Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

Quick answer: convertible equity (or a convertible security) is convertible debt without the repayment feature at maturity or interest. Over the past few years, convertible debt has emerged as a quick and inexpensive method for startup companies to raise money from angel investors and early stage venture funds.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

If this is your first time raising money, the mechanics of how investors buy into your company can be very confusing. Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. Equity Traditionally, investors have invested in companies to receive equity, or shares in a company.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. Part 2 will be for pre-seed/seed companies raising traditional equity / debt / convertible security rounds. This year has been crazy in the fundraising landscape.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Convertible debt? Convertible equity? As of August 2010, Paul Graham famously proclaimed , “Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”

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Hippoland

AUGUST 31, 2018

Also, to be clear, pre-seed doesn’t mean that one just thought up an idea yesterday and has done nothing. There’s a lot of work to do to prepare to raise money at this pre-seed stage. So, this magical $1m runrate number is now the rough benchmark for the post-seed stage.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 31, 2018

Also, to be clear, pre-seed doesn’t mean that one just thought up an idea yesterday and has done nothing. There’s a lot of work to do to prepare to raise money at this pre-seed stage. So, this magical $1m runrate number is now the rough benchmark for the post-seed stage.

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