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Venture Debt Scouting Report: Comerica
Comerica is a huge venture lending firm, they've been doing it for a very long time, dating all the way back to when they acquired Imperial Bank.
Published on Fri, 9 February 2018
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
Placing Venture Debt: Kruze Consulting’s Role and What Startups Need to Know
Leverage venture debt with Kruze's support, from financial prep to lender introductions, ensuring strategic, non-dilutive funding for VC-backed startups.
Published on Fri, 9 February 2018
Year-End Tax Reporting For ISOs and NQSOs
Navigate year-end tax reporting for Incentive Stock Options (ISOs) and Non-Qualified Stock Options (NQSOs) with this guide, covering forms like 3921 and 1099-MISC.
Published on Tue, 6 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
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
Watch Out for Material Adverse Change (MAC) Clauses 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
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
