Venture debt acts as a bridge between funding stages for tech startups, global study finds
Jun 23, 2026
A new international study has found that venture debt is reshaping how capital moves through technology startup ecosystems around the world. Analyzing data from 59 countries between 2015 and 2024, the researchers show that greater venture debt availability is associated with lower early-stage equity
funding, higher late-stage equity funding, and a positive overall effect on the total capital available to startups. ...read more read less