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In the recent Court of Appeal judgment in DnaNudge Limited v. Ventura Capital GP Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 1142, the court confirmed that a provision of the company’s articles allowing for the conversion of Series A shares to...more
Mark Koulogeorge is the managing general partner of MK Capital, an early and growth-state venture capital firm that primarily invests in disruptive business-to-business software and technology companies in their A and B...more
On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is hosting a webinar titled, "Building an Investable Business – Preparing Your Company Now for Successful Exit/Acquisition and Outside Investment." Nelson...more
Heading into a startup equity financing, especially the company’s first, every founder or member of the management team owes it to their stakeholders, their company and themselves to have at least a working knowledge of the...more
Entrepreneurs are always looking for the next big idea, something that doesn't exist yet. The next Facebook. The next Uber. The next Netflix. But the reality is that the next million dollar idea is a company that simply...more
Startups and scale-ups in Europe’s tech and life sciences sectors have flourished dramatically over the past year, fueled by pandemic-induced demand and a wall of investor cash. Early funding rounds are getting bigger, while...more
The real estate needs of life sciences companies can be fluid and complex, with early stage companies typically needing smaller flexible space and later stage companies typically requiring larger build-to-suit space. With an...more
The average venture capital investor will look at a pitch deck for 3 minutes and 44 seconds before deciding whether to meet with a new startup. For founders, the message is clear: Your pitch deck needs to show a cohesive and...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: The Few Startups with Female Founders Raise More Venture Cash - After angel investments and seed round funding, studies from the Kauffman Fellows Research Center...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: The Future of Diversity and Inclusion in Tech - Silicon Valley is moving past compiling diversity data and onto retention and promotion for diverse employees....more
You don’t need me to tell you it’s a rough world out there for startups. Venture capitalists have been unusually stingy lately, hanging on to billions of dollars they’d typically be channeling into promising young companies. ...more
A total of $11 billion was invested across 1,222 Series A investments in the United States in 2016, according to CB Insights. The last quarter of 2016 saw the lowest number of Series A deals since Q1 of 2011, and even though...more
A key milestone in the lifecycle of many successful companies (and, admittedly, many unsuccessful companies) is obtaining financing from angel or venture capital investors, but in negotiating with experienced investors...more
It turns out that all of the boasting about the Greater NYC metro region rapidly becoming that heretofore elusive “Silicon Alley” is an emerging reality. Our area scored a record year in 2015 for venture capital and angel...more
The 4 Kinds of Series A Rounds in Enterprise - Elsewhere on this very blog, we’re in the middle of a three-part series on methods of Series Seed financing. But for those looking to make the leap to Series A, especially...more
The Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act (DRAA), effective as of May 2, 2015, is a recent arbitration statute that promises to be popular among parties to a wide range of business agreements. The DRAA is intended to be used...more
Starting a company has never been easier. Technology solutions for payroll, accounting, cloud computing and payment systems have made it much cheaper to take care of the back end. ...more
Atreca has announced it has secured $56 million in series A funding. Atreca, based in Redwood City, California, is a privately held biotechnology company developing therapeutics drawn from human immune responses,...more
The Numbers - Venture financing activity in New England decreased modestly in the first quarter of 2015 (-12%) with Seed and B/ Later round activity each decreasing by roughly 20% over Q4 2014. Despite this overall...more
The Numbers - Venture financing activity in New England increased modestly in the fourth quarter of 2014, with Seed and B/Later round activity increasing by 40% and 26%, respectively, over Q3 2014. For the second...more
One of your first tasks in financing your technology company is likely to be completing your initial equity financing with outside investors. Typically, these financings are done with a venture capital firm (“VC”), angel...more
Now that you have agreed on a company valuation with your investors, how do you calculate the price per share for your Series A financing? This can be especially tricky when the company has outstanding convertible notes that...more
Overall financing activity in the second quarter of 2014 showed robust increases over the prior quarters. In Q2 2014, Cooley handled 87 deals representing over $1.5 billion of invested capital. Of particular note, the...more