08 · Transactions & finance · Amorçage → série D
Venture capital & emerging companies
What assistance changes in this practice, what it does not change, and the time reduction actually observed.
Where the gain is real
Production of financing document sets, capitalisation table review, tracking of contractual rights across an entire portfolio.
Where it is slight or nil
The decision to invest, valuation, founder mentoring.
Observed time
−63% at constant case scope, on cases closed over the last three financial years. This measure says nothing about the quality of the outcome.
What the practice covers
- Company formation, founder equity, assignment of intellectual property rights
- Seed rounds through to later series, on both the investor and the company side
- Convertible notes, SAFEs and bridge financings
- Governance: board, shareholder meetings, directors’ duties
- Portfolio company exits and acquisitions
- Tracking of information rights, board seats and pro-rata rights across the whole portfolio