Emergent Ventures Averages Three to Four Weeks to Close Deals
Anupam Rastogi · Behind The Term Sheet: How this $76m Seed Stage Fund Really Works · Sep 22, 2023 · at 14:20
Emergent Ventures partner Anupam Rastogi details deal closing timelines from initial contact to completed paperwork with host Nathan Latka.
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“Safe rounds, pretty clean. We can do it in as little as a few days, and we have done it. And then in some cases where there's complex, you know, we have quite a few cross geography companies. So all our companies are US market focused, but we have quite a few companies that are building in places like India. We also have companies from places like, you know, Europe and other places. But sometimes those require more work and more legal review, and sometimes they may require changing the structure. Which the founders and you're planning to do. And those could take, you know, a few months to three months. That's a median is probably three, four weeks.”
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