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Recently I sat down with a well-connected Silicon Valley CEO who just raised a ton of money, and who knew of other startups raising even more. There is a new startup club of younger companies raising money right now at $1 billion valuations. I already knew a couple of them, but I started asking a few venture capitalists and now I have a pretty good list of who is in that club and who is trying to get in (see below).
Who Is In The New Billion Dollar Valuation Club?
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One thing I've seen many VCs do wiith their initial investment in a company is invest more when the valuation gets expensive. They are ownership driven, not valuation driven. So if they originally wanted to invest $4mm at a $20mm post money valuation and buy 20% of the company, they talk themselves into investing $8mm at a $40mm post money valuation so they can still buy 20% of the company.
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Given all the talk recently about rising seed valuations and AngelGate , I wanted to do a sequel to my old post on how VC’s Value Early Stage Companies . The valuation dynamics are even more puzzling at the seed stage, where there is even less to value. Rather than provide a very structured formula for seed stage pricing, I just want to offer some principles of seed stage pricing to help entrepreneurs navigate this process better. Principle One : Early stage company valuations are a negotiation exercise. It’s not a quantitative analysis of intrinsic value. The best way to create pricing power as an entrepreneur is to create competition for your equity.
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