Glossary
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- C Corporation (C-Corp)
- Cap Table
- Capital Stock
- Capped Participation Liquidation Preference
- CFIUS Covenants
- Change of Control
- Charter or Certificate of Incorporation (In General)
- Closing and Closing Date (VC Financing)
- Common Stock
- Conditions to Closing
- Consideration for Founders’ Shares
- Consulting Agreement
- Convertible Indebtedness
- Convertible Note (Convertible Promissory Note)
- Convertible Note Closing Date
- Convertible Note Conversion Price
- Convertible Note Loan Amount
- Convertible Security
- Copyrights
- Corporation
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- Fiduciary Duties
- Foreign Corporation
- Foreign Qualification
- Form 1120
- Form 940
- Form I-9
- Form of Notice of Issuance for Founders’ Stock
- Form W-4
- Founder Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement (RSPA)
- Founders’ Preferred
- Founders’ Stock (Founders’ Shares)
- Franchise Tax
- Full Participation Preferred Liquidation Preference
- Fully Diluted
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- Imposing Vesting on Founders’ Stock
- Incentive Stock Options (ISOs)
- Incorporation Questionnaire
- Incorporator
- Incremental Vesting
- Indemnification Agreement for Directors and Officers
- Initial Capitalization
- Initial Officers
- Initial Size of Board of Directors
- Initial Stockholder Consent
- Intellectual Property
- Interest
- Investor Requirements Employee Equity
- Investors (noteholders)
- Investors (VC Financing)
- Investors' Rights Agreement
- IPO
- Issues regarding Existing Preferred Stock
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M
- Major Investor Threshold
- Management Rights
- Management Rights and Information Rights
- Mandatory Conversion
- Market Stand-off / Lock-Up (VC Financing)
- Market Standoff / Lock-up
- Material Transactions (409A)
- Matters Requiring Preferred Director Approval
- Maturity Date
- Most Favored Nation (MFN) Right (Convertible Notes)
- Most Favored Nation (MFN) Right (SAFE)
- Multiple Investors (noteholders)
- Mutual NDA
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- Name of Corporation
- No-Shop/Confidentiality
- Non-Competition Agreement Covenant (VC Financing)
- Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- Non-Disclosure, Non-Solicitation and Developments Agreements Covenant (VC Financing)
- Non-participating Preferred (Simple Preferred) Liquidation Preference
- Non-Statutory Stock Options (NSOs)
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P
- Par Value Per Share
- Pari Passu
- Pari Passu (Blended) Liquidation Preference
- Participation Rights or Pro Rata Rights or Rights of First Offer (ROFO)
- Patents
- Pay-to-Play
- Piggyback Registration
- Post-Money Valuation
- Post-Termination Exercise Period
- Pre-Money Valuation
- Preferred Stock
- Principal
- Principal Office
- Proceeds
- Promised Options
- Proprietary Information and Invention Assignment Agreement (PIIA)
- Protective Provisions
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- Redemption Rights
- Registered Agent
- Registrable Securities
- Registration Expenses
- Registration on Form S-3
- Registration Rights
- Representations and Warranties (VC Financing)
- Restricted Stock Awards (RSAs)
- Restricted Stock Purchase Award Agreement
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Right of First Refusal (ROFR) - Founder’s Shares
- Right of First Refusal/Co-Sale Agreement
- Right of First Refusal/Right of Co-Sale (Take-Me-Along)
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- S Corporation (S-Corp)
- SAFE
- SAFE Closing Steps
- SAFE Conversion Price
- SAFE Conversion Triggering Event
- SAFE Discount
- SAFE Liquidity Price
- SAFE Valuation Cap
- SAFE Valuation Cap + Discount
- Section 409A
- Section 409A Valuation
- Security
- Shadow Series of Preferred Stock
- Side Letter Agreement
- Single-Trigger Acceleration
- SPAC
- Springing CFIUS Covenant
- Stacked Liquidation Preferences
- State of Incorporation (Jurisdiction of Organization)
- Stock (Option) Pool
- Stock Bonus Awards
- Stock Options
- Stock Purchase Agreement (VC Financing)
- Stockholders
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