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Clarus Capital Put a $100 Million Ceiling on the Machine Room - Then Banks Stepped Back
The Boston lender built a private-credit business around an unfashionable truth: factories, fleets and data centers still need expensive physical things. Its playbook pairs leveraged-credit judgment with equipment expertise - and turns those contracts into repeatable capital-market fuel.
The $1 Billion Machine Behind the Machines
36th Street Capital turns forklifts, servers and factory floors into financial flexibility. Its quiet advantage is a hybrid funding engine built for deals that do not fit neatly inside a bank's credit box.
Valley Bank
Valley Bank has spent nearly a century getting bigger without wanting to feel big. Now, with about $64 billion in assets and a push into partner banking, it is testing whether a regional lender can offer national-bank machinery with a relationship banker still attached.