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Things are Looking Up

Revenue-based financing lets rapidly growing companies keep their equity
Revved up: John Stewart of Cloudbilt.

John Stewart knew his company needed a hefty cash infusion to transition from a cloud services provider to a software provider. Without physical assets to borrow against, a bank loan was out of the question; venture capital wasn't an option, either. "We were too late for angel funding and too early for growth funding," says Stewart, CEO of Charlotte, N.C.-based Cloudbilt.

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