Series A
First venture round
Series A is a startup company's first major round of venture capital financing, following earlier seed funding.
The name comes from the class of preferred stock issued to investors.
Series A typically raises several million dollars and signals that a company has demonstrated enough potential to attract institutional investors.
Subsequent rounds follow alphabetically: Series B, Series C, and so on.
- fundingSupplying monetary resources
- startupNew business enterprise
- early stageInitial developmental period
- ventureRisky new undertaking
- capitalWealth used for investment
investors · pitch · valuation · equity · rounds · seed · growth · term sheet · dilution · founders · millions · Silicon Valley · deck · due diligence · lead investor · board seat · unicorn · burn rate
- entrepreneurshipentrepreneur, startup, founder, co-founder, cofounder
- fundingfunding, grant, loan, grants, venture capital
- corporate financecost of capital, investment, capital markets, NPV, debt financing
- business movesmerger, acquisition, layoffs, restructuring, expansion
- Business Stagesstartup, launch, growth, maturity, decline
- financial eventsmerger, acquisition, IPO, bankruptcy, takeover
Series Abootstrapped
Funded without outside capital
self-funded · bootstrapping · IPO · public offering · organic growth
Series AIPO
First public stock offering
initial public offering · going public · public company · acquisition · exit
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- television seriesSerialized broadcast entertainment program
- series finalesConcluding installments of programs
- book seriesRelated novels published sequentially
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