Leverage Capital leads a consortium of entrepreneurially thinking individuals who have the capability to identify viable projects. This capability to qualify viable projects, our leadership team along with our financing arm, enables us to fund projects anywhere from three to five hundred million US dollars (3MUSD – 500MUSD). Our team of internationally experienced engineers, analysts, financiers and management consultants work in partnership with project owners with a dedicated commitment to enable market wins.

Once Leverage Capital identifies a viable project it engages internationally leading banks, hedge funds, asset managers and other financial institutions who offer Leverage Capital the financial instruments, products and/or insurance policy that ultimately leads to the affordable loans for selected Leverage Capital projects.

Unlike venture capitalist who take away the company’s heart and sole, by significantly diluting the founders, or banks who are too risk averse, we enable project success by providing affordable capital, against minimal collateral and minimal dilution of existing shareholders along with the needed leadership and expertise to thrive. In addition to providing the needed leadership along with affordable capital, we provide projects the needed runway to take off by providing a grace period that is suitable for them to return the loan when they are cash flow positive.

Financing Terms and Conditions

At Leverage Capital we believe organizations have become complacent with “business as usual” and confined with out of date paradigms that stifle business and societal growth. Traditional ways of access to capital bog down entrepreneurs and disable them from focusing on market wins. Leverage Capital is here to change that by providing affordable capital with the leadership and strategic advise to seek dominance not the “status quo”. Our team of leaders provides the sheer will, courage, and capital, to seek to be number one.

What We Stand For

The values, not our capital, that are deeply rooted in our organization is what ultimately drives success in the companies we partner with.

Fun engaging leadershipShould work remain work then results will at best be mediocre. If teams are not emotionally connected and passionate about what they do their performance will suffer. Its time, while having serious goals, to bring fun back into the work space.
Encourage CandorAt Leverage Capital we shy away from the cultural norm to sugar coat our feelings/ideas and ensure a process where ideas get surfaced, debated and extended enabling the “best ideas to win”. No matter if you’re the Managing Director or a driver every voice, in its candid form, is in the game!
Establish TrustTrust is not a “nice to have” but at the heart of Leverage Capital’s organization and is an economic driver that directly impacts speed and costs.
Learning OrganizationAs Bill Gates said, “The complacent company is a dead company. Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react and reinvent”.
Take ResponsibilityAt Leverage Capital we take a hard look in the mirror before pointing fingers through the window. We feel responsible for our clients success and although we have no formal authority we understand and leverage our influence.
4E-P PrincipleAt Leverage Capital technical and subject matter expertise is not the “end-game” but the beginning as we hire and promote, both internally and externally, based on the 4E-P (Energy, Energize, Edge, Execute & Passion) Principle.
Focus on results not activitiesSoft intangibles like a sense of history, “the nice guy”, coming in early and staying late are all important; however, its results that truly count.
Keep it simple stupid (KISS)If something is too complicated then its wrong! Leadership’s job is to simplify simplify simplify

Leadership

Shawn Bayati

Chairman and CEO

Shawn is an experienced and successful entrepreneur, owner and senior executive of multiple international companies that span across a number of verticals and continents. Shawn is chief missionary and visionary for Leverage Capital and focused on making a difference for entrepreneurs around the world.
As a versatile executive, Shawn brings experience from a finance, software, business development, engineering and project management perspective where he has founded, co-founded and played a senior leadership role in building and steering several businesses in the electricity, water & waste water, oil & gas, telecommunication, transportation and internet industries across a number of continents.
Playing a central role in building various types of businesses across several continents, along with Shawn’s capability to raise funds, uniquely positions Shawn to bring value to project owners – an enthusiastic passion Shawn delivers via Leverage Capital.

Shawn Bayati

Chairman and CEO

Shawn is an experienced and successful entrepreneur, owner and senior executive of multiple international companies that span across a number of verticals and continents. Shawn is chief missionary and visionary for Leverage Capital and focused on making a difference for entrepreneurs around the world.
As a versatile executive, Shawn brings experience from a finance, software, business development, engineering and project management perspective where he has founded, co-founded and played a senior leadership role in building and steering several businesses in the electricity, water & waste water, oil & gas, telecommunication, transportation and internet industries across a number of continents.
Playing a central role in building various types of businesses across several continents, along with Shawn’s capability to raise funds, uniquely positions Shawn to bring value to project owners – an enthusiastic passion Shawn delivers via Leverage Capital.