.jpg)
Entrepreneurs do not grow in straight lines. They grow in surges: big orders, fast-moving opportunities, surprise contracts, sudden demand spikes. And while the timing of growth is unpredictable, one thing seems guaranteed: traditional financing will rarely be ready when the founder is.
This is why we built Summit Bridge, Clotine’s new investment vertical focused on Accounts Receivable (AR) and Purchase Order (PO)financing. It’s a space we know intimately — and that we have seen far too many times to ignore.
But the story behind Summit Bridge stretches back through decades of entrepreneurial battle scars (the good kind), operator lessons, and the bizarre reality that great companies can fail simply because someone didn’t release capital fast enough.
Built from Decades Inside Real Companies
Clotine founder Dan Abbate has spent his career inside businesses that actually do things: manufacturing, logistics, tech, industrial services, consumer goods, and plenty of operations that never make it into glossy pitch decks.
In these environments, Dan has seen every variation of:
“We can fulfill this order but need capital yesterday.”
And now, through his work as a Harvard Entrepreneur in Residence, the pattern is even clearer. Founders with traction. Real customers. Strong demand. But growth bottlenecked by the lag between invoices and cash.
These aren’t risky companies.
They are simply companies moving at today’s speed, not banking‑speed.
Summit Bridge was designed to bridge that gap-- literally.
Hurley: The Operator Who’s Seen the Numbers Behind the Curtain
Partnering with Dan on Summit Bridge is Hurley, who brings a different but equally sharp vantage point. As the founder of Fox &Partners, he transformed a one-man bookkeeping practice into a 14-person outsourced CFO finance team that helps companies make smarter, faster decisions.
He has helped clients:
- raise over $10M in capital
- untangle messy cash flow,
- build scalable systems,
- and turn “We are drowning” into “We are growing.”
He too has seen the same problem over and over: strong companies stuck in place because accessing short-term capital felt like applying for a mortgage.
So Dan, Hurley and the Clotine team have built Summit Bridge to be the opposite of that: fast, flexible, and grounded in rigorous risk management.
What Summit Bridge Offers
For founders:
- Quick access to working capital
AR and PO financing without the corporate obstacle course
- A team that actually understands operations
- A partner who can move at their speed
For investors:
- 12% return and monthly cash flow
- Opportunities secured by receivables from vetted, top-tier customers
- Strong risk controls from operators who know how to read a business from the inside
- A market with more demand for capital than available supply
This is not speculative hype. It’s real companies fulfilling real orders for real customers.
The alternative pays. Quite literally.
Why This Vertical Matters
We believe the most interesting businesses today are not waiting around for Wall Street to catch up, and neither should the capital that supports them.
Summit Bridge sits at the intersection of:
- operators who understand the tempo of real growth,
- entrepreneurs who don’t have time to wait, and
- investors who like healthy returns backed by actual business activity (a refreshing concept).
It’s practical.
It’s needed.
It’s built from experience, not theory.
%20(1).webp)
.webp)
