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Understanding Safes and Priced Equity Rounds by Kirsty Nathoo

Startup School by Y Combinator

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Safes With Valuation Caps

We're going to talk about safes with valuation caps here. Then we'll go through what happens when you raise on some raise money on safes, on post money safes. And then we will talk about dilution and understanding how your cap tables work. So in our example before, if the investors were putting in one million dollars, and the post money valuation was six million dollars, then they will own 16 point six seven % of the company. Does that all make sense to everybody so far? Ok, good. To keep things simple, but just be aware that there are other different flavours of safes that you can use, and that you may have already used, or that

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