How to Raise Seed Funding for Your Startup: Convertible Notes and SAFEs

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Seed financings enable a startup to put together its initial team, build a working prototype, and begin to test the market. Often these investments are made via convertible debt or SAFEs. Veteran Silicon Valley startup and corporate attorney Jason Putnam Gordon will cover the following topics:

1. Required corporate structure

2. Legal considerations when pitching investors for seed financing

3. Differences between using convertible debt and SAFEs

4. Key terms and considerations when raising seed funding

5. Common mistakes and pitfalls that companies make when raising seed funding via convertible debt and SAFEs

6. How to close your seed financing

7. Important post-closing tasks

8. And much, much more

Come with your questions and get ready to be excited about seed financings!

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About the Speaker

Jason Putnam Gordon is a results-oriented corporate attorney practicing in the Venture Capital and Emerging Growth Companies group in Polsinelli’s San Francisco office. Jason has a passion for working with experienced entrepreneurs and executives to make their vision a reality.

In his practice, he regularly represents companies throughout their life cycle in matters related to venture capital financing, strategic corporate relationships, corporate formation, complex mergers and acquisitions, sales, and divestitures. With industry focuses on consumer goods and technology, because of his broad skill set and deep network, Jason regularly works in a wide array of verticals including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, video games, software, hardware, life sciences, the internet of things and agricultural technology.

Jason works with companies based in Silicon Valley, elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally. Jason brings a unique skill set to the negotiating table and to litigation-minimization strategies in the board room. He started his career as a federal law clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and then continued as a litigator handling corporate, securities, intellectual property, and commercial litigation before establishing a transactional practice.

You can reach Jason at:

JGordon@polsinelli.com