Debt Financing Options for Early Stage Business w/ Meaningful Inventory

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by an investor from Harvard University - Harvard Business School
in San Francisco, CA, USA

9mos ago

Debt Financing Options for Early Stage Business w/ Meaningful Inventory

A friend of mine runs an early stage business (cash flow negative) that has meaningful inventory (~$1 million) in the form of carbon credits. He's look for debt financing options. Does anyone have good ideas / contacts for him?

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reply by an intermediary 8mos ago
from Rochester Institute of Technology in Toronto, ON, Canada

Oh, this is an interesting problem. I wondered if factoring companies would buy these, so I did a little bit of googling, and of course, there are carbon trading platforms. Have you looked into those?

reply by a lender 8mos ago
from Clemson University in Reston, VA, USA

The problem with carbon credits is that there isn't a market except in CA in the US that will buy them at a pre determind price, so the value is not verifiable. If you do have them, banks will require some sort of A/R aging that has a buyer contract where they can put an assignment on the contract. However, this is an intangible asset that probably won't get more than 35% ltv credit on a borrowing base. Are they installing renewable energy and selling their renewable energy credits?