TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

But there’s one question that many startups and investors are hoping will get answered sooner rather than later: What happens to venture debt? SVB was one of the larger, if not the largest, providers of venture debt to U.S.-based “Venture debt has its advantages, more so than ever before,” Bakalar said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt, bringing its total Series F to $500 million, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

While its failure affects the accounts of startups and venture investors that banked with it, SVB’s demise also has an impact on another service startups frequently used the bank for: venture debt. SVB has long been thought of as a venture debt leader, and for many the bank’s name is synonymous with venture lending itself.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

Technical debt is no longer just a “technical” problem. The government and Congress are taking notice of unfair consumer experiences, and it is crucial for businesses to address their technical debt and minimize the risk of negative press, government fines, and damaged reputations. What is technical debt?

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 9, 2022

Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard finish their examination of the tech debt bottleneck by looking at how to get out of it. This includes close collaboration betwen product and engineering, a strategy for the four phases of a startup's journey, and empowering teams to fix the tech debt problems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

As venture capital investments slowed down in 2022 , some startups turned to private credit, including debt capital, as a way to supplement their operations in the meantime. trillion industry and accounts for 90% of all corporate debt in the middle-market. He said interest in debt capital has grown, even among non-technology companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Debt gets a bad rap. But despite its reputation, debt isn’t an act of desperation during down times. As my colleague Alex Wilhelm notes, for companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance, debt historically has been a huge asset.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Staytuned Digital has $34 million in new equity and debt to continue developing a software suite for e-commerce brands with a goal of what co-founder Serge Kassardjian described as “the Salesforce suite for e-commerce stores.” “E-commerce million in a combination of equity and debt. Tacora Capital led the debt funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Venture debt was never meant to be used to bail a company out of financial trouble. Across the industry, from founders to investors to reporters, the rhetoric among many was that we’d see a drastic rise in venture debt this year. Well, they don’t.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

A flurry of recent activity surrounding student debt repayment, including government policies, like the SECURE ACT 2.0, passed by Congress in December, created provisions for employers to match student loan payments for those with debt while also adding to retirement accounts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

adults with credit card debt increased their balances since the pandemic began in March 2020. A more recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates that total household debt in Q3 2022 reached $16.51 had a delinquent debt problem. According to a September 2021 survey from Bankrate.com, 42% of U.S.

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Martin Fowler

MARCH 8, 2022

This article, by Tim Cochran and Carl Nygard , is the first in a series that examines these bottlenecks, in this case looking at the problem of a startup accumulating technical debt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 1992, Ward Cunningham coined the metaphor “technical debt” to highlight how businesses weigh their short-term gains against the long-term viability of a software product. This roadmap shuffling and disregard for the long-term view trigger tech debt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion), opted for all debt in its latest funding round. Should an initial public offering (IPO) come to pass, as was at one point Arctic Wolf’s plan, the debt will convert to shares at a premium to the price. ” The debt brings Arctic Wolf’s total raised to $900 million, $499 million of which is venture capital.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 3, 2023

Tech debt is usually one of the most fraught topics on engineering teams. Engineers often feel they aren’t allowed enough time to address tech debt. And despite all this, many engineering leaders worry their teams may actually be under-investing in tech debt, in ways that could negatively impact the business over the long term.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

million in new debt financing. The company has gone down the debt route before — a Series F raised in 2017 combined $115 million funding with $25 million in debt. Zeta Global , the marketing technology company founded by David A. Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, is announcing an additional $222.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

And proptech startup States Title announced it has closed on $150 million in debt financing from HSCM Bermuda , which had previously invested in the company. . I was curious as to why these companies chose to go after debt/credit as opposed to raising venture capital. . Debt is finite, Simkoff said.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 16, 2024

Technical debt is a concept that refers to the accumulated cost of additional work required in the future as a result of choosing an expedient solution instead of a more robust and maintainable one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

Parker , a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million in equity and debt funding, much of which closed in 2022. In addition is $70 million in debt, comprised of venture debt from Triple Point Capital and warehouse debt from Jefferies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. In that case, you can offer investors “convertible debt.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

More debt financings means flat is the new up. Last week, I wrote about Founderpath , an Austin-based company that offers debt financing to B2B startups. A quick note about the difference between warehouse facilities and debt financings — debt is lending capital for operating reasons. Don’t borrow your own money.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A startup called Sivo wants to do for debt what Stripe did for payments: Make it as easy to access a debt facility as plugging into an API. billion in term sheets from originators who wish to leverage its debt-as-a-service offering. billion in term sheets from originators who wish to leverage its debt-as-a-service offering.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The challenge Amadeus faces isn’t uncommon: Like many companies of its size, it has to pay off massive technical debt , which is the idea that as you make certain technology decisions, you end up pushing modernization down the road, and the “interest” builds up, making it harder to modernize. Why tech debt accumulates.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Additionally, the Swedish company said that it has also secured $300 million in debt funding led by Barclays Europe, which will be used substantively to bolster its fleet of vehicles as it extends further into new and existing markets across Europe and North America. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Popular saving and investing app Acorns has acquired Pillar, an AI-powered startup built to help manage student loan debt, in its second acquisition of 2021. New York-based Pillar helps consumers optimize their debt payments by focusing first on student loans. Student loan debt is the second-largest type of consumer debt in the U.S.,

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage.

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DevOps.com

JUNE 8, 2023

Over an application’s lifetime, the app starts accumulating technical debt. At that point, innovations become […] The post Technical Debt? Something that should take two days starts taking three days and then a week. appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

CEO and co-founder Bharath Krishnamoorthy tells TechCrunch that the new cash, a combination of equity ($26 million) and debt ($100 million), will be put toward scaling the business and providing Denim’s customers with working capital. To date, the startup has raised a total of $165 million.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 25, 2024

The explosion of new AI APIs, libraries and frameworks has the potential to increase technical debt and, in the process, overwhelm DevOps teams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

million (50 billion won) in debt financing from existing investors BRV Capital Management and Skylake Incuvest. in debt financing about a month after conducting layoff by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch Green Labs , a Seoul-based agritech startup, has secured $38.4

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

million) in equity and ¥1 billion in debt. Mizuho Bank provided the debt facility. The Series D funding, which brings its total funding to date to approximately $91.7 million, consists of ¥4 billion (29.4 The startup did not disclose its valuation.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Buying into the 'next big new shiny thing' only increases your technical debt. Don MacVittie advises only buying what's necessary.

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