Exclusive: Fintech Offers Startups Alternative To Venture Debt With A New Model To Finance Customer Acquisition Costs
View original at news.crunchbase.comCrunchbase News - Funding Ma Title: Exclusive: Fintech Offers Startups Alternative To Venture Debt With A New Model To Finance Customer Acquisition Costs Date: 2026-09-17 14:00 Source: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-alternative-funding-customer-acquisition-skalar/ <p>Technology companies routinely spend he…
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Venture capital only serves the top 1% of tech businesses; more than half of the remaining 99% could potentially be underwritten by Skalar's product, which currently lack access to capital.
60% confidenceSkalar has become expert at understanding which customer acquisition risks are sufficiently predictable and profitable to be underwritable.
60% confidenceCapital flowing into and out of the growth stage has left strong-performing Latin American companies struggling to raise the equity needed to keep growing; Skalar fills that gap.
60% confidenceSkalar only gets repaid as the financed companies get repaid by their customers.
60% confidenceMonashees does not have access to the confidential operating data that startups provide to Skalar during its evaluation process.
60% confidenceThe best companies match capital sources to uses: equity for unstructured R&D bets, duration-matched capital for predictable investments like customer acquisition; most Latin American tech companies have never had that choice until Skalar.
60% confidenceSkalar's structure is different because it absorbs most downside risk, which incentivizes it to avoid burdening client companies with credit risk.
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