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How many rounds of funding can a startup have? For example, has any company ever reached H round?
by pkaye 11y ago
How many rounds of funding can a startup have? For example, has any company ever reached H round?
- stingraycharles 11y agoTwitter has had a series G round: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/6e6bf5db8245ac7b96059e4e0b99e08a https://www.crunchbase.com/funding-round/6e6bf5db8245ac7b960...
- yuncun 11y agoAnyone know what the record is?
- tricolon 11y agoSupposedly, Palantir's latest is a Series I: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/06/24/report-cia-backed-big-data-analytics-firm-palantir-raising-500m-series-i-on-20b-valuation/ http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/06/24/report-cia-backed-bi... And Alien Technology raised a Series L: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/09/alien-technology-rfid-specialist-lands-series-l-funding/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/09/alien-technology-rfid...
- rory096 11y ago>Alien is not setting a record for venture fundings. VentureSource counts four U.S. companies since 1992 that had raised 13 equity rounds through the second quarter of this year. So at least 4 series M, too.
- chrdlu 11y agoActually, Palantir just raised a Series K... https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir-technologies https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/palantir-technologie...
- mooreds 11y agoTendril (an energy/software startup in the Boulder area) has raise 8 rounds, though they don't call the last one an 'H': https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tendril https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tendril
- dvt 11y agoThere is no upper bound. You can technically have more rounds than letters in the alphabet. But no one really does it due to diminishing returns.
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- joshu 11y agoHuh? That's not how it works.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoTrue; it'd be interesting to see Twilio's cap table.
- joshu 11y agoIt's true in general. Shares don't get smaller. Just the percentages of total ownership. Which doesn't matter if the share price is going up. (I am an early investor in Twilio)
- dopamean 11y agoI'm pretty sure LivingSocial has had around 10 rounds of investment.
- karmakaze 11y agoMade me question what's a startup? Blank and Dorf says it's an "organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model" which doesn't place any limits.
- sharkweek 11y agoPulled the data from the PitchBook platform on all companies that at one point (not necessarily their current status) saw a round letter between "H" and "J"- sorted by most recent deal. 64 total companies have seen this middle of the alphabet (there are certainly a few that have gone higher not included in this list). Honestly, I expect more companies to start pushing the round name higher and higher as private market preference is certainly trending in a big way. Here's a screen grab: http://i.imgur.com/V9gvpFs.jpg http://i.imgur.com/V9gvpFs.jpg