Exploring the distinctions between software as a credit investment and software as an equity investment, including evaluation criteria, diligence factors, and investor goals, with a focus on the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model's suitability for credit investment.
Enterprise software is a sector with a lot to love if you’re a private credit investor: long-term contracts and sticky customers.
But how will AI impact software companies? And what is the growth outlook in the sector, which has had a tough time over recent years?
In this week’s episode of Cloud 9fin, private credit reporter Peter Benson and Oliver Thym, a partner on Thoma Bravo’s private credit platform, drill down into the value proposition of enterprise software and explain why private credit still can’t seem to get enough of SaaS.