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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend. Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation.

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No Mess (Too Much Liquidation Preference)

ithacaVC

Specifically, “too much” liquidation preference (I will use “LP” for liquidation preference). As most of you probably know, LP is one of the fundamental economic attributes of preferred stock that preferred shareholders enjoy. Is the $13mm of aggregate LP a problem? It might be.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000). <$50K in aggregate. Limited Partners, very little Personal Money. Corporate Money. Common Stock.