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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 205

Formo, a fermentation startup, announced that it raised $61 million in its Series B round. Keurig Dr Pepper announced that it has signed a distribution deal to sell Black Rifle Coffee's new ready-to-drink energy drinks....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 203

Food Venture Financing Trends - Alice Mushrooms, a functional chocolate emerging brand, announced that it received funding from L Catterton and Zac Efron. Root Global, a German climate startup focused on sustainability...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 202

Food Venture Financing Trends - De Novo, a startup that creates protein-based functional ingredients using microbial fermentation, to accelerate commercialization of NanoFerrin, the company’s flagship product, following a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Business of Social Justice: How a Startup Is Holding Law Enforcement to Account

Devshi Mehrotra channeled her passion for social justice into a company that, after four years, is profitable and delivering a tool to enable public defenders to hold police accountable.   Q: Tell us about your background...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 183

Food Venture Financing Trends - Ai Palette, a Singapore-based AI-powered food innovation startup, announced that it has raised $5.7 million in Series A1 funding. Umaro Foods, a producer of seaweed-based bacon,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 182

Food Venture Financing Trends - Oishii, a US-based vertical farming company, announced that it has raised $134 million in Series B funding. PawCo, a plant-based dog food brand, announced that it has raised $2 million...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Primer on Navigating VC for Growth in the Healthy F&B (Food & Beverage) Space

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Venture capital can be a vital source of funding and support for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage space. In addition to providing capital, venture capitalists may offer strategic guidance, networking...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

What is Venture Capital and Why Does It Matter?

The moniker “venture capital” is believed to have originated from the financier John Hay Whitney. Having served in World War 2, Whitney returned to the United States with a new mission: to spread American ideals of free...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Project W: Q&A with Sarika Bajaj, Co-founder of Refiberd

Project W alumna Sarika Bajaj and her co-founder Tushita Gupta are solving a 186 billion-pound problem. That's 186 billion pounds of textiles that are discarded each year, while less than 1% of that waste is recycled. With...more

K&L Gates LLP

[Video] Client Conversations: Interview With Mark Koulogeorge, Managing General Partner of MK Capital

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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

K&L Gates LLP

Client Conversations: Interview With Mark Koulogeorge, Managing General Partner of MK Capital

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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

Proskauer - Private Market Talks Podcast

[Podcast] Private Market Talks Episode 6: Venture Capital Investing with Primary VC's Jason Shuman

Venture capital is a unique asset class. In this episode, Jason Shuman, General Partner at Primary VC, gives us a window into his world of early-stage venture capital investing and discusses the multitude of stars that must...more

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

[Event] 2023 Alternative Investments Outlook - March 30th, New York, NY

Join Tannenbaum Helpern for our 2023 Alternative Investments Outlook program. This year’s event will examine the current regulatory landscape for Registered Investment Advisors, including among other topics the SEC’s...more

Allen Matkins

PropTech Update -1.12.23

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Global venture capital funding for PropTech companies dropped from $32 billion to $19.8 billion in 2022, a decline of 38%, according to a report issued in December 2022 by the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Antitrust: Into the Metaverse

Are antitrust concerns a built-in feature of the Metaverse? In two popular science-fiction novels, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, the Metaverse is run by single companies, or "monopolists,"...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Comments and Insights on the Capital Structure of Startup Companies

In the regular corporate world, the capital structure of a company usually means the ratio between the company’s equity (money the company’s owners invested in it) and debt capital (external funding injected into the company...more

Ankura

Privacy Considerations in Debt Refinancing and Equity Seed Funding – Are you prepared?

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In an era of increased M&A transactions, organizations must understand the risks and potential liabilities associated with the personal information they obtain on their customers, vendors, and employees....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What To Expect for Seed and Pre-Seed Stage Financing in 2021

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Why SAFEs will continue to dominate in early stages - Amidst historic highs for startup investment in 2021, and new records broken every month, one wonders whether we can expect the venture capital boom to continue. ...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Convertible Debt Terms - Survey of Market Trends - 2019/2020

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The convertible debt market has remained remarkably stable over the last 15 months, despite considerable economic uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fenwick’s latest Convertible Debt Terms – Survey of Market Trends...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Entrepreneurs Report - Full-Year 2019

A Founder's Guide to Y Combinator's Post–Money Safes - In late 2018, Y Combinator released new forms of Simple Agreements for Future Equity (Safes) that were significantly different from the initial forms created in 2013....more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

[Webinar] Money, Money, Money: Raising Capital and Exit Transactions for Life Sciences Companies - October 3rd, 12:00 pm ET

Access to capital is critical for life sciences companies. Securing funding can be a lengthy and complex process compounded by the need to plan for various exit transaction scenarios. Register now for this one-hour,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Y Combinator Releases New "Post-Money" Forms of Safes

In late September 2018, Y Combinator released new forms of Simple Agreements for Future Equity (“Safes”) containing significant changes to the original forms released in late 2013. In its issuing release, Y Combinator cited a...more

Jackson Walker

KISSing SAFEly or SAFEly KISSing: The New Financing Instruments for Startups

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As the startup community continues to expand around the country, there is an ever-growing need to understand different ways that a company can structure early stage financing so that it can be equipped to discuss with its...more

McCarter & English, LLP

An Emerging Trend in Early-Stage Company Financing? – After Years of Growing Ubiquity of Convertible Notes, a Return to Priced...

After years of increasing acceptance of and reliance on convertible note financings as a mechanism for funding early-stage companies, we have noted a clear emerging trend away from such transactions (and others like them,...more

WilmerHale

Seed Investing: Understanding the Landscape - Part III

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In this final installment of our series on seed instruments, we explore the Simple Agreement for Future Equity. Startup accelerator Y Combinator (YC) introduced a new seed-stage investing tool, safe—an acronym for...more

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