All memos tagged #fundraising

Preferred shares are a class of equity granted primarily to investors—such as venture capitalists—when they finance high-risk startup companies. Unlike Common Shares, which are typically held by found...

Common shares are a type of company stock typically issued to founders and employees when they start or join a startup. This form of equity is one of the “dirty secrets” of the startup ecosystem becau...

Venture capital mega-funds have supercharged startup fundraising all the way down to the seed: Since 2013, the average seed round of funding has grown from $550k to more than $2m.But, as the size of r...

Lines, Not Dots — a #principle popularized by Mark Suster — asserts that investors will more readily invest in founders, teams, and organizations who have shown trajectory — perceived as lines— than t...

Long.xyz is a platform designed to facilitate open, transparent, and permissionless capital formation aimed at supporting long-term innovation. By connecting issuers and holders through its applicatio...

Investor Priming is a method employed in #fundraising to improve an organization's ability to secure capital by Priming (strategy) possible investors—using paid advertising to influence their Implicit...