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VC Deals & Insights
Funding rounds, term sheets, market commentary and tools for founders raising venture capital — the running commentary around the Venture Capital hub.
- 20 guides
- Updated Oct 19, 2026
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Management Buyouts and Employee Ownership: Exiting Without Selling to an Outsider
The insider exit family explained for founders: who buys you out, how the debt gets paid, what trustees and lenders will accept as a price, and what reaches your account when the buyer is your own team.
Taking Your Startup Public: IPO, Direct Listing and SPAC as a Founder Exit
An IPO does not cash you out; it changes the currency you hold. This guide covers readiness, process, cost, the three listing formats and how founders actually sell after the bell rings.
Acqui-hire Exits: Selling the Team When the Product Didn’t Win
When runway is short and the product has not won, the team is still worth something. This guide shows how an acqui-hire exit is priced, split, papered and taxed, and what the Inflection, Windsurf and FriendFeed deals teach founders.
Due Diligence and Legal Preparation for a Startup Exit: The Founder’s Checklist
Due diligence is where exits are repriced, delayed or killed. This checklist shows founders what buyers examine, how to run reverse diligence 12 months ahead, and how the definitive agreement allocates risk.
How to Value Your Startup for an Exit: Multiples, Comparables and What You Actually Keep
The valuation pillar of the Founder Exit Playbook: which methods buyers actually use, what multiples looked like in 2025–26, how the buyer will cut your number, and why a $100M headline can become $18M in your account.
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Startup Exit Strategies: The Founder’s Map of Every Way Out (2026)
An exit is a decision you make years before the wire hits. This map lays out the eight routes, what the 2025–2026 market pays, and how to pick the one that fits your company.
Best Virtual Data Room Software in 2026: Fundraising and M&A Compared
Six virtual data rooms for startup fundraising and M&A diligence compared on published pricing, free trials, Q&A, access controls and deal fit.
Sir Stephen Tindall: How The Warehouse Founder Became a Venture Backer
Stephen Tindall built New Zealand’s biggest discount retailer, then spent thirty years turning its shares into start-ups and philanthropy.
How Founders Outside AI Can Still Raise Venture Capital in 2026
AI startups took roughly 80% of global venture funding in 2026. Here is how non-AI founders are still closing rounds, and what investors demand before they commit capital.
September 2026 Venture Funding: What a $1.47 Billion Week Reveals About Raising Capital Now
Ten venture rounds totaling $1.47 billion closed the week of September 8-9, 2026, with 91% concentrated in six deals. Here is what the funding pattern means for founders raising capital now.
Germany’s Scaleup Gap: Why 92% of Exits Are Trade Sales
Germany founds startups at record rates and sells almost all of them. A case study in where growth capital stops and why exit route determines ecosystem outcomes.
