# Equentia Financial business loans

> Equentia Financial is on Recur Club's lender panel, writing operating lease, overdraft / cash credit, purchase invoice discounting and 5 other products. Observed tickets run ₹1.5 cr to ₹5 cr, priced between 14.2% and 16%. Median turnaround from application to disbursal is about 62 days.

Source: https://www.recurclub.com/lenders/equentia-financial
Last updated: 2026-09-29

## Products and indicative terms

Observed on live transactions. Not an offer or a quote.

| Product | Ticket | Rate | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase Invoice Discounting | ₹5 cr | 14.2% | 12 mo |
| Working Capital Demand Loan | ₹1.5–2.5 cr | 14.5–16% | 12 mo |

Also offered, with no terms observed yet: Operating Lease, Overdraft / Cash Credit, Sales Invoice Discounting, Secured Term Loan, Unsecured Business Loan, Vendor Financing.

## Eligibility

### Will not fund

- Cannot give payout to a partner who has not sourced the case originally
- Finance team will not allow payout to a partner who didn't originally source the case
- System does not allow tagging a case to a partner who has not sourced it originally
- No disbursement should happen on this case; do not process it
- Not doing top-up for cases unless it was originally disbursed by them
- Can't book a loss even for a single case, due to unit economics
- Case rejected in PD for being over-leveraged
- Will not fund export/import industry
- Negative list: retail garments (showroom inventory risk), mobile phones, gold, real estate, road infrastructure
- Swift++ won't work without charge
- We are not authorized to give interest on the cash collateral from a regulatory standpoint
- DevX decided not to move forward with the deal since the borrower (Parin) could not provide the required due-diligence details upfront within their timeline
- Gorakhpur is not serviceable
- Won't go through credit due to history
- Declined the sanction letter because the approved loan amount was lower than initially proposed and did not meet their requirements
- Won't proceed ahead due to quantum mismatch
- Dropped by Credable due to discomfort with the segment and not very high scale
- Can't run under Spark as there is no personal guarantee
- Not deploying in Gujarat currently
- Not doing Gujarat
- Will not go through their system due to negative net worth in FY25
- Won't go through the system due to discomfort with EPC+Infra sector and receivables position
- Not covering Indore as a location for now
- Can't do WCDL for seed-stage companies

### Prefers

- Can do solar EPC
- Not keen on traders, have hardly funded any
- Open to quality unsecured cases at 15% rate, 10-12% cash margin, with personal guarantee
- Comfort is with 12-15 month term loans but can consider revolving lines where needed
- New programme for early-stage companies with $1-2mn raised: exposure up to ₹10mn (₹2cr), targeting ecommerce/qcomm sellers, D2C, and B2B companies with large buyers
- …more in playbook
- Can do solar EPC
- Not keen on traders, have hardly funded any
- Open to quality unsecured cases at 15% rate, 10-12% cash margin, with personal guarantee
- Comfort is with 12-15 month term loans but can consider revolving lines where needed
- New programme for early-stage companies with $1-2mn raised: exposure up to ₹10mn (₹2cr), targeting ecommerce/qcomm sellers, D2C, and B2B companies with large buyers
- Prefers small companies with good receivables, tech/SaaS with good end clients
- Prefers escrow-backed structures
- Prefers revolving lines, but okay to do term loans
- Prefers D2C brands, ecommerce/quick-commerce sellers, and new B2B startups (infra, chemicals) for this program
- Willing to evaluate a two-way referral fee-sharing agreement
- Open to offering higher fee in exchange for exclusivity and better pricing
- Keen on doing an FLDG program
- For SID, escrow is a must; can proceed without charge on all assets but needs exclusive charge on receivables like Flipkart's
- Prefers a fully automated 'no human touch point' rejection process with no conversational back-and-forth
- Wants healthy financial ratios for the company
- Wants CIBIL to be good without any major negative findings
- Can do 20/25cr limits but not in the first time. It will be in the form of limit enhancement
- Minimum XIRR - 16.5% or 17%

