Jonathan Hollis

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Jonathan Hollis · Follow Published in Mountside Ventures · 12 min read · -- Fundraising is hard. Hard for founders. Even harder for VCs. There is a vacuum of fundraising support for emerging VCs, who are the future of the industry. Compared to larger brands, they can provide greater speed, value-add, optionality and returns.

In the landscape of business financing, traditional methods such as loans and equity investments have long been the go-to options. Revenue-based finance (RBF) in some form, has been around for decades and has historically been used by the oil & natural gas, pharmaceutical and movie production industries.