Equity Mezzanine Revenue Venture Capital 
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From traditional equity VC, Flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
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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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.
Growthink Blog
MAY 10, 2012
When seeking equity investments, the source of capital is, for the most part, tied to the stage of capital being raised. You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 9, 2014
Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public. If you have <$100M in revenue, you’re probably going to stay private. These companies now end up raising more capital in private rounds than they raised in public offerings 10-15 years ago. The seed round is bigger.
K9 Ventures
OCTOBER 10, 2017
You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Series A is the new Series B. (~6M-$15M
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. This led to an explosion in startups.
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