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Lending to venture-backed companies that underwrites investor sponsorship, runway and equity value rather than profits or hard collateral.
Quartermaster raised $140 million, a $100 million Series B led by Insight Partners plus $40 million of debt, to put sensors on ships' masts. Its case is that insurers will return to routes such as Hormuz once they can see where ships really are.
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The New York fintech launched Thursday having committed more than $125 million of sales and marketing spending across seven technology companies, repayable only out of the revenue those customers produce.
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The Saudi building materials platform's $31m arrives as $13m of Series B equity from Wa'ed Ventures and 500 Global plus $18m of debt from Stride Ventures, committed to working capital and customer payment terms.
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The firm's case rests on one comparison, that Microsoft's founders held almost four-fifths of their company at IPO while most founders now hold under a fifth.
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European defence startups can raise equity on policy intent. J.P. Morgan's bankers say the borrowing that funds production needs signed multi-year contracts from ministries that still buy one country at a time.
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Only $90M of the $220M raise is equity. The $130M of borrowing from VerisFi Capital and Atempo Growth is a claim about how predictable revenue already looks in a market still booked by fax.
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The October rollout renames Innovation Banking, Fund Banking and SVB Go, promises that routing numbers and passwords are untouched, and says nothing at all about the advance rates or covenants operators hoped to read in it.
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