- 83(b) Election
- 409A Valuation
- Accelerated Vesting
- Accredited Investor
- Acquisition
- Advisor
- Angel Investor
- Anti-Dilution
- Articles of Incorporation
- Articles of Organization
- Asset Purchase
- Authorized Shares
- B Corporation Certification
- Beta
- Blockchain
- Blue Sky Laws
- Board of Directors
- Bridge Loan
- Burn Rate
- Buyout
- Bylaws
- C-Corporation
- Capital Gains Tax
- Capitalization Table
- Certificate of Incorporation
- Change in Control
- Cliff
- Collateral
- Common Stock
- Convertible Note
- Corporate Governance
- Cryptocurrency
- Data Room
- Debt Financing
- Dilution
- Dilution
- Director
- Double-Trigger Acceleration
- Down Round
- Due Diligence
- EIN (Employer Identification Number)
- Equity
- Equity Compensation Plan
- Escrow
- Exercise Price
- Exit
- Fair Market Value
- Form D
- Founder
- Founder Preferred Stock
- Franchise Tax
- Friends & Family Round
- Fully-Diluted
- Funding Platform
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- General Solicitation
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Holdback
- Holding Company
- Incentive Stock Option
- Incubator
- Indemnification
- Independent Contractor
- Information Rights
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Intellectual Property
- Invention Assignment
- Investor Rights Agreement
- Issued Shares
- Issuer
- Joinder
- Junior Debt
- Key Employee
- Lead Investor
- Letter of Intent
- License
- Limited Liability Company
- Liquidity Event
- Major Investor
- Management Rights
- Material Adverse Change
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Minimum Viable Product
- No-Shop Clause
- Non-Competition Agreement
- Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- Non-Participating
- Non-Qualified Stock Option
- Non-Solicitation Clause
- Ordinary Income Tax
- Outstanding Shares
- Oversubscription
- Par Value
- Participating Preferred Stock
- Pass-Through Entity
- Portfolio
- Post-Money Valuation
- Pre-Money Valuation
- Preemptive Rights
- Preferred Stock
- Price Per Share
- Private Company
- Private Equity
- Promissory Note
- Protective Provisions
- Public Company
- Qualified Financing
- Qualified Small Business Stock
- Recapitalization
- Registered Agent
- Reorganization
- Representations and Warranties
- Restricted Stock
- Rights of First Refusal
- Round
- Runway
- SaaS - Software As A Service
- Secured Debt
- Security Interest
- Seed Round
- Senior Debt
- Series A
- Series B (or C, D, E, F…)
- Shareholder Agreement
- Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE)
- Single-Trigger Acceleration
- Stock Purchase Agreement
- Term Sheet
- Trademark
- Unicorn
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Unsecured Debt
- Venture Capital
- Vested
- Vesting Schedule
- Voting Rights
- Waterfall