Can you get business funding at three or four months in business?

A revenue-based funder underwrites a deposit pattern, and three months is not a pattern. It is a launch, and launches do not predict what month seven looks like. Most funders publish six months as their minimum; a minority will look at four with a full book from day one — a stylist who brought two hundred clients, a contractor who moved an existing crew under a new entity — and they price the uncertainty into a small, short, expensive offer.

It is not a judgment about the business. It is the product reading what it can read.

Equipment financing. A truck, a machine, a kitchen line, chairs: the asset secures the loan, so the lender leans on the owner's personal credit, industry experience and a down payment of twenty percent or more rather than on deposits. Startup and first-year programs exist across the market for exactly this.

The owner's own file. A personal loan, a personal line of credit, or a business credit card issued on a personal guarantee — all underwritten on you rather than on the business, and all available before the business has a statement. They sit on your personal credit, and the business's success is what pays them. Many first-year businesses run on exactly this and move to business products at six months.

Vendor terms. A supplier who opens a net-30 account on a signed lease and a personal guarantee is thirty days of financing that needs no history.

Open the business account before the doors do. Deposit everything, run cards through a terminal into it, pay every expense from it. Keep a cushion so no day runs low and nothing bounces. At six months, a funder reads a business, and the offer reflects six clean months rather than six survived ones. The businesses that cannot get funded at a year are usually the ones whose deposits went somewhere else for the first six.