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We Lightspeed are thrilled to have led the Seed financing for Noetica.ai which is transforming the corporate debt market by leveraging AI. Here's a great write up by Bloomberg news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p… Global corporate credit is among the largest capital markets

Achievement unlocked. Matt Levine covering our Noetica AI seed investment in his daily MoneyStuff newsletter // Sam Eisler This is my version of scoring tickets to The Eras Tour. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Thanks for the feature today Matt Levine Great read! bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

After leading their seed round, we are excited to announce that we are now leading the $22M Series A financing in Noetica AI. Data and insights are essential in capital markets deals in order to understand market terms and drive value for market participants. Noetica AI has

We’re proud to see several Lightspeed portfolio companies named to this year’s CB Insights AI 100 list: @Cartesia, @Chainguard_dev, @EveLegalAI, @Fiddler_AI, Helsing, Noetica AI, PatronusAI, and Saronic. Now in its ninth year, the AI 100 celebrates the top emerging AI

Grateful to be named to CB Insights Top 100 AI Startups list. cbinsights.com/research/repor… #AIinFinance #transactions

When deal terms shift, dealmakers rarely send a press release. But the smart money tracks the signals anyway. Thomson Reuters featured Noetica’s latest report on where credit markets are actually moving — not the headline noise, but the fine print 🧠🔎 legal.thomsonreuters.com/blog/benchmark…

You buy a nice front door lock… then someone climbs out the window with your collateral 😬 Only 12% of credit agreements block both IP transfers and sub shuffles. That’s how J.Crew-style asset leakage still happens in 2025. Billions at risk. More here: substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/danwe…

If Thibs secretly bet on the Boston Celtics, would you trust him to draw up the final play? 🏀 That’s basically what Windstream “net short” terms try to prevent. They vanished last year. Now they’re back...in only 8% of deals. More here: substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/danwe… #privatecredit

Got a speeding ticket months after driving 6 MPH over? Turns out credit docs have a term for that: temporal limits on defaults. They’re showing up in 16% of deals—because nobody wants a lender saying, “Remember that covenant breach in 2022? We do.” 👉substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/danwe…

Companies are getting better at financial magic. 🪄 In Q1 ’25, EBITDA add-backs dropped to 37% of deals (from 55% in Q4). One quarter’s illusion is the next’s reality. In leveraged finance, timing isn’t luck—it’s leverage. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/danwe…

Got a speeding ticket months after driving 6 MPH over? Turns out credit docs have a term for that: temporal limits on defaults. They’re showing up in 16% of deals—because nobody wants a lender saying, “Remember that covenant breach in 2022? We do.” 👉substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/danwe…

In 2020, Citi wired $900M to Revlon lenders by accident. Some kept it. 💸 Now 88% of credit deals include “erroneous payment” clauses—a contractual Ctrl+Z. Because in markets, you can engineer around risk, but not fat fingers. Those need a failsafe. 👉substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/danwe…

Exciting to see a fellow capital markets enthusiast Bloomberg's Matt Levine cite Noetica in unearthing the importance of Superior’s latest credit deal terms Oaktree and other lenders are re-defining credit terms amidst tariff and macroeconomic uncertainty At Noetica, our