You’re sitting across from an angel investor, heart racing, as they ask the question you knew was coming: “So… what’s your ...

Cake Equity reports founders still value startup equity as essential for trust and motivation, despite rising employee ...

The persistence of ownership culture reveals a deeper truth about how startups operate. While compensation initially helps ...

One of the most difficult parts of the fundraising exercise for entrepreneurs is negotiating the valuation discussion. It often feels like founders are stepping into a conversation where the venture ...

If your startup is actively seeking investment, determining the value of your operation is a critical step in the negotiation process. In addition to looking at market comparables and gathering data ...

It’s all paid off for the company. VentureBeat reports that Blue J’s $122 million Series D, announced this summer, secured ...

Prominent fund managers and angel investors in India believe that the age of unicorns is over, and also say the metric by which a unicorn is defined needs to be updated for 2024 Instead of valuation, ...

Carta, a once-high-flying Silicon Valley startup that loudly backed away from one of its businesses earlier this year, is working on a secondary sale that would value the company at $2 billion, ...

Veza, whose software helps businesses monitor employees’ and AI agents’ access to internal data, has been talking to potential buyers about a sale that could value the startup at more than $1 billion, ...

Even a fast-growing, high-valuation startup can leave founders with nothing if they don’t understand how the exit waterfall determines who gets paid first. Learn how to protect your equity, negotiate ...

Cursor, an A.I. coding tool praised by tech leaders from Nvidia ’s Jensen Huang to Google ’s Sundar Pichai, has quickly become indispensable for engineers across Silicon Valley. Investors are taking ...