Early-Stage Company

Formation | Angel/Pre-seed | Venture-backed

After the initial startup phase of a company’s life, we help founders start building. Often the first item on the agenda is raising an initial round of pre-seed capital by selling simple agreements for future equity (SAFEs) or convertible notes to friends and family, angels and early-stage VCs. We also help companies at this stage hire and structure equity incentives for their first employees, negotiate their early customer and vendor contracts and navigate any legal, regulatory and commercial issues that arise when building and launching their minimum viable product, or MVP.

Services

• Seed, Venture and Growth Financings
• Executive Compensation
• Strategic Transactions & Licensing
• Data Privacy

Formation | Angel/Pre-seed | Venture-backed

We help the company’s founders navigate the transition to having venture investors with more significant stakes in the business and more say in how the company runs as they sit around the board table. As a strategic advisor, we help founders prepare for board meetings, and we attend those meetings to take minutes, provide guidance to the board and answer any legal or procedural questions that come up. At this stage, we also help venture-backed companies manage explosive growth, developing forms, playbooks and processes to power an ever-expanding sales organization, implementing equity incentive plans and policies to attract and retain top talent, and comply with a growing web of employment and data privacy laws and regulations across the U.S. and internationally.

Services

• Seed, Venture and Growth Financing
• Executive Compensation
• Strategic Transactions & Licensing
• Corporate Governance & Strategy