A New Environment for Venture Capital and Startup Fundraising
The chasm between 2021 and 2022 involves much more than our collective response to Covid. In their quest to secure financing, burgeoning...
How to Navigate a Shifting Funding Market: Tips from a VC
As you are aware, the startup funding landscape has been changing over the past several months. Rather than funding growth at any cost,...
The Role of Data in Venture Capital and Revenue-Based Financing
Data matters at Lighter Capital. It’s the primary tool we use to make financing decisions. Data matters to venture capitalists (VCs) as...
How Revenue-Based Financing and Venture Capital Funding Work Together
As Chief Credit Officer at Lighter Capital, I work behind the scenes grappling with the data that informs all of our decision-making...
SaaS Finance 101: Funding for Startups That Are ‘Non-VC-Compatible’
While getting VC funding has long been touted as the ultimate goal — and a mark of pride — for tech startups, founders are increasingly...
How to Raise a Series A Round from Venture Capital Investors
There comes a time in a startups journey to success when entrepreneurs need to raise their first round of growth capital. Previously, I...
Startup Financing: When to Bootstrap vs. Raise Equity
There are many ways to create a successful business. Even though the obsession with venture capital funding dominates the SaaS community,...
6 Reasons Venture Funding Isn’t Always the Best Goal
Venture capital funding is to tech startups what the Wizard of Oz is to Dorothy — a longed-for solution to a central problem, imbued with...
5 Reasons Why SaaS Entrepreneurs Should Think Twice About VC
As a SaaS entrepreneur, you’ve surely thought about the possibility of getting venture capital (VC) money to turbo-charge your business...
8 Tips for Pitching Startup Investors
Scoring capital for your early-stage company can feel like winning the lottery—it can seem more about luck than skill. VCs and other...
4 Startup Milestones to Reach Before Raising Series A
While seed funding is more abundant than ever (the number of seed-funded companies has quadrupled in the last four years), Series A...
Lighter Capital Client Nuvolo Raises $10M in Venture Capital
As reported by VentureBeat, Nuvolo, a provider of asset management software to life sciences organizations and pharmaceutical companies,...
Exploring Venture Debt: Benefits, Risks, and Tradeoffs
Everybody knows what venture capital is, but many entrepreneurs are fuzzier about its loan-based cousin, venture debt. Venture debt has...
How Venture Capital Is Like a Hamster Wheel
Entrepreneurs fighting to reach $1M in annual revenue have a one-track mind. Ask one how they plan to raise capital to meet their sales...
Fundraising Etiquette: How to Land a VC Introduction
In the fundraising world, personal introductions and referrals are king. Word-of-mouth is still one of the most common ways deals get...
Why VCs Only Invest in C Corporations
In the very early stages of your company, you need to make a key decision: What type of business entity to form. Will you be an LLC (a...
Beyond Sand Hill Road: Can Debt Be Growth Capital?
Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California is the epicenter of VC. While many tech founders dream of scoring a deal with one of...
Take the Money or Run? 3 Reasons to (and Not To) Take VC Money
When your company is poised for exponential growth, you may have a shot at convincing venture capitalists to take a gamble on you, your...
Funding Roundtable Q&A: Investors Share What It Takes to Raise Capital
Last week, we co-hosted a webinar with VentureBeat that took a deep dive into funding options for tech companies at different stages of...
6 Questions VCs Ask Themselves Before They Invest
I recently attended a VC panel discussion, along with tech entrepreneurs who had gathered at the Impact HUB in Seattle to hear from three...
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