Version One Ventures

JUNE 30, 2023

Cape Privacy launched CapeChat , which automatically encrypts your documents and redacts any sensitive data. And Patch Radius enables companies, consultants, carbon accountants, private equity, etc. Their mission is to build the world’s most valuable peer-to-peer learning network, centered around memes.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2019

Other businesses fail because they raise the wrong kind of money, such as debt they can’t repay on time or equity that causes them to lose control of their business. Only offer substantial equity and responsibility to those who have proven themselves. But that’s the classic chicken and egg problem you have to solve.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise. Christopher founded two companies, Crestridge Investments and Third Wave Partners.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Forms of funding. ? Equity investment. Equity investment is the most popular and most talked-about avenue for startup funding. These investments are made instead of shares or equity in your startup. Equity investors. The third source of funding is from equity investors. Stages of Equity-based funding. ?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Also see Preqin’s Key Due Diligence Considerations for Private Equity Investors. . VC and private equity are very illiquid on both the investing and the personnel side.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 18, 2018

It is defined as an online repository of information for storing and distributing shared documents, and can be used during business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital funding. It should also protect your IP address and your shared documents. Implementation.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

One of the stipulations that franchises have to abide by is the production of a franchise disclosure document (FDD). Investopedia mentions that the FDD is a legal document given to individuals interested in buying into a franchise. Watch Out for Private Equity Owners. Private equity firms sometimes run franchises well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Remember that up to this point, the investor has primarily seen and talked to the founder and CEO, and studied written documents. All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. 3) Documenting best practices. We market to four populations: High-potential founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Remember that up to this point, the investor has primarily seen and talked to the founder and CEO, and studied written documents. All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

Risk capital takes equity (stock ownership) in your company instead of debt (loans) in exchange for cash. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). The Bad News.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Remember that up to this point, the investor has primarily seen and talked to the founder and CEO, and studied written documents. All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: • Team strength and health.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Sunshine Laws required that board meeting minutes, strategic planning documents, and similarly important materials were available for all competitors to see. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

VC Cafe summarized some of the better ‘open source’ legal docs out there – it’s certainly not a replacement for a lawyer – but it will help you get a leg up to see the documents and understand them before you actually sign the dotted line. A simple set of investment documents for early stage investment.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

If you don’t understand the flow of the document, don’t add it in. More often that not I see deals that are filled with legalese and are impossible to really understand by non-legal personnel. Understand what the other party is aiming for. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup'

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

C-Corp largely because (i) VCs have historically favored C-Corps for nuanced tax and other reasons, and (ii) virtually all of the standardized legal infrastructure around startup finance and equity compensation assumes a C-Corp. However, times are changing. If you are an LLC tech startup, you need tax counsel.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2020

Your tax filing will affect your personal returns, and you need all the details about business expenses and liabilities to properly complete your partnership tax documents. The partner will attach this document to his or her personal IRS Form 1040 or individual return for the tax year. Filing Taxes for a Partnership.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Letting small companies sell equity stakes online would be a huge boost to those firms—like angel investing on steroids. Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing. That hinders broad-based online fund raising in a couple of ways.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The most common financial buyer is a private equity firm. Indeed, big private equity firms (such as Blackstone, TPG, Apollo, etc.) There are also, however, lots of small private equity firms that you never read about and which are on the hunt for small, private companies. Conclusion.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. The industry is now dominated by hedge funds and other quant driven approaches.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

For modifications, please edit the original document here. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Mavenlink -Â manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. model legal documents. KillerStartups.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Some specific defense related AI applications are listed later in this document. The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity. We’re in the Middle of a Revolution.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise. Christopher founded two companies, Crestridge Investments and Third Wave Partners.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

At the time, the company didn’t have the tools or insight to see that the economic boom they thought would last indefinitely had already ended before the ink on the acquisition documents was dry. The Takeaway. Without specific economic insights into your market segment, you might make the wrong move, and end up a bust.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

You don’t want a senior partner preparing documents for an incorporation, nor do you want a third-year lawyer negotiating with a seasoned venture capitalist for you. Establishing the ownership and equity rights of the company if there are multiple founders. You also want the right seniority level for any given task.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

VC’s, private equity guys and corporate development guys employ all kinds of negotiating games. But then the legal documents arrive — chock full of bells and whistles and boilerplate provisions designed to protect the deal guy’s firm/company and often with significant gaps on the agreed-upon deal points.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The greatest liability for D&Os during an IPO comes from the prospectus document that discloses the company’s risks and financials to the public. The information in this document creates absolute liability for a company’s directors and officers and is subject to a three-year statute of limitations.

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Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

For employees at early-stage companies… the equity you’ve been granted is likely common stock, just like the founders. You can read more about the types of stock granted in startups here. Knowing where you sit on this preference stack is a good thing to know, so you should ask.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Then came the rise of the private equity firms, the explosion of Venture Capital and more recently Corporate Venturing. Investing in a more secure option of data sharing and a document repository will be an important line item for 2016 budgets. Google (e-mail, documents, much more, FREE), Squarespace (websites, $18/mo!)

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It is a simplified legal document that lays out the relevant terms of the transaction. This is even true for private equity buyers too, who rely a lot less on the social currency that is created by a multi-turn game. In the M&A process, an LOI feels an awful lot like a term sheet. But LOI’s are not like term sheets.

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Transformify

MAY 24, 2018

As such, key activities include Company financial analysis (knowledge of and experience in P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow assessments preferred) Market analysis Operational analysis (e.g.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise. Christopher founded two companies, Crestridge Investments and Third Wave Partners.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. Kaplan of the University of Chicago Business School and Professor Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School. (vi)

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2018

While I wasn’t selected by one of the five TV sharks, I was able to create a partnership with a private equity group that saw my segment. We sell, lease and service equipment that generates documents (printers, copiers, and so forth). (Unfortunately, I didn’t win the million dollars!)

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 5, 2020

These processes should also be documented in some sort of a training manual so the potential buyer feels as though they are comfortable in all of the operations that are crucial to the businesses performance. In general, the more organized your business is, the more transferrable it will be. Business Growth Prospects. About the Author.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Therefore, they fail to document initial understandings at the outset. specializing in public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions and general corporate and securities law matters.

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