Early Stage IRR Revenue Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? It’s just math.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.
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David Teten
AUGUST 21, 2019
Or should they look to one of the new wave of Revenue-Based Investors? Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Works for early-stage companies.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. I mentioned that we sold our position in Kyriba for > $1 billion but when we invested it had virtually no revenue. Over the past 2.5
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. He then went on the create an early-stage VC that I track closely?—? Entrada Ventures? —?that
David Teten
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Enter Raul: This capital table startup options valuation model was created with the purpose of valuing options for an illiquid, early-stage start-up. For my start-up, I built a very robust operational and financial model with a detailed revenue build up and a validated cost structure.
Hippoland
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
The #1 problem with the venture capital game, in general, is that *actual success* is measured over decades not years. Any investor who tells you otherwise is BSing you. But what if a company is growing revenues but hasn’t raised a round in a while? Last traction: None have revenue. Last traction: None have revenue.
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