David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

The national outreach for women and minority entrepreneurs and the selection process was co-managed by the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association representing private equity firms focused on the middle market. In its 42 year history, NAIC Member firms have invested in and transformed more than 20,000 companies.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And well they should be. And so on down then line.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Many acquisitions in the middle market require a combination of senior debt and some type of equity or quasi-equity like mezzanine financing. As part of the acquisition process, be sure to develop a sound financing strategy in which you: Determine the valuation and financial strength of the acquisition target.

Acquisition 124

Acquisition Finance Raleigh Mezzanine 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. There is no free lunch.

Mezzanine 141

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. I like the ten steps he defines, which I can summarize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. There is no free lunch.

Mezzanine 240

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

For example, doing equity rounds only, no convertible notes, leading rounds and taking on board seats. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Opinion VC Mezzanine pre-seed seed Series A Series B Series C venture capital venture landscape Venture Spiral' The seed round is bigger. Welcome to the new venture landscape!

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Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Dharmesh Shah had a great post up last week about the lessons learned from raising a mezzanine round of financing. Terms precedent is one solid reason (among others like founder-investor alignment) that entrepreneurs should have bias towards priced equity round vs. convertible notes in seed financings.

Finance 128

Finance Mezzanine Valuation Seed Stage 128

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. There is no free lunch.

Mezzanine 120

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2011

You don’t have to give up equity in your company. Investors often take equity or royalty has repayment, which means you can gradually make payments based on the growth of the business rather than adding a large fixed payment to your expenses. You have to give up equity in your company. It doesn’t affect your credit.

Finance 76

Finance Mezzanine Equity Vesting 76

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Q: Does a Pre-Seed require founders to give up more equity in the company? Series B is the new Series C.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The second round can also be a mezzanine, or pre-IPO round, or even the IPO itself. In one scenario in my career I was with a company that had taken only one round of equity financing.

Mezzanine 22

Mezzanine Due Diligence IPO Angel Investor 22

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I sraeli Private Equity is experiencing some serious growth, according to the IVC- GKH Quarterly Private Equity (PE) Survey conducted by IVC Research Center. Private Equity is relatively less developed than VC in Israel but with deep pockets. 4)turnaround/ distressed equity- no deals reported for this quarter. (5)

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Private Equity Equity Mezzanine 100

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). Back to the survey. From the chart to the left, you can see that the 42% expected return of VC is clearly an outlier on the graph.

San Jose 33

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Mezzanine 33

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. Will public investments come next?

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2011

IVC Research Center has released the Quarterly Survey of Israeli Private Equity Deals for Q1 2011. Eleven private equity deals in Q1 2011, amounted at $216 million, a 68% decrease from the $668 million in Q1 last year, and a 74% decline from the previous quarter ($826 million). Figure 1: Private Equity Deal Value by Quarter ($M).

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Private Equity Equity Mezzanine 99

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2010

D eloitte Touche in Israel produces a Venture Capital and Private Equity survey every other quarter in an attempt to identify trends within the venture capital arena, give a summary of VC expectations of the Israeli VC community for the next six to twelve months. 77% of venture capitalists believe the gap is in Seed and First Round.

Mezzanine 92

Mezzanine Venture Capital IPO 92