startup funding

Initial venture capital

Startup funding is money raised to launch or grow a new business venture.

It typically comes in stages—seed funding for initial development, then Series A, B, C rounds as the company scales.

Sources include venture capital firms, angel investors, crowdfunding, and accelerator programs.

They closed their Series A at twelve million.

The term implies equity investment rather than traditional loans.

Opposites
business lifecycle stage

startup fundingcorporate earnings

Company income after expenses

retained earnings · operating income

capital source type

startup fundingself-funding

Paying one's own way

bootstrapping · sweat equity

capital source direction

startup fundingshareholder dividends

Payments to company owners

dividend payments · shareholder returns

Family

funding, startup

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Timeless · Rated G