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January 23, 2024

Leonid Provides Working Capital To EMPEQ Based On Air Force Phase 2 SBIR

Leonid provides working capital to EMPEQ based on an Air Force SBIR phase ll contract.

Leonid is excited to provide strategic working capital to a groundbreaking technology company tackling critical National Security challenges through advanced materials analysis. Their innovative software platform leverages cutting-edge technology to identify electronic components with unparalleled accuracy and speed.

“EMPEQ’s work goes beyond safeguarding individual missions; it strengthens the very foundation of our national defense,” said James Parker, Managing Partner at Leonid Capital Partners. “Their innovative technology represents a paradigm shift in quality control regarding National Security supply chain, and we are proud to support their mission through our unique investment strategy.”

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May 28, 2025

Leonid Capital Partners Launches Washington, D.C. Headquarters with STATION DC

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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May 26, 2025

Leonid Capital Partners Featured on Building the Base Podcast

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May 13, 2025

Leonid Capital Partners & The Outpost Launch Strategic Alliance to Support Defense-Tech Startups

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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February 13, 2025

Encouraging Defense Investing: Incentives Matter

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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February 4, 2025

Investing in Adversaries: The Case Against Long-Term Capital Gains for Carried Interest in National Adversary Economies

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 27, 2025

Leonid Capital Partners Provides $20MM Credit Investment to Anivive

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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November 21, 2024

Leonid Capital Partners Surpasses $265 Million Raised

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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November 8, 2024

James Parker on Manifest Space with Morgan Brennan

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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September 3, 2024

Startup Mars

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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July 11, 2024

Capital Fueling Defense

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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July 9, 2024

The Inverted Yield Curve and Implications for National Security Investment

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July 6, 2024

Leonid Partners with Headlamp

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July 1, 2024

James Parker on The StartUp Defense

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June 14, 2024

Pulse 2.0 has Featured Leonid as a Firm Accelerating Innovators in Government and Defense Technology.

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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May 1, 2024

Leonid Expands Space Portfolio With a $20MM+ Term Loan to ABL Space Systems

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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April 29, 2024

Chris Lay Featured on Slice of Finance Podcast

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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March 13, 2024

Leonid Capital Partners Bolsters Space Portfolio with $6.25MM investment in Phase Four.

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February 20, 2024

Leonid Capital Partners provides $7MM Private Credit financing supporting Teedup’s acquisition of 55 industries.

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 25, 2024

“Selectable, Not Funded”: That, and a nickel, will get you a cup of coffee.

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 10, 2024

There are No Atheists in Foxholes: Diversify or Die

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 9, 2024

Leonid Provides A $1.5MM Term Loan To Asylon Robotics Based On A US Air Force SBIR Award

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 2, 2024

The New York Times Has Featured Leonid As A Key Firm Focused On Defense Investing

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December 29, 2023

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions: IRS Section 174 vs. National Security

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December 11, 2023

Chris Lay on The Innovators Podcast

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December 7, 2023

Leonid Provides Working Capital Line To Trion Technology A Government Subcontractor

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November 1, 2023

James Parker and Christopher Lay, Have Been Featured In The OC Business Journal

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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October 12, 2023

Leonid Capital Partners Welcomes Two New Board Members

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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September 26, 2023

Worried About A Government Shutdown? You Have Financing Options

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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June 27, 2023

James Parker Joins War on the Rocks

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June 22, 2023

Qualifying for Government Invoice Factoring

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April 26, 2023

Unlock Your Business’s Potential with True Government Contract Financing

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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April 19, 2023

Leonid Capital Management at ADISA 2023

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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March 28, 2023

Invest in US National Security

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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March 23, 2023

Leonid Capital Management at ALTSLA 2023

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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March 2, 2023

SBIR & STTR Award Opportunities 2023

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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February 16, 2023

What Is The Difference Between Government Contract Financing And Government Invoice Factoring

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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February 9, 2023

United States Marine Corps Major General (Ret.) Melvin G. Spiese Joins Leonid Capital Management Board of Advisors

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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October 6, 2022

Leonid Provides Line Of Credit Facility For Program Management And Cloud Services

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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September 15, 2022

Leonid To Provide $5 Million In Contract Finance To The Provenance Chain Network To Help Expand Operations

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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September 13, 2022

The Trouble With Financing Government Contracts

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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June 21, 2022

Client Success Story -Cutting-Edge Ecological Preservation Startup AguaCulture Technologies

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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May 10, 2022

Grow Your Small Business Through Government Contracting

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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March 1, 2022

What is the DOD Trusted Capital Program?

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 20, 2022

What are the SBIR and STTR Grant programs? Is Financing Available?

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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January 17, 2022

How to Finance your Government Contract

Leonid Capital Partners (Chris Lay and James Parker): Leonid Capital Partners emerged from the combined expertise of our founders, Chris Lay and James Parker, whose backgrounds uniquely intertwine finance and government contracting.

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