Mezzanine Financing

An ‘exit’ is when a founder leaves a startup. For many founders, this is something they’ve planned for from day one, perhaps even hoping to build a unicorn company. They created the startup with the plan of cashing out at some point by selling ownership of the company either to investors or to another company.

Valuation methods are the methods for calculating how much a company is worth now or how much it will be worth in the future.

Dividends are a portion of a company's profit that is paid out to each shareholder, in addition to any gains a shareholder gets when the price of the company's stock increases.