What is SAFE?
An agreement where the investor pays now and gets shares later, when the startup raises a priced round. Short for Simple Agreement for Future Equity, it has no interest and no maturity date, so the wait for shares can be long.
paid now · shares at the priced round
A SAFE gives an investor…
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Priya wired $25,000 on a SAFE in March and will only see shares on the cap table when the scheduling startup closes its priced seed round.
In the illustration
A coin drops into the company till today and a SAFE slip goes into the clip, beside two capped sockets marked % and DUE. When the priced round's die locks in, the slip slides under the press and share blocks are stamped onto the investor's row.
Read the SAFE I paste below in your deal notebook: list the cap, the discount and what triggers conversion in plain words, quote the clause behind each, and mark anything a lawyer should confirm.
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