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Series A
- vote Google vs Series A startup? Hi all, Have 2 offers in hand: - Google E5 at ~500k/year - Series A startup with 70m evaluation at 180k cash + 0.1% equity Does it even make sense to consider startup in these conditions? #google #startup
- [India]Rate my Startup offer Series A Current TC: 92 lpa(60 base + 32 Rsu per year) Yoe: 12 Offer: 70 Base + (0.165 percent equity) Note: It is a US based company and has already closed series B but anouncement pending. My offer is at seris A strike and percent ownership is for for seris A outstanding before dilution. Company val post
- Series A Offer evaluation Backed by promising investment firm/individuals I don't wanna name. Cool product with good amount of upside with a proven/polished MVP, but there's definitely a lot to build out as a team. Current TC: 300k New offer: Size: 10~20 employees Role: Tech Lead Cash: 250k Starting bonus: 40k Equity: 0.8
- vote Series A startup offer Got an offer from a series A enterprise startup. They are valued at $85M and raised $15M as part of series A. They had raised $3M as part of their seed. Less than 10 employees currently. First time entrepreneurs. Grade 1 investors. Base: 185k Equity: 0.8% options Sign-on: TBD Current TC - 270k Yoe
- Series A vs LinkedIn Hello all, Can you help me evaluate the offers? Series A startup Funding: 41 MM(series A + seed) Valuation: 100MM Base: 200K Options: 14000 over 4 years Strike price: 8 USD LinkedIn TC: 430k Current comp: 🥜 YOE: 7
- Will a docu series be made about compass? We Crashed the Stock Price in the midst of the greatest housing bubble in history.
- Series A offer evaluation Position: leadership position (first or second manager) Base: 210 Stock options: 50000 (monthly vesting after one hear cliff). Equity: 0.4% No sign on No 401k matching Valuation: 25M Employees: ~40 Medium level investors Company is planning a series B soon. Current TC: 350 YoE: 11 Location: Seatt
- Series A Startup Eval I'm curious what others think who have been in this position in regards to deciding to move from a big company to a small riskier opportunity. Details: - Series A, valued at $55m - Head of Design - 230k base pay - 20% performance based bonus - 0.5% equity Current TC: 270k
- Rate my Series A Offer QA Lead Base $165,000 Equity 0.25% Entire company is Remote Company is Series A with $20M of funding 30 Employees and hiring many more $5M/year in Annual Recurring Revenue Revenues growing 10-15% per month Founder estimates current valuation of $200M Looking to raise Series B soon Should I take it
- Equity % for series A 45 employees What’s a normal equity % as a Senior SWE at a series A startup? There’s about 45 employees and valuation is $20-30M. What’s a good range of % I could negotiate for? #startup #equity
- vote Series A startup or Salesforce Got 2 offers and trying to decide how much risk there is on an early stage startup. Gonna try and negotiate them both up 🚗: 200 cash / 420 paper 💴 company value ~ 30m Salesforce: 165/ 140 stock — TC: 225 TC: 205
- vote Meta vs Series A Meta TC: ~331k Stealth Series A: 155k + .25% shares Is backed by Sequoia I’m struggling to pick between the two. Reason why I want to join start up is obviously upside of equity and that I’ll learn a lot more. But I’ll be working my ass off probably and paper money They will series B mid year. S
- vote Series A Evaluation I haven’t interviewed with this company yet but got the following info on a Series A fintech out of CA for sr. Backend SWE: $140k starting salary for seniors (the lead emphasized that “they’re looking for people exciting for the equity”) Unclear what % is offered. Refused to tell me what typically i
- vote Offer comparison: Series A vs Series D Considering two offers and not sure which to take: - Series A: 250 base, 0.2% equity on 100m valuation, <10 employees, experienced founder - Series D: 300 base + 15% bonus, 0.07% equity on 1b valuation, nice title YOE: 10 What would you pick & why? #startup #compensation #offers #equity
- Offer from pre-series A, good base, negligible equity Hi - I just got an offer from a pre-series A start up who is about to close a $15m Series A round. They have been around for 3 years with about 20 employees. They offered me 215k CAD base + 5,000 shares valued at 10,000 only. Strike price will be shared but is quite low in cents. My current total
- Series A companies Allot of series A companies reaching out to me. I am not sure how stable these companies are? Is it safe to join these companies? Can anyone please share their experience with a series A companies? How should we research before joining a series A? Yoe: decade+ Tc: 🥜🥜🥜
- vote Apple vs Series A Have an offer from a series A enterprise startup. They have < 10 employees. ~16Million in the bank. And valued at ~ 85M. New founders Tier 1 VC New TC: Base- 200k Equity- 1% over 5 years Current TC: Base-165k Rsu- 80k per year Yoe <6 I believe in the idea and the team. Ultimate aim is to d
- Series A startup offer I recently got an offer from a startup that has just raised $20m at $60m valuation. $200k base, 1% equity. Is that a good offer for a staff level engineer? Current TC is ~$500k, more if I stay and finish 4 years (back-loaded vesting)
- vote Series A offer vs Series D offer Considering two offers. Same TC however one is series A, raised $25 mil and won’t tell me their current valuation since they haven’t announced the funding and the other raised series D and valued at 4-5 billion. Difference is in role and responsibilities: - Series A: building team, process and syste
- Series A v/s series E How does value of series A esops vary from series E esops. Do 30Lac of series E esops worth more than 30Lac of Series A esops?
