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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. These costs make it preferable to use a convertible security for a raise of this size and to structure as equity financing if you are raising closer to $2 million.

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$100,000 Autonomous Drones & Mobility Investment Challenge

Austin Startup

The challenge will occur on March 10 in partnership with Guinn Partners and the Center for Autonomous Robotics. If you win, you will receive a $100,000 investment from Capital Factory on a convertible security (see application for more details). What is the Center for Defense Innovation?