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Gandhi: Western venture debt accounts for 10% to 12% of startup funding

Ishpreet Gandhi · Ishpreet Gandhi, Stride Ventures on the emerging role of Venture Debt in the startup Ecosystem · Jul 6, 2020 · at 29:54

Ishpreet Gandhi, founder of Stride Ventures, compares the penetration rate of venture debt in mature Western startup ecosystems with India's emerging market.

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“If you look at West it's a, It has, like, 10 to 12% of the market cap to venture debt in terms of funding a lot of companies.”

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In Western startup markets, venture debt accounts for roughly 10% to 12% of total venture funding.

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Assessment

Industry reports and venture market analyses around 2020 substantiate that venture debt represented roughly 10% to 15% of total venture capital funding in Western markets. PitchBook reported that from 2014 to 2019, U.S. venture debt consistently accounted for 10% to 15% of total VC invested. Deloitte and Western Technology Investment benchmarked U.S. venture debt at roughly 10% of total venture funding around 2017–2020, while Atomico's State of European Tech reports similarly placed European venture debt at approximately 10% to 12.7% of total startup capital raised.

PitchBook (August 2020) reported that U.S. venture debt consistently represented 10% to 15% of total VC invested between 2014 and 2019.
Deloitte (2023) and Western Technology Investment (2018) noted venture debt comprised approximately 10% of total U.S. venture funding entering the 2017–2020 period.
Atomico's State of European Tech found venture debt accounted for roughly 10% to 12.7% of total startup funding in European markets.

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[1] privatedebtinvestor.com [2] allocate.co [3] deloitte.com [4] forbes.com [5] bluevaultpartners.com [6] bluevaultpartners.com [7] angelspartners.com [8] bankwithstifel.com

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