- Series A Offer I have an offer from a Series A company, and I'm trying to figure if it makes sense to join. I told them my base expectation but not equity. How much equity should I expect or ask? How do I think about their Series A valuation? Edit: Details YoE / Role: Close to 6, ML Engineer Current headcount: ~
- Leaving Startup after Series A What’s my equity worth? Back in the day, I was granted 1% at 5cts strike price. We got a 5mio for 25% and a 10mio for 25% investment in the meantime. Does that mean our valuation is at 5mio * 4 = 20mio 10mio * 4 = 40mio Does that mean the early investors have doubled their capital and my 1% is n
- vote Series A offer evaluation Startup raised 25 million round A. Would be engineer # 20-30. Offer: Base: 190k Sign on: 25k Equity: 0.26% Location: Remote (MCOL) Updated: Base: 200k, sign on: 40k, equity 0.3%. Current TC: 250k Phd, 6yoe Comments and suggestions appreciated!!! Thanks!!!
- Series A equity What would be a fair equity % for a senior engineer in a series A startup with less than 10 engineers? They are funded by top VCs and have solid founders.
- Chief Product Officer comp at series A Talking to a series A startup that’s raised ~12m about their CPO role. Any Blinders out there have info on how comp might work at this early stage/exec role combo? Tc: ~700k mostly from rsu at this point #equity #startup #compensation
- Series A offer Got an offer from a Series A and don’t know how to interpret it. Lot of ex AWS people in the startup and founder seemed very nice. Founder said I can’t negotiate even though I have multiple offers. Is this offer a lowball? Offer: Base: 185k Sign on: 10k Options: .1% over 4 years Current TC: 280k
- Series a startup offer Director role with a series A start up Offer in TX - 170k with shares valued at 48k based on current valuation. Is the equity low?#equity #startup
- vote Series A Opportunity Offer - base: 130k - equity: 0.5% (~$200K @ curr val) - TC: 180k (130K, 50K 1/4) Some context - CEO has exited before. Not a great one but managed to pull through - Current valuation 40M, series A funding 4M - Space is edtech and showed some good signs of traction - Product has been built by part-t
- Series A startup I have an offer from series A startup, please comment. Startup is in health care cancer treatment business Base 150k + 10k sign on + equity Is is a good offer?
- Series A startup Is it advisable to join a Series A startup? TC ~ 175k
- Series A startup comp Expecting an offer for a Head of Product role (first PM) from a Series A startup. what would be a reasonable expectation for base salary and equity (% of company)? Currently at Square. TC ~$420k. 9 YOE.
