The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. What exactly is the seed funding? The initial official fundraising round is called seed funding, and it comes immediately after the pre-seed investment stage. What is the Evaluation of the Funding?
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. “And if you have a valuation cap; a higher cap is always better than a lower cap.”
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times.
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
In other words, any correction in public valuations happened quickly and has now stabilized. From Series A and onwards, fundraising takes longer and valuations are typically below the expectations and benchmarks of 2015. At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 14, 2015
A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Here’s the scenario. Sure – it happens.
www.businessinsider.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. But the convertible cap has increasingly been used as a guide for valuation.
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