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Manufacturing funding, organized by topic
Every program and every state gets its own cluster: guides that walk the process, comparisons that put options side by side, checklists that get your file ready, and plain-English explainers for the terms underwriters use. Start with the cluster that matches what you are trying to fund.
Program clusters
Invoice Factoring
Everything a shop owner needs to evaluate factoring: how it works, what it costs, how it compares to lines of credit and MCAs, and the terms underwriters actually use.
Equipment Financing
Rates, timelines, and structures for financing CNC machines, presses, packaging lines, and everything else on the shop floor.
Purchase Order Financing
How to fund a confirmed purchase order when the supplier wants payment before your customer pays you.
Working Capital
Short-term funding for payroll, materials, and the gaps between making product and getting paid.
Asset-Based Lending
Revolving facilities secured by receivables, inventory, and equipment for manufacturers past the factoring stage.
SBA and Term Loans
The cheapest capital available to manufacturers who can wait for it: SBA 7(a), SBA 504, and conventional term loans.
State Funding Guides
State-specific guides covering local incentive programs, NIST MEP centers, underwriting considerations, and the funding programs that fit each state's manufacturing base.
State funding guides
State guides cover local incentive programs, MEP centers, and the underwriting considerations specific to each state's manufacturing base.
Click a state to open its funding guide. Keyboard: Tab to the map, use the arrow keys to move between states, Enter to open the selected state, Escape to clear.
- Texas
- California
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Michigan
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Florida
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- Tennessee
- Alabama
- Utah
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
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