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What Sets Fundable Startups Apart—Lessons from the Trenches

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The journey from idea to building a startup to receiving investment is rarely straightforward. For every startup that secures funding, many more struggle to break through. We’ve worked with thousands of founders and their...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

10 Common Mistakes Startups Make—and How to Avoid Them

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Launching a startup is exhilarating, but the path to building a successful business is riddled with pitfalls that can derail even the most promising ventures. We’ve seen thousands of early-stage companies navigate their...more

Pillsbury - Propel

ASAs vs. SAFEs vs. Convertible Loan Notes: A Primer for Founders and Investors

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Startups continue to have an increasingly international presence (or, at the very least, an international plan), and investors continue to scour the globe for investment opportunities. ...more

Morgan Lewis

Corporate Venture Capital Survey: Q2 2025

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Our second quarter 2025 corporate venture capital (CVC) survey indicators continue to show challenging market conditions. However, valuations are on the rise in surveyed transactions. In this survey, we track investment...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

UK Founder Series: Maximising Funding Opportunities for UK Tech Startups with SEIS and EIS

Orrick's Founder Series offers monthly top tips for UK startups on key considerations at each stage of their lifecycle, from incorporating a company through to possible exit strategies. ...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Cautious Optimism For Capital Markets

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Life sciences capital markets in 2025 have been a mixed bag—some rays of light peeking through, but still, plenty of clouds for early-stage companies hoping to tap the public markets. After a long IPO drought, 2024 brought a...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Q2 2025 Venture Beacon: Key VC Market Trends

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If you’re raising early-stage capital, the outlook appears strong, but for late-stage companies, the bar is higher than ever. In partnership with Aumni, a J.P. Morgan company, we’re pleased to share the Q2 2025 edition of the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 250

Food Venture Financing Trends - The Better Meat Co., a plant-based meat company, raised $31 million in its Series A financing....more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

When SAFEs Get Complicated: Hidden Pitfalls in Early-Stage Financing

Last month, a startup’s Series A nearly fell apart when investors and founders realized their different calculation methods produced a $750,000 variance. The culprit was not deception or bad faith, but rather a complex...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

From Policy to Practice: Nick Johnston on Navigating AI, Privacy, and Risk AI Wins, AI Fails - Part 1: Nick Johnston on What...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of PDS+, a new podcast series hosted by Morrison Foerster partners Kaylee Cox Bankston and Boris Segalis. The podcast is dedicated to exploring the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and...more

Goodwin

The 15-Minute Founder’s Guide: Pay-to-Play Transactions

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If your startup continues to follow the proverbial “hockey stick” of uninterrupted, exponential growth that you presented in your seed round pitch deck, you might always have easy access to capital and never encounter a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 249

Food Venture Financing Trends - Daring Foods, a vegan chicken brand, announced that it has been acquired by V2food, a large Australian plant-based meat producers....more

Cooley LLP

Key Trends and Considerations in Cross-Border Life Sciences Partnering-Licensing and NewCo Transactions Between Chinese and...

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Over the past decade, the landscape of cross-border partnering in the life sciences sector has undergone a dramatic transformation, particularly in transactions between Chinese biotech companies and their US and European...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

QSBS Revamped: Important Changes to the Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion for Founders and Investors

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”), signed into law on July 4, 2025, introduced a number of significant amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. Among the OBBBA’s most notable changes are the revisions to Section 1202...more

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Alternative Structures for Life Sciences Companies: The LLC Holding Company

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Life sciences companies (particularly early stage companies) may be attracted to an LLC holding company structure as an alternative to a typical C corporation structure to maximize both the purchase price paid by a future...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Is an IPO Window Opening for H2 2025?

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The IPO market is showing encouraging signs of recovery in 2025, with 201 companies going public year-to-date compared to 225 for all of 2024. While deal volumes are increasing and aftermarket performance is strong, average...more

Mintz - Venture Capital & Emerging Companies...

Mintz Venture Watch — Volume 8: A Report on Deal Trends from 2024 and H1 2025

Despite continued macroeconomic headwinds and a cautious investment climate, Mintz’s Venture Capital and Emerging Companies practice remained highly active throughout 2024 and into the first half of 2025. Our team advised on...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

#Antidilution: Sunset or Fall-Away Provisions in Antidilution Protection Clauses | Legal Ninja Snapshots

Welcome back to the Orrick Legal Ninja Snapshot! In today's fast-evolving venture capital landscape, we're seeing a new twist on an old favorite: sunset or fall-away provisions in antidilution protection. As the German VC...more

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Expansion of Qualified Small Business Stock Tax Benefits

On July 4, President Donald Trump signed a budget reconciliation bill entitled the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” (the Act). The Act extends the tax cuts that were enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, adds a...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Choosing your State of Incorporation

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In the wake of headline-grabbing redomiciles many executives are reevaluating whether to form or maintain their companies in Delaware or to look instead to other jurisdictions such as Nevada and Texas. In this piece, we break...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 246

Food Venture Financing Trends - Bengaluru-based functional food startup Lo! Foods raised $3.5 million in a Series B funding round to enhance operational capabilities and launch new product lines....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

From Federal to State: Building the New Life Sciences Capital Stack | Life Sciences Snapshot – Q3 2025

This year, U.S. VC funding into the life sciences sector has cooled: Q1 softness was followed by a decade low in VC transactions in Q2. Despite the moderation in dealmaking volume, investors continued to deploy sizable...more

Fenwick & West LLP

AI Startups Outpace the Market Again - But for How Long?

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AI continues to be the standout in venture dealmaking, with Q1 2025 extending the sector’s winning streak. AI companies raised more capital and achieved significantly higher pre-money valuations than their non-AI...more

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Top 10 Biggest Business Tax Breaks (and Hits) in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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With a name like the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), you know two things right away: (1) it’s a mouthful, and (2) you’re going to have to wade through a lot to find the useful parts. Fortunately, two tax lawyers already...more

Goodwin

Founder Focus: Eduardo Ortiz Reynaga at Koltin

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Welcome to our new client spotlight series, Founder Focus, in which we share insights from clients in our global Fintech practice. In this first issue, David Ajalat, Goodwin partner and Fintech practice co-chair, interviews...more

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