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In earlier articles in this series (see here) we looked at the key role of venture capital funds, the reasons and setbacks associated with startups’ exclusive dependence on equity rounds, together with the advantages that debt would have for them. We also determined that this is a promising environment for borrowing. Then we looked at the difficulty with providing general recipes for raising debt finance and a few routes that do not seem very promising for startups, such as commercial banks and their ordinary channels and conventional bond issues. In our latest article we explored venture debt as a suitable debt financing mechanism for startups. And here we analyze the importance of security interests and of thinking up ways to use new intangibles.

In the previous article in this series, we explained, in relation to the necessary and very positive contribution that venture capital funds make to the ecosystem, a few setbacks associated with startups’ exclusive dependence on equity rounds, especially for their founders, and how increasing their debt levels could counter those setbacks. In this new article, we look at the advantages of debt, the opportunity afforded by the current environment and study a few first and hypothetical routes to get debt financing.

Supreme Court concludes that all these concepts must be used for their intended purposes when they were created, observing the procedures specifically defined for each.

Searching for additional financing routes, in the form of debt rather than equity, could benefit startup founders by curtailing their dilution in equity rounds and also have other advantages for the companies themselves. This would contribute to encouraging more young entrepreneurs to start and carry on with their projects and would also benefit venture capital funds, key and irreplaceable players, in that they would have more and stronger investment opportunities.