What if you raise at $8M vs $12M? What if you give the CTO 2% vs 4%? See exactly how different deal terms change your equity — side by side.
Ownership across funding rounds
Ownership across funding rounds
How much would each founder walk away with at different exit valuations?
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View Premium Report →Comparing funding scenarios means calculating your final founder ownership after accounting for valuation, investment amount, and option pool size. The key formula:
Post-Money Valuation = Pre-Money Valuation + Investment Amount
Your Dilution = Investment Amount / Post-Money Valuation
Option pool impact: Investors often require an unallocated option pool (10–20%) for future hires. If structured as pre-money, founders bear the dilution. If post-money, investors share dilution. This significantly affects founder ownership.
Worked example: Scenario A: $8M pre-money, $2M investment, no option pool. Post-money = $10M. Your dilution = $2M / $10M = 20%. If you owned 100%, you keep 80%. Scenario B: $10M pre-money, $2M investment, 20% pre-money option pool. Post-money = $12M. Dilution from investment = $2M / $12M = 16.7%. Plus 20% option pool = 36.7% total dilution. You keep 63.3%. Lower valuation with no option pool may beat higher valuation with option pool.
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