financing

Rising financing costs make deals harder to structure, exit markets are crowded, and firms now compete against each other to sell assets back into a less receptive public market.

“The Sea,” which received financing from the Israeli Film Fund, risks becoming one of the boycott’s first targets.

Koenig, 70, sold his company five years ago and recently launched eCaregivers, financing it on his own, while looking for a like-minded investor.

It has several customers and wasn’t seeking funding, but after fielding more investor interest, it raised $11 million in additional seed financing, Johnson said.

Altman has been on a dealmaking spree over the past month, at times using creative financing structures to secure hundreds of billions of dollars worth of computing power.