Startup Funding Explained: Series A vs Seed - Startups 101

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The convention to name a round ‘Seed’ vs ‘Series A’, or ‘Series B’ vs Series C’ responds mostly to the company stage, and a little bit to the size of the round. A lot of the confusion comes from the fact that rounds can vary in size a lot: you can find Seed Rounds at $250K and at $2M, and they are both true ‘Seed Rounds’ (or at least that’s how they are reported in Crunchbase).

So let’s get to it.

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0:00 Rounds of Funding - Intro
2:37 Rounds of Funding - Pre-seed Money
4:06 Rounds of Funding - Seed Rounds
5:00 Rounds of Funding - Series A
8:39 Rounds of Funding - Limbo
9:58 Rounds of Funding - Series B
13:54 Rounds of Funding - Summary

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