Cole Harmonson

Co-Founder + CEO, Dare Capital

Cole Harmonson has been in the AR factoring and asset-based lending space his entire career, starting in commercial banking in El Paso, Texas in 1994. In 1996, Cole started State Bank’s working capital finance business, which was sold in 2006. In 2007, Cole co-founded Far West Capital, an independent AR Factoring and ABL company that was sold to Central Bank in Houston in 2018. Cole is CEO of Dare Capital in Austin, which was co-founded in 2019 with industry veteran Debra Zukonik.

Cole currently serves as president of the commercial factoring nonprofit organization, the American Factoring Association, and has been a board member since 2009.