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How to Raise Seed Funding for Your Startup: Convertible Notes and SAFEs, hosted by Silicon Valley Startup: Idea to IPO

3rd Party Hosted Event
Date: 9 February 2022
Time: 3:00 PM PT
Location: via Webinar

Seed financings enable a startup to put together its initial team, build a working prototype, and begin to test the market. Often these investments are made via convertible debt or SAFEs. Veteran Silicon Valley startup and corporate lawyer Jason Putnam Gordon will cover the following topics:

  • Required corporate structure
  • Legal considerations when pitching investors for seed financing
  • Differences between using convertible debt and SAFEs
  • Key terms and considerations when raising seed funding
  • Common mistakes and pitfalls that companies make when raising seed funding via convertible debt and SAFEs
  • How to close your seed financing
  • Important post-closing tasks

Silicon Valley Startup: Idea to IPO 

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