Credit funds compete with banks

In order to fully exploit their deve­lo­p­ment and inno­va­tion poten­tial, medium-sized compa­nies often require finan­cial resour­ces in the form of equity capi­tal. Howe­ver, since access to the capi­tal market is not possi­ble for small and medium-sized enter­pri­ses due to their size and the equity streng­thening requi­red by banks can thus often only be reali­zed intern­ally, there is an increased demand for alter­na­tive finan­cing instru­ments. What are the opti­ons here?