Finance Partner Post-Money Valuation 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 12, 2014
New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price. In the old days there weren’t many fights about whether angels would take their prorata rights in financing rounds. Thus begins the dance. This is for a more complicated reason I call “the mark-up game.”
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Effective) post-money valuation. to build sitting at a $17M post-money is going to look fundamentally different than that exactly comparable startup which took only two years and $2M total capital at a $10M post- to get there. How much time has elapsed since company founding. 100K in MRR was cited).
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View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
But mainly we did it because these corporate VCs were among the only groups willing to invest at PayPal’s somewhat inflated post-money valuation, during the middle of the dot-com crash when traditional VCs pulled back sharply and other sources of funding were constrained.” ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel).
Pascal's View
JULY 9, 2017
This is a fundamental issue that does, indeed, boil down to understanding the post-money valuation of a company. At its core, this issue points to the lack of understanding about the importance of post-money valuation by both entrepreneurs and investors.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 1, 2010
Short summary of my posts: 1. Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment. Knowing What the Seed Funding Policy of your VC is.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 6, 2012
Unlike a startup that might raise equity financing across several rounds all combined in a single balance sheet, VC’s do not simply commingle these funds into a single bucket to be allocated across all the companies in that firm’s portfolio.
thestartuplawyer.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
About the Author Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer and represents technology companies through all phases of the startup process, including incorporation, seed & venture financings, and exit transactions. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Click here to learn more about his practice.
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