lent her strategic insight to foundational organizations across Iowa, serving on the Advisory Committee for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), volunteering with NewBoCo, the Linn County Housing Trust Fund, the Murray Family Foundation, and the American Heart Association’s Executive Planning Committee. By combining institutional financial leverage with a profound understanding of small-business grit, she helps founders confidently secure the lifelines needed to transition from early-stage momentum to market stability.

Align your capitalization goals with institutional lending standards using Teresa’s master-level approach to structuring business debt and securing non-dilutive funding.