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Typical Terms of Preferred Stock Issued to Venture Capitalists

 

Source: Saratoga Venture Finance

  • Number of shares issued, price per share

  • Conversion price: number of common shares per preferred share

  • Additional formulas

  • Registration rights: mandatory; "piggyback"; number of shares

  • Veto rights: next financings, acquisitions, mergers

  • Veto rights:

- Sale and other disposition of assets

- Dividends

- Amount of stock issued

- Borrowing and leasing

- Compensation of executive employee staff

- Ownership, sale or access of technology

  • Rights of inspection

  • Right to elect board members, attend board meetings

  • Vesting rights of employees

  • Receipt of financial statements

  • Closing expenses

Sample Term Sheet for Proposed Private Placement of Convertible Preferred Stock, by NASVF