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I'm not very familiar with how raising funds works so this is a genuine naive question and I'd appreciate if someone could explain this to me. On their "About
by DrJokepu 14y ago
I'm not very familiar with how raising funds works so this is a genuine naive question and I'd appreciate if someone could explain this to me.
On their "About Us" page, they say that they've raised $142M in venture funding. How much equity VCs typically get for such an investment? 20%? In that case, the exit of the VC would be around $240M which in not even a 2x profit. Is it possible that the equity owned by the VCs is much larger than that? It seems to me that VCs would have to own a very large percentage of their equity to make this acquisition worthwhile for them, in which case the original founders wouldn't get anything nearly close to the $1.2B purchase price.
- nivertech 14y agoI expect investors to have majority of equity in the company now, more like 60% or even more, not 20%. You can't raise 142M and stay with 80% of the equity.