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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

For early stage companies, lenders are mostly underwriting based on existing investor support; with later-stage companies, they are underwriting to enterprise value and are more focused on company KPIs, churn, and related metrics. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g., Cooley, Goodwin, Gunderson Dettmer, or Wilson, etc.)

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. CFOs can build operating forecasts and multi-year plans, create financial models and scenario analyses, establish financial discipline, and create a culture of accountability. Are customers churning? Customer Health.