Business Financing
Financing for business is huge business. But it’s a large marketplace. There are small business SBA loans for $10,000 all the way up to Venture funding for businesses in the 20+ million dollar range.
Getting financing for a franchise is a common type of business financing transaction. Banks are usually much more likely to fund an acquisition of a franchise over just about any other business acquisition transaction. Franchise financing is very common.
Financing a startup is often done with bootstrap money (business credit cards, cash, personal funds, etc), then maybe an angel round of financing is done, followed by a Venture series A, B, and so on.