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Understanding Revenue-Based Financing and How It Works

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A clean, India-framed explainer of the mechanics with a worked example in rupees: at Rs 50 lakh monthly revenue you repay Rs 4 lakh, and if revenue drops to Rs 25 lakh the repayment halves to Rs 2 lakh, which is exactly the flex that makes RBF safer than fixed EMI debt. It lays out the five-step flow (application, revenue assessment, offer, disbursement, revenue-linked repayment), states the total is capped at a predefined multiple (1.3x to 2x), and puts RBF in a table against VC, angels, bank loans, and venture debt so you can see where it wins and where it does not.

  • Repayments scale down automatically when revenue dips, so RBF absorbs a bad month in a way a fixed-EMI loan cannot
  • Total cost is a hard multiple of capital (1.3x to 2x), not an open-ended interest meter, so you know the ceiling upfront
  • It is built for predictable-revenue SaaS, D2C, and marketplaces, and explicitly wrong for pre-revenue or lumpy-income businesses
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The question it answers

  1. What is revenue-based financing, and when is it a smarter non-dilutive option than a grant or a round?

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