4 Entrepreneurs on How Revenue-Based VCs Supercharged Their Growth

Tristan Pollock
8 min readJan 13, 2020

RBF or Revenue-Based Financing is quickly integrating into the world of venture capital, and it’s working.

While revenue-based financing (RBF) might not yet have the name recognition of venture capital or angel investing, it is quickly becoming a powerful growth engine for diverse and innovative companies. This flexible, scalable, and easily accessed capital is a new and nimble form of growth funding that is fueling how companies scale across industries.

To examine how revenue-based financing helps companies grow without the drawbacks of other forms of funding, you can analyze the stories of three entrepreneurs who leaned on this funding model to grow. Without sacrificing equity or company control, and without being forced into onerous repayment schedules, they received the growth capital they needed to invest in critical areas of their business and kick start a new round of impressive growth.

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Tristan Pollock

Movement Builder ||| Founding Partner @CoolClimateFund ||| Alum @500GlobalVC @Google @TheEdenDAO @Terradotdo #ODCT