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Private Credit Marches Quietly Into Software Buyouts
Direct lenders now underwrite ARR the way banks once underwrote EBITDA.
BY GENIUS NEWS 24 EDITORIAL TEAM · JUL 4, 2026 · 6 MIN
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Direct lenders now underwrite ARR the way banks once underwrote EBITDA.
The AI buildout is becoming a credit-market story because infrastructure ambitions increasingly exceed what companies can finance comfortably through ordinary operating budgets.

Public benchmarks have decoupled from production performance. Enterprises are building private evals — and keeping them secret.
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