Press release · August 2026 funding activity

August 2026 Industries Served List

Twelve fundings in August. Eleven businesses. One of them signed for two term loans on the same day, and the relationship behind that structure is what made the month worth writing about.

Chicago, September 8, 2026. Capital Source®, through its Private Credit Division, closed 12 transactions totaling $3,856,623 in August 2026, financing operators across the United States and Canada. Seven industry sectors. Individual fundings running from $31,623 to $1,000,000. Those are the numbers, and the numbers are the easy part.

Here is the part the spreadsheet will not tell you. A borrowing base is the pool of assets a lender can count and lend against: receivables, inventory, equipment. That is real, it matters, and no amount of goodwill replaces it. But there is something else sitting in the file that carries weight, and most lenders will not say it out loud.

At Capital Source, relationships are an *asset. They are not collateral, and they never replace underwriting. But a history of timely debt service, consistent communication, and firsthand familiarity with how a business operates can provide context that a spreadsheet alone cannot. Numbers tell you what happened. Relationships help us understand the story behind them and, when appropriate, find a structure that fits.

When a relationship creates more options

In August it created two term loans that a standard product sheet would not have produced. One existing client came to us needing a structure that did not fit the usual shape. We had funded that business before. We knew how it ran, we had watched it service prior debt on schedule, and we had enough history to understand how the business operates. So our Deal Desk gave the request extra attention and structured it as two separate $1,000,000 term loans, closing on the same day, because that is what the situation actually called for.

Two lines on the table below. One relationship. $2,000,000 of the month’s $3,856,623.

Now read the next part carefully, because it is easy to hear the wrong thing. The relationship did not replace underwriting. It did not set the price, skip a document, or decide the answer in advance, and nothing here means the same structure is sitting on a shelf waiting for whoever asks next. What the relationship did was supply context. When you already know how a business performs, you stop spending your time on the first question, which is who this operator is, and you start spending it on the better one: what shape should this actually take?

That is the difference between a lender meeting you for the first time and a lender who has been paying attention. Underwriting standards do not disappear because there is an existing relationship, and every request is still reviewed on its own. What changes is where the conversation starts.

Behind every line on the list below is something more ordinary and more human than a number in a column. Working capital to cover the gap between doing the work and getting paid for it. Equipment to take on more work. Inventory ahead of a season. Capacity to meet demand that has already shown up at the door. Nobody wakes up in the morning wanting a loan. They want the thing on the other side of it. That is what we try to structure capital around, one cash cycle at a time.

Where the capital went in August 2026

In August the money moved east. The Northeast took $2,300,000 of the $3,856,623 across three fundings, most of it in the two commitments described above. The West took $850,000 across four fundings, the widest spread of the month. The Midwest took $475,000 across two, and the South $200,000 across two. And one crossed the border into Canada for $31,623, the smallest funding of the month, which is only a small number until it is your small number.

Regions roll U.S. Census divisions into four broad regions, with Canadian fundings shown as Canada.

Industries served: August 1–31, 2026

The list below details every August 2026 funding by industry, region, and amount, ordered from the largest transaction to the smallest. There are no client names here, and there never will be. The businesses are real. The privacy is theirs.

Capital Deployment Themes

• At the Deal Desk, a relationship was an asset. Two of the 12 fundings, $2,000,000 of the $3,856,623, went to one existing client as two separate term loans closing on the same day. The underwriting standards were the ones we apply to every file. What was different was context: prior performance, a debt-service history we had watched in real time, and a Deal Desk that already knew the business well enough to spend its attention on structure instead of introductions.
• The other ten spread wide. The remaining $1,856,623 reached ten businesses across manufacturing, wholesale distribution, data infrastructure and hosting, construction, transportation, retail, and consulting, touching every region we funded in August, Canada included. Most of them are earlier in the relationship than the one above. That is how every one of them starts.
• Right-sized, not one-size-fits-all. August fundings ran from $31,623 to $1,000,000, each one structured around a specific operating need and cash cycle. The smallest funding on this list was built with the same care as the largest. A single standard product would have been easier for us and worse for them.

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Capital Source® is a family office-backed fintech platform providing credit solutions for small and lower-middle market companies. The firm operates across three verticals: Private Credit, Structured Trade Finance, and Underwriting Technology. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices across the country, Capital Source has provided funding to entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries and geographic regions. For more information, visit www.CapitalSourceGroup.com.

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This release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice or an offer of credit. Figures reflect Capital Source’s own funding activity for August 1–31, 2026. Industry labels follow the North American Industry Classification System as recorded for each business, and sector counts are at the NAICS sector level, with 31-33, 44-45, and 48-49 each counted as one sector. Regional groupings are editorial, rolling U.S. Census divisions into four broad regions, with Canadian fundings shown as Canada. An existing relationship does not guarantee approval, pricing, or any particular structure. Availability, amounts, structures, and terms depend on each business’s circumstances and are subject to review and approval.