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Venture Debt Scouting Report: City National Bank
City National Bank is a great group to work with. They're led by Rod Werner, who's the consummate Silicon Valley deal-maker.
Published on Fri, 9 February 2018
Venture Debt Scouting Report: Bridge Bank
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn's Venture Debt scouting report on Bridge Bank and what you should know about Bridge Bank as a Venture Debt lender.
Published on Fri, 9 February 2018
Kruze Consulting’s Role in Placing Venture Debt
All of our clients know to call us but there's a lot of people out there or a lot of startups that don't know that we do this on an ad hoc basis.
Published on Fri, 9 February 2018
Venture Debt Scouting Report: WTI
Kruze Consulting's COO, Scott Orn, talks about Western Technology Investment, their services and using them for venture debt scouting reports.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Venture Debt Scouting Report: Triplepoint
Triplepoint's a very large fund, a very aggressive lender in the venture debt marketplace.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Venture Debt Scouting Report: SVB
SVB is one of the largest players in the venture debt market. They've been servicing start-ups for many, many years.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Tax Reporting ISO and NQSO
Vanessa Kruze, Kruze Consulting's CEO, answers the yearly question of 'how does a startup report ISO and non-qualified stock options for tax purposes?'.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Section 382 Triggers
Section 382 is a part of the IRS code that was developed about 20 or 30 years ago to limit corporations' use of their net operating losses to offset profits.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
R&D Tax Credit Expense Categories
If you haven't heard, R&D tax credits have really changed dramatically over the past couple of years.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Minimum Cash Requirement in Venture Debt Deals
A minimum cash requirement is something that usually a bank will ask the company to do.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Material Adverse Change as Event of Default in Venture Debt
Material adverse change clauses, or MAC, is the one term you do not want to have on your term sheet.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Goodbye 2017, Welcome 2018!
I'm Vanessa Kruze and today I just wanted to go over with you guys a 2017 recap, as well as go over some things that are coming up for 2018.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Funding MAC (Material Adverse Change) in Venture Debt
We talked about MACs as an event of default. You definitely want to avoid those. But almost equally dangerous is the funding MAC.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
Final Payments in Venture Debt
The idea behind a final payment is that the lender will backload some of the interest.
Published on Tue, 6 February 2018
