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Venture Debt & Debt Funding India: Complete Guide
CFO Matrix · cfomatrix.in Free Intermediate India
An India-first CFO's guide to how venture debt actually works here - who lends it, what it costs, and why it follows equity rather than replaces it. The clearest rupee-denominated primer before you take a term sheet from a debt fund.
- Venture debt is typically raised right after an equity round, not instead of one.
- Lenders underwrite against your equity investors and burn runway, not just revenue.
- Best used for a known, near-term use of cash - inventory build, marketing push - not to cover structural losses.
