Among my travels I made a good friend that was in the equipment leasing business. But not what you're thinking. They lease only equipment that costs over a million dollars and they lease to tech start-ups. His business is to determine which ones have a good chance of making it and then getting investors to finance the equipment so he can turn around and lease it. He has a very high success rate, which is why he still attracts investors when everyone else is struggling. If it's a company that produces any sort of hardware, maybe I can forward the company name to him and see what he thinks (although if they're not wanting to lease equipment, it's probably not worth his time to check out.)