I don't know much about the startup world. What does it mean when they say they're in series D? And is it advisable to join a startup in series D? The startup in question is called "signifyd".
It’s rounds of financing. They are on their “D round”. They have likely raised an friends and family round, an A round a B round and a C round. You can check on crunchbase. As to weather to join, you’re going to get so little equity at that point that you will be killing yourself to make others rich. As such, I personally would demand a high premium on comp. if I were to do it at all.
@MSFT, high premium means BASE?
From IBM? Go for it :)
I mean also make sure you believe in their product, biz model, leadership team, and that they have decent runway. But also go for it :)
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Just means they raised money 4 or 5 times depending if they also had a seed stage (first investment, usually pre-product). By series D usually a company should have a mature product, marketing and sales function and should be scaling aggressively and preparing for IPO. Any sign of disorganization or amateurism is a flaming red flag at this point. Your upside from joining now is possibly limited if the company doesn't explode google style.
Does that mean they're likely to get aquired soon? Or just simply pre-ipo? What do you mean by the upside is "limited"?
Upside is limited because by this time they will give you some small amount of diluted shares.