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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

YoungUpstarts

To safeguard your team from getting emotionally over-committed to a specific business, carefully balance the price being offered for the target, the strategic problem or opportunity it addresses, the likely near-term cash flow of the target, the integration strategy, the inherent risks and the deal structure.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Q: How are most Pre-Seed deals structured? . (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Series A is the new Series B. (~6M-$15M 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). Series B is the new Series C.