5min
Module 1: The Funding Landscape
Module 2: The Pre-Seed and Seed Stage
Module 3: The Series A Stage
Module 4: Later Stage Funding (Series B and Beyond)
Module 5: The Fundraising Process
10/16 Lessons
Content
Assignment
By the time you reach the later stages of funding, your startup is no longer a small, uncertain venture. It is a well-oiled machine with a proven business model and a clear path to growth. Later-stage funding is all about providing the capital needed to dramatically scale that success.

1. Series B: The "Scaling Up" Round
A Series B round typically follows a successful Series A. The purpose is to scale the business to meet the growing market demand. Investors at this stage are looking for:
A Proven Business Model: You have a strong, repeatable sales and marketing machine.
Expansion: You have a clear plan to expand your product, team, and market share.
Predictable Growth: Your metrics show consistent, predictable, and accelerated growth.
Funding from a Series B round is used to build out departments (e.g., sales, marketing, engineering) and to grab a dominant position in the market.
2. Series C and D: Accelerating Growth
Once you've secured Series B, later rounds like Series C and D are all about accelerating growth and preparing for an exit.

Purpose:
The goal is to pour gasoline on the fire. This funding is used for things like global expansion, mergers and acquisitions, and developing new products to maintain a market-leading position.

Investors:
The investors in these rounds are larger, more established venture capital firms, as well as growth equity and private equity firms. They are less focused on the risk and more on the opportunity for a massive return.
