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For early stage, I think Earnest Capital does this but you'd have to ask Tyler.

For later stage, I would look at Timia Capital. Some of the payment processors that SaaS companies use may also have their own solutions that just look at your MRR and let you borrow an appropriate amount against that automatically.

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We are in the same ballpark but don't do revenue-based financing (ie getting repaid via taking a % of revenue). We are typically investing earlier in startups where it doesn't make sense to take money off the topline yet. (More on our model: https://earnestcapital.com/shared-earnings-agreement/).

Timia and Lighter Capital offer revenue-based debt for companies that are I believe at least at $25k-50k MRR. Clearbanc will offer RBF specifically for your paid marketing (ie FB ads) budget but doesn't fund other parts of your business.

Revenue-based or shared earning financing at first glance looks a lot like a bank loan, almost the original revenue-based financiers... the loan officer isn't going to approve the small business loan if it doesn't look like you have the revenue to pay it off, and 'return cap' is roughly kinda another way of modeling interest rate returns.

Can you talk more about revenue financing vs. bank loans? eg I assume bank loans are lower risk and often want physical assets backing the loan instead of paper equity. I'm curious how this model fits into the broader world of alternatives-to-VC-financing.

I don't have any experience with either of these, but for later stage, these are well known:

https://www.saas-capital.com/

https://www.lightercapital.com/

Both do variations on https://www.saas-capital.com/blog/funding-properties-mrr-cre....

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