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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). That post was written with later stage companies in mind, but I’m now starting to see the same issues crop up in companies at earlier stages as well.