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    • Apr 21, 2022
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Market Sizing: Spinta's Version

Updated: Apr 25, 2022

According to Pitchbook data, the venture debt market comprised a whopping $58B of new loan commitments in 2021.


But...in our view this is very much a headline analysis, with little context on underlying market segmentation.


The data may also inflate market size given one-off loans to unicorns and large SPAC bridge loans during the pandemic.


Here is a more nuanced infographic of market size, "Spinta's Version", with a bottoms-up build of total AUM of the venture debt and growth debt market, segmented by:

  • banks vs non-banks

  • pure-play venture vs crossover participants

  • tech vs software vs life sciences

  • other emerging structures and sub-segments

Enjoy...




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