Fundraising is an inevitable part of a startup’s growth curve and there are different stages of funding that it goes through, to expand its services and function at an optimal matrix of performance and profitability. These different rounds of raising funds, pre-seed, seed and series rounds, help it to infuse essential capital at timely stages into the venture which keeps it well aligned to preset...
“Valuation is both an art and a science,” Atelier Advisors’ Lili Balfour explains. The science being the simple part: evaluating similar company valuations and creating a revenue or EBITDA multiple. The art, on the other hand, is more subjective. What is the team’s strength? What is the likelihood of the leads in the pipeline? How cutting-edge is the technology? –...
In the startup arena, there could be some stellar business ideas that may fail to generate revenues. Valuing startups without any revenue in economic terms is a tricky affair. Valuation of startups is important to judge the company’s capability to use additional capital required to grow and meet other business objectives. The answer to the question on how to value a startup company with no...