### Screening gates and observed behaviour

- Borrower: CIBIL ≥650 · age ≥2y (varies by product) · avoid: Infrastructure, Roads, Tobacco Products, Explosives, Arms and Ammunitions, Gambling and Betting, Lottery Business (varies by product) · pan-India (varies by product) · sector-agnostic (50 sectors — full list in data JSON) (varies by product) · Private Limited, Public, Limited Liability Partner (varies by product)
- Financials: rev ≥₹30cr (purchase invoice discounting, secured term loan, working capital demand loan) · rev ≥₹10cr (sales invoice discounting) · rev ≥₹300cr (vendor financing) · TOL/adjusted tangible net worth ≤5 · debt/EBITDA ≤4 · debt/networth ≤4 · DSCR ≥1
- Deal: rate 13–17% · ticket ₹0–15cr (range across products — see matrix) · tenure 6–18mo (range across products — see matrix) · no PEP
- Security (observed): Personal Guarantee Of Promoters / Directors / Property Owner (100%) · FD margin 10–15% (92%)
- median ticket ₹5cr
- median rate 14%
- median turnaround 62d
- Security asked in : Personal Guarantee Of Promoters/Directors (×1)
- Security asked in : FD margin 20–30% (×10), Fixed Deposit <5% (×9), FD margin 5–10% (×9), FD margin 10–15% (×9)
- Security asked in : Personal Guarantee Of Promoters/Directors (×38), FD margin 10–15% (×28), 1st/pari-passu charge on current assets (×22), FD margin 5–10% (×14)
- Security asked in 2026: Personal Guarantee Of Promoters / Directors / Property Owner (×24), FD margin 10–15% (×22), 1st/pari-passu charge on current assets (×11), FD margin 5–10% (×6)
- share → in-principle approval (initial interest): ≈5d
- in-principle approval → sanction (underwriting): ≈26d
- sanction → disburse (closing): ≈33d

## Sanctioned terms (from 2 real sanction letters)

### Sanctioned amount: median ₹5 cr · NEW ×1

- median ₹5 cr · NEW ×1

### Typical security: Receivables / Designated Account ×1, auto-debit mandate ×1, Undated cheques ×1, Personal Guarantee ×1

- Receivables / Designated Account ×1, auto-debit mandate ×1, Undated cheques ×1, Personal Guarantee ×1

### Typical covenants: - Financial-ratio threshold to be maintained — 50% of letters (e.g. "Minimum utilization level of 80% required; if average utilization of facility limits for a quarter is below 80% of sanctioned limits, Commitment Charges of Rs. …")

- Financial-ratio threshold to be maintained — 50% of letters (e.g. "Minimum utilization level of 80% required; if average utilization of facility limits for a quarter is below 80% of sanctioned limits, Commitment Charges of Rs. …")

### Term sheet by ticket size: (facilities, largest first)

- (facilities, largest first)

## Common questions

### What does Equentia Financial lend?

Equentia Financial writes operating lease, overdraft / cash credit, purchase invoice discounting, sales invoice discounting, secured term loan, unsecured business loan and 2 further products. Across those, observed facilities run ₹1.5 cr to ₹5 cr.

### What ticket size does Equentia Financial offer?

Facilities observed on live transactions run from ₹1.5 cr to ₹5 cr. The band differs by product, so the figure that applies to you depends on which facility you are asking for.

### What rate does Equentia Financial charge?

Rates observed on live transactions fall between 14.2% and 16% a year. Tenures run 12 to 12 months. These are observed figures, not a quote, and the rate you are offered depends on your file.

### How long does Equentia Financial take to disburse?

About 62 days from application to disbursal at the median, where the file is complete. Missing financials, unresolved security or a pending no-objection from an existing lender are what usually stretch it.

### What are Equentia Financial's eligibility criteria?

The first screen is the bureau: a borrower CIBIL of at least 650. Revenue, leverage and debt-service thresholds apply on top and vary by product. The full credit box for each product is set out on this page.

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Lender intelligence dossier - screening gates, per-product terms and sanction observations, derived from lender policy documents and observed transactions. Figures are observed from a sample and are not an offer, a commitment, or a statement of Equentia Financial's current policy.
