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Hey everyone, We're a pre-revenue startup at the beginning of our fundraising efforts and we want to get a 409a valuation done early in order to maximize the price of the options for our team members. We're eventually going to upgrade to the Carta paid plan, but the carta-for-startups plan ...

Hey Founder Community! We have 70% of our first financing closed (about $200k remaining) and we're looking for angel networks to tap to close the gap. Preferably former founders from the tech ecosystem, but if the angel network uses an SPV for rounding up investors we're fine with a variety of ...

Hey Everyone, I'm a 3x founder with a strong track record in my space. I'm in the process of building/launching a new b2c2b solution creatorland.com, that is like a modern linkedin for content professionals. Fundraising at the seed stage I am anticipating being highly punitive and dilutive ...

What I typically see in the early raise is a rolling close based on SAFEs. I would raise as much as you can (if possible) until you reach 10% dilution, then try to build additional traction that will let you close more on slightly higher valuation amounts on the SAFE notes. I would target 20-25% ...

Hey Brent! Thanks for this message. 👋 Hey other founders! LMK if any of you are founders focused on any of these verticals. Future of Work, AI/ML, Creator Economy, media + entertainment, marketing automation. I founded the largest nano + micro influencer marketplace in North America, heartbeat.com ...