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$113M seed at $260M valuation -- a seed round that values the company at ~2x, is that conservative or expected?
by dpflan 3y ago
$113M seed at $260M valuation -- a seed round that values the company at ~2x, is that conservative or expected?
- tromp 3y agoI think it just means that the investors will hold 113/260 ~43% of the shares, with the founders controlling the other 57%.
- pauldix 3y agoLikely the 3 founders have 12% each (after a 4 year vest) and the remainder (21%) goes to the option pool.
- blitzar 3y ago113M for ~50% of zero product and a vauge plan. Seems fair enough to me, if they had a barely trained prototype it probably would have been 113M for 15%.
- reducesuffering 3y agoSeed rounds are usually 10% - 20%, I haven't heard of 43%.
- questime 3y agoThese are considered "incubated" companies - I don't think these usually go well. Common in biotech though.
- TechBro8615 3y agoPerhaps there is more cultural willingness to surrender 50% of a company when you live in France and are already used to sending 50% of your income to the government. But even as an American, I think I could be convinced to give up 50% of my newly formed company for $113 million of runway...
- treprinum 3y ago$113M is like a cost of 10 full LLaMA-65B training runs. Pitiful money to do any serious AI research.