Feld Thoughts
JUNE 10, 2022
I like the quote she pulled out of me in our conversation. Rather, when you have a choice between a financing at a lower valuation and a financing with all kinds of crazy structure to try to maintain a previous valuation, negotiate the best price you can but do a clean financing with no structure.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Corporate law: In Germany, most companies in general and most VC-financed companies are structured in the legal form of a “Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung” (GmbH). Often, this integration results in VC-financed GmbH companies having little to do with the GmbH as envisaged by the law.
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Scott Edward Walker
APRIL 9, 2012
Introduction We are in the golden age of seed financing. Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and “friends and family” are all playing the seed financing game and investing early in startups in an attempt to land the next Facebook. What is a Convertible Note? price the round).
Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 9, 2019
Over the past few weeks, two of my clients have received financing term sheets in which the investors requested super pro rata rights. Simply put, pro rata rights permit the investor to maintain its percentage ownership in subsequent financing rounds. Introduction. Pro Rata Rights.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 14, 2010
Once you cross the threshold where their percentage ownership would be worth more than the value of their preference they “convert&# their preferred stock into common stock and take their proceeds pari passu (along side and on the same terms as you) with the common stock holder. Take liquidation preferences head on.
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