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LEONID is a private credit fund based in Southern California, specializing in Government Contract & SBIR STTR Award Financing. We are a Trusted Capital Providers of the US Department of Defense Trusted Capital Program. We support and finance start-ups, small- and medium-sized businesses in different industries across the United States. Our commitment is to use our cutting-edge approach to fund our country’s critical businesses quickly, safely, and reliably while supporting our communities. We accomplish this through our unique Secured Government Contract Financing model approach, which has launched us to becoming the go-to financial services provider for a currently under-banked ecosystem that consists of all sectors within the US government (Intelligence, Aerospace, Defense, Cybersecurity, IT, Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning, Health, Education, Agriculture, etc..). We offer funding with no minimums, custom structures, and lines up to $25,000,000. Many of our clients are veteran-, women-, or minority-owned businesses, and we aim to support them in ways beyond just improving cash flow. We believe in giving back, and more importantly, that you don’t have to wait in order to do so; this is why we have committed to reinvesting half of our net profits in charitable causes with whom we share the common goal of creating a more compassionate, more just, and more inclusive world.