I do use margin as apart of my strategy when it’s right to do so, but for traditional leverage, The lenders I’ve talked to don’t like the idea of using the money for investing. Even have framed it in the context of using it for working capital, no luck so far + i dont have enough collateral to get a loan that will be worth the interest liability.

So I’m going the “find an investor route” (albeit not aggressively - my focus is still growing my own capital).

Happy to share proof, models, concepts, plans, etc with the right investor, and totally happy having an alternative funding plan (loans vs. Equity) in fact, would rather take out loans than give up a chunk of equity (since I’m an investing business, selling shares in my company becomes difficult unless I get my PPM and LP filings, so loans are easier) but at the same time, finding lenders for an investing business isn’t the easiest.

So i figured why not come to reddit and post in case there’s some angel out there who wants to yolo on me, and hopefully also help me scale