So when it comes to raising early-stage financing, get brash.
Q3 statistics from Gust, which powers a majority of the organized early stage financing world, show a continued expansion of new, high-growth ventures outside the traditional startup centers, along with an increasing number of entrepreneurs seeking their first round of equity financing with products that are fully developed and ready to take to market.
The opportunities are supplied by a feeder network of regional and industry specialists in the earliest stage of financing.
And they're scheming to keep the taxman at bay earlier, long in advance of their initial public offerings, even at the venture-capital financing stage.
The group meets twice a month to listen to pitches from the heads of companies that have moved past an initial "friends and family" financing stage.
The fact is that there are thousands of early-stage companies looking for financing and many are chasing the same kinds of categories (with the main focus on consumer Internet plays).
To this end, many pharmas are using in-house venture groups to support early-stage companies, and as Atlas VC Bruce Booth reports, life-science financing these days (especially early-stage) increasingly involves at least one corporate VC.
Convertible debt has long served nobly as the default form of financing for early-stage startups.
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The site includes lists of companies that have found financing, investors, sectors, and investments, with names of the social enterprises, the financing organization, date, stage, size, and instrument.
The result is a very big inventory of early stage consumer web companies out there, looking for follow-on financing, strategic deals, customers, and exits.
Along with a global recession came a drying up of both capital for large-scale project financing and investor tolerance for the sort of risk inherent in early-stage cleantech ventures.
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As we look to the future, we see an environment ripe with conditions for transformative financing and capacity building to help people and communities reach their highest potential at every stage of life.
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An additional benefit of Astia is that it can help syndicate a much larger round of financing through connections to other angel groups and venture capital companies that invest in early-stage companies.
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