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Bluegrass Vascular Closes $5M in Convertible Debt Financing
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Bluegrass Vascular Closes $5M in Convertible Debt Financing

Bluegrass Vascular Technologies has closed $5 million in convertible debt financing for its innovation, the Surfacer Inside-Out Access Catheter System. Convertible debt notes enable a startup without a valuation to raise capital quickly and less expensively than equity as an alternative to a conventional bank loan.Funding will go toward the commercial expansion of Bluegrass Vascular’s Surfacer System, the first FDA-cleared medical device that facilitates access to obstructed central veins in a patient's upper body.The Surfacer System helps facilitate catheter insertion into the central venous system for patients with upper body venous obstructions or other conditions that prevent central venous access using conventional methods. Bluegrass' innovation meets an unmet cl...
New fintech startup RocketOption helps founders get financing faster
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New fintech startup RocketOption helps founders get financing faster

Serial entrepreneur and startup founder Matt Wilbanks has launched RocketOption, a fintech company that gives business owners a fast way to get debt financing options.RocketOption uses your business metrics — revenue, cost of supporting the product, how fast the company is growing — and matches you with lenders interested in financing a startup."There is a new category of lender that have evolved from the venture capital world," Wilbanks said. "Many don’t take equity in the startups they lend to and they provide loans based on the recurring revenue a startup is generating."Software as a Service or SaaS startups can generate millions in revenue but have little in tangible collateral. To address this financing need, venture lenders who issue revenue-based loans have emerg...