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Can someone ELI5 how can a company raise a $169.5m at a valuation of $150m? How can they raise more than what the company is valued?

• andruby 9y ago
  By giving away more than 50% of the equity. pre-money valuation: $150M investment : $169.5M post-money valuation: $319.5M So the investors got about 53% of the company for $169.5M.
  • cbcoutinho 9y ago
    So essentially the company doubled in value - the investers thought it was undervalued and were willing to pay the difference
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    • tomhoward 9y ago
      No - the investors were willing to add $169.5M of value to the company by giving it $169.5M in cash. The company is "worth" the same as it was before, plus $169.5M new cash in the bank. In return, the investors received newly-issued shares at a price based in the pre-investment valuation of the company. So there's no paying any "difference"; only increasing the valuation of the company by injecting new cash into it and creating new shares.