Venture Lending & Leasing

Venture Lending & Leasing is a specialized venture debt provider offering equipment financing, growth capital loans, and other non-dilutive debt financing to venture-backed technology and life science companies that are seeking to fund equipment purchases, operational expansion, and bridge financing between equity rounds without issuing additional equity that dilutes founders and investors. A subsidiary of Western Technology Investment — one of the most experienced venture lending organizations in Silicon Valley — Venture Lending & Leasing provides equipment leasing and term loans to growth-stage companies across software, hardware, medical devices, biotech, cleantech, and other venture capital-backed innovation sectors. According to its website at westerntech.com, Venture Lending & Leasing has provided billions of dollars of venture lending to hundreds of innovative companies since its founding in 1969.

Venture Lending & Leasing's financing products, described at westerntech.com, include equipment financing for laboratory instruments, server infrastructure, manufacturing equipment, and other capital equipment needs of venture-backed companies — enabling growth-stage companies to acquire the equipment required for their operations without drawing down the equity capital that fuels their core business development; and growth capital term loans providing working capital and operational funding that extends the runway of portfolio companies between equity fundraising rounds. The venture debt approach benefits companies by providing access to capital without the equity dilution of another funding round, while providing Venture Lending & Leasing with interest and fee income plus warrant coverage — small equity stakes in each borrower — that provide additional return if the company succeeds and appreciates in value.

Venture Lending & Leasing's connection to Western Technology Investment — a leading Silicon Valley venture lending institution with deep relationships across the venture capital ecosystem — provides it with access to a proprietary pipeline of high-quality venture-backed borrowers from the portfolios of established venture capital investors. According to westerntech.com, the firm's long Silicon Valley presence and venture lending expertise enable it to serve as a trusted debt capital partner for the most innovative venture-backed companies across the technology and life science sectors. Venture Lending & Leasing's combination of equipment financing, growth capital lending, venture-backed company focus, warrant coverage upside participation, Silicon Valley heritage, and WTI institutional backing establishes it as one of the most experienced and trusted venture debt providers in the technology and life science startup ecosystem.