Startups, venture & fundraising
Startup formation, venture capital & fundraising
Startup stages, investor types, financing instruments, cap tables, term sheets, diligence and exits.
340 entries
Startup stages & company states
23 entriesFounders & startup ecosystem
26 entries- Accelerator
- Advisor
- Advisory board
- Co-founder
- Cohort
- Corporate spin-off
- Demo day
- Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneur in residence
- First-time founder
- Founder
- Founder-led
- Founder liquidity
- Founder-market fit
- Founder vesting
- Founding team
- Incubation period
- Incubator
- Mentor
- Repeat founder
- Solo founder
- Spinout
- Startup ecosystem
- University spinout
- Venture builder
- Venture studio
Investor & fund types
27 entries- Accredited investor
- Angel investor
- Angel syndicate
- Co-investor
- Corporate venture capital
- Development finance institution
- Evergreen fund
- Family office
- Fund manager
- Fund of funds
- General partner
- Growth equity
- Impact investor
- Limited partner
- Micro-VC
- Opportunity fund
- Private equity
- Qualified institutional buyer
- Qualified purchaser
- Search fund
- Seed fund
- Sovereign wealth fund
- SPV
- Strategic investor
- Venture capital
- Venture capital firm
- Venture fund
Fundraising process & investor pipeline
41 entries- Allocation
- Anchor investor
- Bookbuilding
- Closing
- Closing condition
- Conditions precedent
- Exclusivity period
- Final close
- First close
- Follow-on investment
- FOMO
- Funding round
- Fundraise
- Fundraising
- Handshake deal
- Hard commitment
- Investment committee
- Investor follow-up
- Investor meeting
- Investor pipeline
- Investor update
- Lead investor
- Minimum raise
- Momentum
- Most favoured nation
- Order book
- Oversubscribed
- Partner meeting
- Pro rata participation
- Process letter
- Reserve capital
- Rolling close
- Round size
- Soft circle
- Subsequent close
- Super pro rata
- Syndicate
- Target investor
- Target raise
- Undersubscribed
- Warm introduction
Funding rounds & stages
28 entries- Bridge round
- Crowdfunding round
- Down round
- Equity round
- Extension round
- External round
- Flat round
- Growth round
- Inside round
- Mezzanine round
- Pre-IPO round
- Pre-seed round
- Priced round
- Recapitalisation
- Regulation A offering
- Regulation Crowdfunding offering
- Regulation D offering
- Rescue financing
- Seed round
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
- Series D
- Strategic round
- Top-up round
- Unpriced round
- Up round
- Venture debt round
Funding instruments & exemptions
21 entries- Convertible note
- Convertible security
- Crowdfunding
- Donation crowdfunding
- Equity crowdfunding
- Grant funding
- Initial coin offering
- KISS
- Line of credit
- Non-dilutive funding
- Post-money SAFE
- Pre-money SAFE
- Preferred stock
- Revenue-based financing
- Reward crowdfunding
- Royalty financing
- SAFE
- Security
- Simple agreement for future tokens
- Token financing
- Warrant
Cap table, ownership & dilution
22 entries- As-converted basis
- Authorised shares
- Basic shares outstanding
- Cap table
- Capitalisation table
- Dilution
- Employee ownership
- Founder ownership
- Fully diluted ownership
- Fully diluted shares outstanding
- Investor ownership
- Nominee
- Option pool
- Ownership percentage
- Pool shuffle
- Post-money capitalisation
- Pre-money capitalisation
- Record holder
- Reserved shares
- Security holder
- Series
- Share class
Valuation & conversion mechanics
16 entriesTerm-sheet economics
20 entries- Anti-dilution protection
- Broad-based weighted average
- Capped participation
- Conversion threshold
- Cumulative dividend
- Full-ratchet anti-dilution
- Liquidation preference
- Liquidation waterfall
- Narrow-based weighted average
- Non-cumulative dividend
- Non-participating preferred
- Original issue price
- Pari passu
- Participating preferred
- Pay-to-play
- Preference multiple
- Redemption right
- Return cap
- Seniority
- Weighted-average anti-dilution
Term-sheet control & investor rights
21 entries- Closing documents
- Co-sale right
- Confidentiality provision
- Counsel to the company
- Definitive agreement
- Demand registration
- Disclosure schedule
- Expenses provision
- Founder lock-up
- Information rights
- Inspection rights
- Investor counsel
- Lock-up
- No-shop
- Piggyback registration
- Pro rata right
- Protective provisions
- Registration rights
- Reserved matters
- Super pro rata right
- Voting rights
Founder & employee equity
23 entries- 83(b) election
- Acceleration
- Advisor equity
- Bad leaver
- Cliff
- Double-trigger acceleration
- Employee equity pool
- Employee stock option
- Employee stock ownership plan
- Equity cliff reset
- Equity refresh
- Exercise
- Exercise price
- Exercise window
- Good leaver
- Option grant
- Phantom equity
- Restricted stock
- Reverse vesting
- Single-trigger acceleration
- Stock appreciation right
- Tax election
- Vesting schedule
Startup traction, burn & capital efficiency
19 entriesInvestor diligence & data rooms
22 entries- Anti-money laundering
- Commercial due diligence
- Confirmatory diligence
- Customer reference
- Data room
- Data room index
- Diligence tracker
- Due diligence
- ESG due diligence
- Financial due diligence
- HR due diligence
- Legal due diligence
- Management interview
- Product due diligence
- Q&A log
- Quality of earnings
- Red flag report
- Representations and warranties insurance
- Source of wealth
- Tax due diligence
- Technical due diligence
- Virtual data room
Exits, liquidity & investor returns
31 entries- Acqui-hire
- Acquisition
- Carried interest
- Cash-on-cash return
- Clawback
- De-SPAC
- Direct listing
- Distribution waterfall
- DPI
- Employee liquidity
- Exit
- Exit multiple
- Exit value
- Financial sale
- Founder secondary
- Hurdle rate
- Initial public offering
- Internal rate of return
- Leveraged buyout
- Liquidation
- Liquidity
- Management buyout
- Management fee
- Merger
- Multiple on invested capital
- Return multiple
- RVPI
- Secondary sale
- SPAC
- Strategic sale
- TVPI