Bonside

Bonside

Revenue-based growth capital for brick-and-mortar retailers

Overview

Bonside provides growth capital to brick-and-mortar businesses, especially in healthcare, beauty, wellness, food and beverage, and medical care, helping them grow without giving up equity. It uses a Repeatable Revenue Agreement (RRA), a financing instrument that offers capital advances without guarantees, collateral, or spending restrictions, and with repayment tied to monthly revenues. This means payments rise and fall with the business’s revenue, and the capital is repaid based on seasonal and operational performance rather than a fixed schedule. Compared with typical lenders, Bonside is different because it aligns repayment with actual business performance, avoiding equity dilution and rigid terms while serving multi-location businesses. The company’s goal is to support growth for brick-and-mortar stores by providing flexible capital and actionable insights that match their revenue cycles.

About Bonside

Simplify's Rating
Why Bonside is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Fintech

Financial Services

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$4.9M

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • i80 Group added $100 million in November 2025, expanding funding capacity immediately.
  • Kimco and Nuveen invested in May 2025, validating Bonside with major property owners.
  • Bonside claims 50 investments, zero defaults, and returns above multi-year targets by November 2025.

What critics are saying

  • Bonside's business depends on continuous accounting-data access; any platform lockout breaks underwriting.
  • Zero defaults across 50 investments is too small; one bad cycle can crush returns.
  • If Kimco, Nuveen, or i80 Group lose confidence, Bonside's financing engine stalls fast.

What makes Bonside unique

  • Bonside's May 2025 Scorecard standardizes non-credit retail underwriting for landlords like Kimco.
  • Its Repeatable Revenue Agreement ties repayment to monthly revenue, matching brick-and-mortar seasonality.
  • By November 2025, Bonside paired capital with underwriting, reaching over $130 million available.

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Funding

Total Funding

$4.8M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Hybrid Work Options

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-6%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-6%
PR Newswire
Nov 13th, 2025
Bonside Secures $100M for Growth Expansion

Bonside has announced a $100 million strategic partnership with i80 Group to boost funding for brick-and-mortar businesses. This collaboration will utilize Bonside's AI-powered Repeatable Revenue Agreement (RRA) to provide efficient financing for service-based physical businesses. The RRA uses a Scorecard system to analyze business data, offering a universal credit language for non-public brands.

Yahoo Finance
Nov 13th, 2025
Bonside Furthers Brick-and-Mortar Growth with $100M i80 Group Capital Partnership

Bonside furthers brick-and-mortar growth with $100M i80 Group capital partnership. i80 Group, the global credit platform and private investment firm, will partner with Bonside to provide growth capital to the brick-and-mortar industry, leveraging Bonside's financial technology NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Bonside, a brick-and-mortar credit platform, announces a $100M strategic partnership with i80 Group, a private investment firm. This partnership will accelerate funding to growing service-based physical businesses via Bonside's Repeatable Revenue Agreement (RRA). Dylan Mark, SVP at i80 Group, said "high quality brick-and-mortar businesses lack access to efficient financing for new location growth. Bonside has developed an innovative capital and technology product to underwrite the nuances of the sector. We are excited to be supporting Bonside's expansion." The RRA is enabled by AI-powered technology that analyzes brick-and-mortar data to build credit views for businesses. Through accounting system connectivity, historical data is standardized into the Bonside Scorecard - a dashboard featuring a quadrant assessment populated from 20+ weighted, industry-tailored metrics, alongside an operational and financial overview. Bonside can create a Scorecard for any retail tenant, from single-unit operators to national chains, establishing a universal credit language for non-public brands. To date, all of Bonside's 50 investments have been driven by Scorecards, with portfolio performance delivering zero defaults and exceeding multi-year return targets. This strategic partnership with i80 Group brings Bonside's total available capital to over $130 million and will further enable funding reach and frequency. The Bonside Scorecard delivers much-needed transparency that benefits the broader brick-and-mortar ecosystem, in addition to unlocking capital for new location growth. Through platform-embedded functionality brands can share credit outputs with property managers and landlords for prospective retail spaces - further reducing transaction costs and barriers to growth for the industry Neha Govindraj, Founder of Bonside, said "In building an industry-specific credit platform, we are elevating a meaningful part of the economy: the physical world. This capital partnership with i80 Group is in service to that mission. Through innovative applications, we are creating foundational infrastructure for brick-and-mortar, bringing together businesses, providers, and capital markets." About Bonside Bonside is a brick-and-mortar credit platform based in NYC. It publicly launched in June of 2023, to provide intelligence and capital to concepts, at scale. In May of 2025 Bonside also announced strategic equity partnerships with real estate investment trust Kimco Realty and global investment manager Nuveen Real Estate.

PR Newswire
May 18th, 2025
Bonside Scorecard Launches Alongside Strategic Partnership With Kimco Realty And Nuveen Real Estate

This partnership will support the launch of Bonside's forthcoming proprietary underwriting toolNEW YORK, May 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bonside , a technology company that provides financial underwriting and funding to brick-and-mortar businesses, announces a strategic partnership with leading real estate investment trust Kimco Realty and global investment manager Nuveen Real Estate. As part of this partnership, both firms made equity investments in Bonside and will be among the first users of the company's new proprietary underwriting product, the Bonside Scorecard, designed to help commercial landlords more efficiently assess the creditworthiness and risk of new and existing non-credit retail tenants.The Bonside Scorecard brings much-needed standardization to how commercial landlords evaluate the financial and operational health of retail tenants. Built on the same underwriting process that drives Bonside's own investment decisions, and 37 transactions to date, the tool enables landlords to quickly and effectively assess tenant performance via accounting software data.At the nucleus of Bonside is the ability to analyze, standardize and capitalize the rise of non-credit retail. By emphasizing the fundamentals of physical retail, Bonside serves the category with specificity — weighing metrics like 4-wall EBITDA, COGS, labor ratios, and 20+ other industry-specific metrics to bring purpose-built underwriting and an investment-grade mentality to the brick-and-mortar economy. For landlords, this means streamlining and standardizing the tenant diligence process and holistic risk assessments at the property and portfolio level. For tenants, it removes friction and inconsistency, allowing rising concepts to compete for sought-after spaces and sign leases without manual effort.This partnership marks a major milestone in Bonside's growth and furthers its mission to define, and service, the brick-and-mortar economy

Finance Info
Oct 28th, 2023
Bonside raises $5M to finance brick-and-mortar stores

Bonside raises $5M to finance brick-and-mortar stores.

TechCrunch
Jun 7th, 2023
Bonside Launches With $4.35M To Provide Growth Capital To Brick-And-Mortar Businesses

Online shopping is typically where much of the commerce financing has focused on over the past three years. However, during this time, some retailers that started in e-commerce are diversifying and going the brick-and-mortar route. That’s probably because 54% of consumers still prefer to go into a physical store.Like other businesses, they need money for a shop, but finding financing isn’t easy. Banks have been slow to offer better growth capital options, while some startups — such as Onramp Funds — focus on e-commerce. And venture capital isn’t for every business.Enter Bonside, a financing platform designed for brick-and-mortar businesses that provides growth financing through revenue. Today, the company launched out of beta with an equity financing round of $4.35 million from a group of investors, led by Floating Point, that also includes 81 Collection, TMV and Philz Coffee’s Jacob Jaber.“Venture capital is a beautiful instrument for tech businesses or businesses seeking some form of hockey stick growth, but it’s less transferable if you’re going after a slightly more linear growth or not a software play,” Bonside founder and CEO Neha Govindraj told TechCrunch

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