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A company that has received an investment from a private equity fund.
A company that specializes in finding institutional investors that are willing and able to invest in a private equity fund. Sometimes a private equity fund will hire a placement agent so the fund ...
Rights of an investor to have his or her shares included in a registration of a startup's shares in preparation for an IPO.
Preferred stock the holder of which has the right on sale or liquidation to first receive an amount equal to the liquidation preference and, then, to convert the participating preferred stock into ...
The right of holders of certain preferred stock to receive dividends and participate in additional distributions of cash, stock or other assets.
An equal sharing among different groups. Separate classes of preferred stock are frequently structured to be pari passu with respect to liquidation preferences or dividends. As a consequence, on the ...
A clause in a financing agreement whereby any investor that does not participate in a future round agrees to suffer significant dilution compared to other investors. The most onerous version of "pay ...