Why startups are raising more venture debt as VC dollars near all-time records

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.As I write to you,
money into the sector
But despite it appearing to be an incredibly good time to raise equity funding, venture debt and revenue-based financing appear to be having
a moment.So why are more folks talking about and raising debt to help power their startups, even when valuations are high and there is a lot
going to discuss is directional and probably pretty accurate, which is just fine for what we want to do today: detail a general trend of
totals of domestic venture debt volumes for the past half-decade: