Milestones
Our Growth Timeline
Our Growth
Timeline
2016
Move into Equipment
Finance
Following a foundation career on a leading global OEM heavy equipment sales platform, Bolt Capital’s founder migrated organically, and with deepened expertise, into one of the heavy equipment industry’s most critical success factors: equipment finance.
2018
Growth Through
Vendor Finance
After aggressively pressing into the highly active Southwestern Ontario market, the firm’s founder was strategically acquired in Toronto by one of North America’s leading vendor financing companies, with a special mandate to cover and grow strategic pan-cross-border accounts. He immediately established a pattern of record account growth beginning in his first year and advanced quickly within the organization as he continued to develop deep relationships with vendors, distributors, and manufacturers across Canada, the United States, and globally.
2021
Bolt Capital
Officially Launched
Bolt Capital Inc. was established as a full-service independent equipment finance platform. The company launched with a full team of account managers equipped with broad and deep industry proficiency. Bolt’s hallmark became its ability to nimbly and effectively support prime-credit, sub-prime-credit, and even distressed-credit obligors.
2022
Expanded Across
Canada & U.S.
Bolt became a pan-U.S. and Canadian platform after strategically entering the competitive, highly liquid, and lucrative U.S. market through the onboarding of an accretive suite of U.S.-based lenders. U.S. activities immediately increased Bolt’s average ticket size and expanded the firm’s cross-border financing capabilities.
2023
First Major International
OEM Contract
Bolt began exporting its domestic competencies internationally when it procured, through tender, a long-term contract to develop a bespoke end-to-end finance architecture for one of the largest Asia-based heavy equipment manufacturers in the world.
2024
Second Asian
OEM Mandate
Bolt was awarded a second and separate Asian OEM mandate to develop a bespoke finance program, further validating the firm’s ability to serve global equipment manufacturers with customized financing architecture.
2025
New offices & Platinum
Broker Award
As Bolt opened two new offices to serve the U.S. and Canada, Bolt Capital Inc. was honored as a recipient of the Top Platinum Broker Award from one of Canada’s largest vendors.
2026
Strategic Funding &
Platform Growth
Bolt became a platform company of Dreadnought Global Holdings Corp. through a strategic funding and partnership agreement. The agreement provides strategic capital to support Bolt’s deal origination activities, including a first-loss facility. In addition to the first-loss facility, Dreadnought has agreed to strategically fund a new regional equipment financing platform.