What is the Right of First Refusal When it Comes to Startup Equity?
What is the Right of First Refusal (ROFR) when it comes to startup equity? The ROFR is part of the stock purchase agreement that is signed during a venture capital fund raise.
Where Do VCs Get Their Money?
Where do VCs get their money from? Everyone knows that entrepreneurs who are doing a startup have to go to pitch venture capitalists.
What are Your VC’s Return Expectations Depending on the Stage of Investment?
It is incredibly important that startup founders know what their VCs are going for so that they can be aligned and make smart decisions.
How Do Venture Capitalists Spend Their Time?
Today we are answering the question, “how do venture capitalists spend their time?” Everyone thinks VCs just get to run around and invest in tons of companies and have the greatest job of all time... but they only get to do that for a small percentage of their time.
What Securities do VCs use to Invest in Startups?
In the United States, there are four types of securities that are typically used by venture capitalists to invest in Silicon Valley-style startups.
Pre-Seed Funds
It turns out that pre-seed funds are filling a really important niche in the market. These firms actually help increase the velocity of the earliest stages of venture capital. Greasing the wheels of Silicon Valley, in a way.
Understanding VC’s thought process during the COVID crisis
The COVID crisis has dramatically slowed down early-stage venture activity.
Kruze on CVCs
Scott Orn, Kruze COO, recently co-authored two posts on TechCrunch on how startups should approach and negotiate a venture capital investment with CVCs.
Fintech Equity & Debt Staircase
Fintech companies have special needs when raising funding that they are going to use to loan money out to their clients - often called “equity and debt staircase”.
2020 VC Due Diligence Trends
We are seeing several new trends in the due diligence that venture capitalists do prior to completing a deal. Kruze is in a unique position to notice new venture capital trends since our clients have raised over $4.5 billion in early-stage funding.
Tech CFOs Name the Hottest New Tech Cities In 2020
This month we surveyed nearly 30 Bay Area CFOs to find out their predictions for all things tech in 2020. One question that drew particularly enthusiastic responses was: What’s the next new U.S. tech hub?
Working Capital 101 for Startups
Venture-backed, early-stage companies should use accrual accounting - I won’t get into the detail here as to why, but if your goal is to raise serious VC funding or get acquired by a public technology company (or eventually have an IPO), you need accrual-based accounting.
Top 5 Venture Capital Pitch Decks
We've helped clients raise over $4.5 billion in VC funding - here are some of the best pitch deck templates on the internet right now.
Venture Debt Market to Grow to $10 Billion in 2019
As experts in the venture debt market, we recently released a study that surveyed venture debt firms and bankers representing over 85% of the venture debt market.
Do Startups Need a DCF for a venture capital round?
We have worked with hundreds of companies that have raised over $2 billion in venture and seed financing, and have seen a ton of startup pitch decks, capitalization tables and, of course, venture dollars.
What financial information do VCs want after an investment?
If you are a startup CEO who has just raised funding, this post will help you understand the financial information your VC’s will expect to see from you.
Featured Service - Bolt Venture Capital
Bolt VC is a Venture Capital fund which specializes in helping hardware startups get the capital, prototyping, and expertise they need to build their foundations.
Fund Venture Lenders vs. Bank Venture Lenders
Today we're talking about fund venture lenders vs. bank venture lenders. Now, banks, they're always really really cheap. They have low interest rates and low warrant coverage and that's partially because they are lending out other companies’ deposits. They take one company's deposits and lend it out to another. That's how banks work in just about everything. So that way their cost of funding is very very low.
Why Do Startups Take Venture Debt?
At Kruze Consulting, we get tons of questions about venture debt. Should a startup take it? Is it good for the startup?
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