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At Fountain Partners, we recognize that every client has their unique needs when it comes to leasing equipment. That’s why we offer an efficient and flexible approach to equipment leasing. We understand that businesses require customized equipment leasing options to meet their unique challenges. Our solutions are scalable, meaning we can adjust them to match the size or scope of your project. We pride ourselves on our ability to understand complex situations and present our clients with innovative solutions that meet their needs.

Equipment Financing Solutions for Growing Businesses
 

Venture and Expansion Stage Leasing

Fountain focuses on financing tangible fixed assets for companies at various stages spanning from pre-revenue to late stage growth. We are agnostic with regard to the industries we serve and the collateral we finance (spanning from furniture and IT servers to laboratory and production equipment). We provide custom-tailored lease structures that are non-restrictive, non-dilutive, and complementary to a business’s existing capitalization.  By utilizing our financing, clients oftentimes experience increases in working capital, increases in cash runway and a reduction in equity dilution – the underlying principal being that we support businesses investing equity capital in higher returning aspects of the business such as sales and marketing, operations, and special projects rather than depreciating fixed assets. Traditionally, our financings take one of two forms:

New Equipment Financing

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Lease Lines of Credit are designed and structured to meet future financing needs related to capital expenditures.  A Lease Line extends credit over a period of time where draws are made by the company in order to make certain asset purchases. With that in mind, businesses we work with in this capacity are generally growing, and as a result, have a continued need for investment in infrastructure. While constructing a Lease Line of Credit, we spend time understanding the immediate and long term capital needs , the cadence by which assets are being procured, and provide a financing program that complements the operating plan of the business.

Sale and Leaseback of Existing Equipment

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Sale Leaseback transactions are designed to provide businesses with a one-time infusion of cash.  In most circumstances, a business owns unencumbered fixed assets, sells the assets in return for cash proceeds, and concurrent with the sale, agrees to lease the assets over a period of time.  Businesses we work with in this capacity are generally growing and seeking an improvement in working capital or refinancing an existing lender or lessor.  While constructing a Sale Leaseback, we spend time understanding the assets being financed and how our financing will complement the operating plan of the business.

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Our Process

Through working with numerous businesses over the years, we have created a process to make decisions efficiently and quickly.  During our review and evaluation process we ask for specific business information, a description of the asset(s) being financed, and time with a member of management in order to deepen our understanding the business model. Through our non-formulaic and non-checkbox approach to underwriting, we have the ability to understand both standard and complicated credit situations and provide financing terms within 2 to 4 days following our review of information. We have flexibility in our financing structures related to term/duration, structure (e.g. we can structure both capital leases and operating leases), and monthly repayment rates.

Access to Capital

Grow your business with incremental capital

Non-Dilutive

Minimize dilution by  utilizinig a non-dilutive source of capital

Increase Runway

Increase your cash runaway by financing your capex purchases

Non-Restrictive

No covenants, blanket liens, or restrictive operating covenants

Working With the Best Clients and Partners

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Our Story

Fountain Partners is based in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2006. We are a specialty finance company whose mission is to be the most flexible, nimble and efficient source of equipment lease capital for growing businesses. We manage private credit funds that provide capital in the form of equipment leases to companies ranging from pre-revenue to publicly traded, across multiple sectors and industries.

We pride ourselves on our ability to support a company’s equipment leasing needs from the business plan stage to maturity or exit.  Having our financial backing for fixed assets, our clients are able to better focus on growing their business and better able to create more equity value between rounds or ahead of a sale. When a client’s business model calls for $1 million or more in fixed assets and we are able to establish a lines of credit in advance of that need, we have seen our client’s follow on equity rounds close faster, with larger offers from more top tier venture capital firms, and at higher valuations. This is because we take the capex part of the business model out of the capital structure. Capex funding becomes elastic and non-dilutive.

At Fountain, the partners have built companies from nothing, they have run small businesses, and have managed, invested in, bought, sold and taken public large businesses.  Once a prospect engages with us they are able to get immediate feedback from a partner in one phone call.  Our clients don’t have to wait weeks or months to find out what some “committee members” who did not listen to their pitch decided.

There are two reasons for this: experience and simplicity. The experience of the partners means that it will not take us long to understand your needs and how we may be able to help. The simplicity of our organization means fast and accurate feedback and the ability to execute quickly.

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