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by joschmo 1459 days ago
I would say $2 at $20M post-money was a very average round last year (I think the median from the top 50 seed funds was very close to this and average was slightly higher). I was hearing a lot of $3 at $30 and several $5 at $50s.
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That’s insane. If you’re a founder and you own 20-90% of a 30m dollar seed stage company, you’ve essentially ballooned your paper net worth to a very nice number. A number that would be equivalent to a healthy acquisition. Obviously the founders can’t really dump those shares on the secondary market but it just feels weird for seed stage companies to be worth that much.
In a lot of ways they’re not. You mentioned one. Another is class of shares.