Inc.: Connecting Founders to Capital, Without the Red Tape

These Inc. Power Partner companies are making it less complicated—and less intimidating—to access capital.

November 5, 2025

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Mona was named to the 2025 Inc. Power Partner Awards list alongside top small business-serving companies like Intuit Quickbooks, Canva, Gusto, and more. The list honors the best products and services for SMBs in the U.S. and internationally. It was also selected as one of the few award-winners to be profiled in one of Inc.'s feature stories, "Connecting Founders to Capital, Without the Red Tape," for its work with underbanked entrepreneurs. Read an excerpt and see a link to the full article below.

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For many fledgling entrepreneurs, raising capital can feel like a pipe dream. Many don’t know where to look or whom to ask. Once they get started, they can struggle to navigate the complicated web of qualifications, applications, filings, and paperwork. 

But that doesn’t have to be the case. Thanks to a handful of Inc. Power Partner companies that have built their businesses around connecting founders to funding, small businesses across the U.S. are gaining access to loans, grants, and other capital that can take their companies to the next level. 

Andrew Leon Hanna and his wife, Anny Dow, grew up in immigrant families, watching their parents and grandparents launch and grow small businesses. After immigrating to the U.S. from Egypt, Hanna’s parents started a family medical practice. Dow’s grandparents, from Taiwan, ran a convenience store and a shoemaker’s shop. 

“It made a huge difference in the community and also a huge difference in my life in terms of socioeconomic mobility and opportunities,” Hanna says. “I just saw that double impact that small businesses have, both on the family of the owner and on the local community, in terms of jobs and the services and products they bring into the world.”

Read our spotlight in the full Inc. story here.