Western Technology Investment

Swiftly quickly gets brick-and-mortar stores set up to cater to online customers

Swiftly provides the technology tools that democratize the technology lead, enjoyed by Amazon and Walmart, to the rest of the industry.

Pixalate tunes into $18.1M for fraud prevention in television, mobile advertising

Pixalate provides fraud protection, privacy and compliance analytics for connected television and mobile advertising.

Venture debt’s new reality: ‘The last thing we want is management walking away from a company’

Maurice Werdegar is the longtime CEO of venture debt shop Western Technology Investment, one of the most active venture debt lenders in the U.S. It’s also one of the older firms, having loaned o

San Diego’s Trust & Will raises $6 million for online estate planning

Estate planning in the U.S. is a $180 billion industry and, unlike many of the other areas in the multitrillion-dollar financial services market, it’s one that has yet to see a slew of technolog

Yep, more later-stage companies are taking on venture debt

Venture debt has been much in the news lately. Are desperate times beginning to call for desperate measures? That might be an overstatement. At the same time, the venture debt firm Western Technology

Subscription Flight Service Beacon Lands $7.5M In Series A Funding

Beacon, a subscription flight service founded by former Surf Air CEO Wade Eyerly (and two other Surf Air Co-founders), announced that the company has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The rou

BlazeMeter Secures $6.5 Million in Financing Led By YL Ventures

<a target="_blank" href="http://blazemeter.com">BlazeMeter</a>, which provides the JMeter-based performance testing cloud, has secured $6.5 million in a series A financing round led by YL Ventures, a