Investor Relations — Deal Calculator
Anchor the benchmark, derive the equity
Fixed equity % is cheque amount over implied post-money valuation — never a number that floats on its own. Configure the benchmark deal and next-round assumptions here; the investor-relations calculator derives its fixed equity from them.
Implied post-money
$7.14M
Max fixed equity
0.28%
New investors
6.98%
Investor after round
0.2325%
Founders after round
82.79%
Benchmark deal
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Max fixed equity for this cheque0.28%
Based on: 7% for $500,000 · Implied valuation: $7.14M post-money.
Next-round assumptions
Founders after round82.79%
Investor after round0.2325%
Changes persist in this browser and drive the fixed-equity field on the investor-relations calculator. Defaults: $500,000 for 7%, $20,000 actual cheque.
What you can vary — and the founder-friendly move
- Benchmark cheque
- $500,000 — A higher benchmark cheque makes a small investor get less equity.
- Benchmark equity
- 7% — Lower benchmark equity makes a small investor get less equity.
- Implied post-money
- $7.14M — This is the real anchor. Protect it.
- Actual cheque
- $20,000 — If the cheque stays small, equity must stay small.
- Fixed equity %
- 0.28% max — Derived from the benchmark — do not let this float independently.
- SAFE allocation
- Optional — Put extra economics into a SAFE, not fixed equity.
- SAFE cap
- Optional — Avoid a low cap; a valuation cap is a ceiling on the conversion price.
- SAFE discount
- Optional — Avoid high discounts — they reduce the conversion price versus the priced round.
- MFN clause
- Optional — Be careful: an MFN SAFE can piggyback onto better future convertible terms.
- Round pre-money
- $40M — A higher valuation reduces priced-round dilution.
- New capital raised
- $3M — Raising more capital usually increases dilution.
- New option pool
- 10% — Negotiate this tightly; creating or resizing a pool dilutes founders.
Bottom line
- Lock the investor's $20,000 fixed equity at 0.28% max
- Let the negotiable variables be SAFE amount, SAFE cap / discount / MFN, option-pool size, and next-round raise assumptions