James Beauregard
Executive Vice President
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- Full Name
- James L. Beauregard, CFA
- Title
- Executive Vice President & Chief Credit Officer
- Firm
- Boston Financial & Equity Corporation (BF&EC / "Boston Financial")
- Firm Type
- Venture equipment leasing / venture debt firm — finances angel- and VC-backed startups (not a traditional equity angel investor)
- Investment Stage
- Early stage — seed-stage and emerging-growth companies that have raised at least one round of equity
- Check Size
- Equipment leases historically in the ~$250,000–$800,000 range (e.g., a documented $725,000 equipment lease); master lease agreements with terms up to ~36 months
- Target Company Profile
- Angel- and venture-backed start-ups, emerging-growth companies, and turnarounds with a strong value proposition and a quality management team that need to finance essential capital equipment
- Sector Focus
- Sector-agnostic across sciences (biotech/biopharma/life sciences), technology/software, advanced manufacturing/robotics, and energy
- Geographic Focus
- Massachusetts, New England, the Northeast, and the entire U.S.
- Location
- Brookline, Massachusetts (1330 Beacon Street, Suite 249)
Background
James L. Beauregard is Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer of Boston Financial & Equity Corporation, a Brookline, Massachusetts firm founded in 1968 that specializes in leasing capital equipment to early-stage, venture- and angel-backed companies. He has managed financing projects at the firm since 1991, working closely with clients across the technology, biotechnology, and manufacturing sectors and playing a central role in the company's in-house credit decisions.
Before joining Boston Financial, Beauregard worked as an Equity Specialist at the Boston Stock Exchange from 1987 to 1991. He earned both a BS in Finance and an MBA in Finance from Suffolk University (Sawyer Business School) in Boston, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
At Boston Financial he is part of a small, tenured leadership team led by President & CEO Debbie Monosson (with the firm since 2000), alongside CFO & Treasurer David Boyajian and VP of Contracts Vallerie Gamble. The firm has provided equipment financing to more than 1,500 young companies over its 55-plus-year history. Outside of work, Beauregard is an avid outdoorsman who has completed the Boston Marathon four times and summited all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000-foot peaks.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Provides equipment lease financing (a form of venture debt), not equity — the firm helps startups acquire essential equipment while preserving cash and extending their equity runway.
- Backs early-stage companies that have already raised at least one round of equity from angel or venture investors; comfortable underwriting "high-risk" credits that banks typically avoid.
- Sector-agnostic — works "across all industries from sciences to technology and manufacturing," including biotech, life sciences, software/cloud, robotics, advanced materials, and energy.
- Founder-friendly structure: no warrants and no personal guarantees required, a rare stance in venture leasing.
- Direct funder — all credit decisions are made in-house and the firm holds all of its own paper, allowing a customized, flexible deal structure.
- Value proposition to founders: leasing "preserves cash, provides a longer equity capital runway, and hedges equipment obsolescence."
Notable Investments
- Ginkgo Bioworks — synthetic biology platform (later public via SPAC).
- Google — leased equipment in its early days.
- Twitter — social media platform.
- DigitalOcean — cloud infrastructure provider (later public).
- KBI Biopharma — contract biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing.
- TMRW Life Sciences — automated cryomanagement for IVF/life sciences.
- NanoSteel — advanced steel/materials manufacturer.
- Dexai Robotics — food-service robotics.
- ClearMotion — automotive motion-control technology.
- Our Next Energy (ONE) — battery/energy storage.
- Mitra Chem — battery materials / energy chemistry.
- Vapps — acquired by Citrix Online; co-founder Ben Lilienthal called the partnership "instrumental to the success of our start-up."
- Mojo Motors — automotive tech, acquired by Carfax.
- LensGen — ophthalmic medical devices in FDA clinical trials.
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