- Series A/B startup How’s the following? Base: 180k Equity: I don’t actually know how to calculate %, but think I was told 0.05%. Company was 110m, not sure about upcoming Series B numbers. The tool provided shows options would be worth $225k if valuation = $500m. Current TC: ~200k in Minnesota
- Help on offer evaluation at Series A startup I have an initial offer from a Series A starup that I can't make much sense of : Base : 190K/yr Stock options : Option to buy 6250 shares/yr at strike price of $0.95 Company won't tell me total outstanding shares, but does tell me last valuation was at 85M. I was also told that last valuation put
- Need advice on Series A offer Hired as the first designer of 10 people Engineering team. I’m a Senior with 5+ YOE at FAANG Salary: 210K Bonus: 25K Equity: 0.55% Series A 10M funding and 40M valuation. Going to Series B in a few months with valuation between 150M - 300M. Backed by a16z
- vote Series A startup offer evaluation Position: Sr. SWE (More like mid-level acc to FAANG) Base 170 Sign-on bonus 20 Stock Options 5,000 at $6 after Series A Equity percentage of 5000 stock options is 0.03% Funding 23M Valuation 101M Company founded in 2020 Founders are high profile High profile investor (one of the FAANG) ~25 employe
- Series A StartUp Offer Hi All, I've just been offered 140K Base, plus 2,500 Class B LLC unis. 25% of options unit will vest for first 12 months and it will vest monthly for the next 36 months after that. Is this a good offer? This is a Series A battery startup. 20M Cap. ~7.5M funding. 40 employees. This position is for
- Series A Dilution How much can you expect, on average, 1% post series A to be worth at IPO or Acquisition assuming several rounds of funding? (I understand there are lots of factors like leadership, deal structure, etc. just looking for a range estimate) TC 140 YOE 3
- vote Netflix vs Coinbase vs Series A startup Netflix: 450K all cash Coinbase: 206k base + 10% bonus on base(20k) + 175K equity + 51K sign-on Series A startup: 200k base + 14000 options(0.1% of 100MM valuation) YOE: 7 + MS TC: 🥜 #engineering #software #swe
- vote Series A offer eval 201k base 5k signon (wtf? Why even? Is this common?) 0.07% equity valued at roughly 60k 20 yoe but spent many years resting and vesting due to family/kids, also have multiple offers incoming including amazon (no numbers yet, still 1 more interview to determine L5 vs L6) Base is high but equity se
- Series A Offer Evaluation Love to get some thoughts on a recent offer. Position: Sr PM Salary: 130k Equity: .15% Company: Series A @ 55M valuation Series B ~6-8 months with some confidence it’ll be @ 250M+ valuation (just assume it’s true) Assume refreshers would occur + Candidate: current TC: 235k ( not at C1 anymore) YO
- vote Series A Unicorn startup offer evaluation/tips (poll) Can someone help me evaluation a startup offer? It's a bit weird since the company is already at a Unicorn valuation, but they definitely have good upside in the space to 5~10x. Series A startup at ~1B valuation. Current: public company making around 270k total comp. (200k cash+bonus, 70k stocks d
- Series A too early? Considering joining a series A in the AI/ML space.. but have obvious concerns regarding the risk. I’ve been part of a successful series C company that had an IPO, but understand most “pre-ipo” start ups never do. Would love to hear thoughts on weighing pros and cons based on your own experiences.
- vote Google vs Series A startup? I'm currently L5 at Google with TC 400k (base 210 + bonus 40 + rsu 150). I have an offer from a Series A startup with 250k base and 0.5% equity. Current valuation is 85m and they're expecting Series B within a year with expected valuation of 500m+. I do believe that to some extent but at the same t
- vote Series A Offer Evaluation Current TC: >400K+ YoE: ~11 Series A offer: - $270K base - 0.15% equity (need to figure out other details) - tbd title, but staff/lead/sr backend engineer Equity is low. What is acceptable equity? What would other push for? #equity #startup
- Series A startup offer Recently got an offer from Series A FinTech company. Series A valuation is 160m and I got $250k options. so 0.15%. 40 people including 20 or so engineers. Is this a good offer? The valuation seems high, especially they haven't launched any product yet. Of course they mentioned the product is about t
- Series A offer evaluation? Need help with evaluating this series A offer. The current offering is $190k base and 0.2% ownership. The company’s current valuation is $200M after first round that was closed last month. #startup #equity
- Evaluate Seed / Series A Start Up Offer New to Startups but wanted some insights and feedback to evaluate the below offer. Currently, raised seed (nice amount), and moving to Series A very soon. How does accepting the offer at Seed change my equity or offer upon the Series A being raised? Base: 100K Commission: 18% of every deal closed (
- Series A vs Series B Equity Does the amount of options given change drastically between A and B rounds, given a 2-3x in valuation?
- link Any info on Vareto? Series A, financial planning space https://www.vareto.com/news/vareto-series-a
- Series A offer evaluation Just landed in an offer from series A startup in Bay Area for Software Engineer - Quality and Automation and will be getting the numbers next week. How do u evaluate the offer of Series A? And how much should be the equity(stock options) that an engineer level employee should expect. YOE : 3 TC :