Debt in a downturn: How to use non-dilutive funding to buy time and hit milestones

Partner message from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).

By Steve Lowry, vice president of technology banking at SVB.

With economic uncertainty at its highest levels in more than a decade, tech and life science startups need to prepare now to have enough liquidity to survive the slowdown. Equity markets have pulled back and young companies are wondering what to expect when they go out for capital this year. 

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