Pascal Levensohn is a San Francisco-based venture capitalist with over 22 years of VC experience through Levensohn Venture Partners and Dolby Family Ventures. He is a former director of the National ...
SAFE rounds, or simple agreements for future equity, have been around since Y Combinator invented them a decade ago. But they took on a different role in 2021 when they became a fast-moving tool that ...
Convertible notes are so 2013. Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine announced that it’s switching to SAFE to fund its startups. SAFE (simple agreement for future equity) is a new form of ...
The count is in—we know that last year, early stage funding in global startups reached $201 billion. That’s an incredible $100 billion more than the previous year, and almost $30... The count is in—we ...
According to Carta, SAFE notes have become the dominant funding instrument for early-stage startups, with roughly 64% of all seed rounds raised between Q4 2023 and Q3 2024 structured as SAFEs.