Technology-enabled startup companies have many unique needs, one being the need to raise capital to rapidly grow their businesses. This paper explores the following key topics related to technology-enabled startup companies:

• Preliminary concepts relating to the funding of a high-growth startup company
• How startups are valued, why it is difficult to value a startup company in the early stages of development, and ways that investors and companies address this difficulty
• The three investment structures that are commonly implemented in the early stages of a startup company’s development

This paper was presented at LESA’s Advising Tech-Enabled Startup Companies webinar on May 30, 2023.