Financing for hardware scale-ups

Our capital at work

Venture leasing, asset-based lending and factoring

Accelerate the Journey to Scale

Customer demand creates a financing need: deployment, order fulfilment and equipment must be funded before the revenue arrives.

Kineo bridges this HardTech capital gap with asset-based finance designed to optimize the balance of risk and return in the capital stack.

Explore our approach

The Kineo Advantage

Finance smarter

Balance risk and return

Fund scale-up with the assets you deploy, not with equity.

Scale faster

Deploy in step with demand

Draw flexible finance as demand builds, so capital never sits idle.

Stay in control

Execute and adapt

Asset finance structured around how ventures sell to customers.

We understand HardTech ventures and back them with expertise and conviction.

Find out how we do it

Global Reach Local Expertise

Enabling European and North American ventures to deploy physical systems across the globe.

Meet the team

Built for HardTech

Founded in Basel, Switzerland in 2016

Pioneered Venture Leasing for Hardware-as-a-Service

4 Offices across Europe  and North America

Over 125,000 hard assets financed

Systems deployed in over 20 countries worldwide

Over 40 innovative HardTech ventures backed

Kineo understands what it takes to build and deploy autonomous, certified equipment for hazardous industrial sites, and they’ve backed us with the finance we've needed to fuel our growth.

The difference with Kineo’s financing is that it is designed around our business model and how our customers buy. They’ve been responsive and flexible, and working with them has enabled us to go to market with innovative commercial models, which now make up more than a third of our backlog.

Kineo’s asset-based financing covers the upfront investment needed to deploy our solutions on a rental basis. Combined with their outstanding support, this gives us the financial flexibility to pursue our growth objectives across Europe and North America.