Both Sides of the Table
JULY 22, 2010
Things like “ participating preferred stock &# in legalese unsurprisingly never actually call out, “hey, this is the participating preferred language.&# We got a3x participating liquidation preference with interest (not participating with a 3x cap, but 3x participating.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 6, 2022
First, the marginal exit event: Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 7, 2012
Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The company has done $400k in sales in less than two years and had an early test deal with a local supermarket chain that they were massively overperforming on. BACK 9 DIPS.
Early Growth Financial Services
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Today, we’re tackling participating versus non-participating preferred stock, a fundamental economic term in VC deals that goes to the heart of the business agreement between investors and management in connection with a sale of the company. Participating versus non-participating: what’s the difference?
Startup Company Lawyer
MARCH 14, 2010
To differentiate it from typical “Series A&# preferred stock, which comes with certain expectations with regard to rights. There is no real rule to what a particular series of preferred stock is called. Co-sale rights. Why is it called Series Seed? What rights does the Series Seed have? Legal fees.
Scott Edward Walker
JUNE 9, 2019
For example, if an investor owns 20% of the equity of a startup on a fully-diluted basis following the closing of a Series A round, it will have the right to purchase 20% of the shares of the preferred stock issued in the subsequent Series B round. The post WHAT ARE SUPER PRO RATA RIGHTS?
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 10, 2012
In most equity financing rounds, an investor will ask for (and get) a term called a liquidation preference. A liquidation preference is the amount that must be paid to a preferred stock holder before any sale proceeds may be paid to the holders of common stock (i.e., founders, option holders, etc.).
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