Conversion Early Stage Pre-Money Valuation Technology 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
When you look at how much median valuations were driven up in the past 5 years alone it’s bananas. Median valuations for early-stage valuations tripled from around $20m pre-money valuations to $60m with plenty of deals being prices above $100m. We also focus heavily on geographies.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 30, 2016
conversation literally every week with startups. There is a general guideline of how much investors want to own in order to invest in your company and the norm is 15–30% with the most common range 20–25% per early stage round. A $15–20 million valuation sounds better than an $8 million valuation, doesn’t it?
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 28, 2018
There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Every VC knows that the amount you raise is often a proxy for your valuation.
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JUNE 5, 2011
I wrote this because over the last decade I’ve seen a destructive cycle where otherwise interesting companies have been screwed by raising too much money at too high of prices and gotten caught in a trap when the markets correct and they got ahead of themselves. Again, prices are expressed as pre-money valuations.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
They allow you to hire more people, purchase new technology, and establish new business connections, among many other benefits. Proposed private equity deal: Eventually, this business will require private equity to provide sufficient funding to develop some of the more robust aspects of the technology that will attract Fortune 500 clients.
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JULY 23, 2014
pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”
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