
Kai Tse
Kai is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner with Structural Capital and has excelled for over 20 years as an entrepreneur in Financial Services and brings substantial lending and investing experience. As a Co-Founder of Structural Capital, Kai is heavily involved in all aspects of the firm including setting and executing the investment strategy, marketing and capital raising, and hiring key members of the firm from its inception. While at Structural, Kai has invested in and assisted various portfolio companies with capital raising, business development, corporate strategy, and recruiting. Some of the successful portfolio companies Kai has been involved with include Beyond Meat, Beauty Counter, Epic Creations, IMVU, InMobi, Kilopass Semiconductor, Sunfed Ranch, Ephesoft, BYJU’s, Noom, and Manscaped.
Kai is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner with Structural Capital and has excelled for over 20 years as an entrepreneur in Financial Services and brings substantial lending and investing experience. As a Co-Founder of Structural Capital, Kai is heavily involved in all aspects of the firm including setting and executing the investment strategy, marketing and capital raising, and hiring key members of the firm from its inception. While at Structural, Kai has invested in and assisted various portfolio companies with capital raising, business development, corporate strategy, and recruiting. Some of the successful portfolio companies Kai has been involved with include Beyond Meat, Beauty Counter, Epic Creations, IMVU, InMobi, Kilopass Semiconductor, Sunfed Ranch, Ephesoft, BYJU’s, Noom, and Manscaped.
Prior to Structural Capital, Kai was a Managing Director at TriplePoint Capital, a leading venture debt firm in Silicon Valley, where he was instrumental in building and launching the firm. TriplePoint Capital was involved (in many cases with Kai as lead investor) in financing the growth of breakout companies such as Facebook, YouTube, Riot Games, Gaikai, Ruckus Wireless, Beyond Meat and Krux, among others. Kai joined TriplePoint Capital in 2005 as a key initial hire shortly after its Founding.
April 10, 2025
Timing Considerations: Raising Debt Alongside Equity, Raising Between Rounds, Raising to Fund an Acquisition – and the Unique Considerations of Each Approach
• Value proposition of debt versus equity – various stages of growth
• Cost of capital in flat, rising or struggling valuation environments
• Control and structural considerations alongside or following an equity round
• Assessing the accretive nature of acquisition targets and forecasting financial impact
• Parameters on acquisition advances (fully committed v. fully discretionary or hybrid)
• Who has the negotiating leverage and when (company v. lender) – what creates the negotiating advantages?
• Syndicate and board strength – measuring risk as to future capital raise challenges and ability to support M&A strategies
Wednesday March 6, 2024
VC Debt Lending: How It Is Filling the Funding Gaps in the Equity and Bank Lending Markets
- What are funding gaps, and how do companies fill them?
- VC Debt lending provides essential funds in equity and bank lending markets
- Tapping into the possibilities for growth and revenue
Friday March 31, 2023
Fundraising For Venture Debt Funds
- Explaining the value of your strategy to prospective investors
- Working with pension fund managers
- Promoting private credit venture debt funds as an attractive but separate asset class
- Focusing the fund on a specific market sector to attract savvy investors
- Partnering with VC firms: pros and cons
- Biggest concerns that equity investors and companies have when raising venture debt