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In 2019, 41 percent of companies reached a Series A within eighteen to twenty-four months of their seed round. By late 2...
03/09/2026

In 2019, 41 percent of companies reached a Series A within eighteen to twenty-four months of their seed round. By late 2025 that was down to 23 percent, while the share taking three or more years went from 19 percent to 39 percent.

Most seed rounds are still sized against the old number. J.P. Morgan's own read is that the eighteen to twenty-four month rule of thumb "would have left some founders short."

The headline medians tell a milder story, and there is a reason they are misleading.

The full piece is here:
🔗 https://angelhive.io/blog/the-road-to-series-a-is-longer-than-your-runway-plan

Most first-time angels focus all their planning on the first check and none on the second. Then a company starts working...
02/09/2026

Most first-time angels focus all their planning on the first check and none on the second. Then a company starts working, and they don't have the capital to keep their stake from shrinking.

This carousel covers the honest math behind follow-on investing: what pro-rata actually protects, why reserving capital upfront matters more than most angels realise, and how to decide when doubling down is actually the right call.

Good mentorship rarely means handing someone the answer. It means helping them see which way to go when every option loo...
01/09/2026

Good mentorship rarely means handing someone the answer. It means helping them see which way to go when every option looks plausible.

AngelHive connects founders with mentors who've navigated the same terrain.

🔗 angelhive.io/mentors

Before accepting the higher valuation, three questions: what revenue justifies a 2 to 3 times step-up on this price, is ...
27/08/2026

Before accepting the higher valuation, three questions: what revenue justifies a 2 to 3 times step-up on this price, is the premium pricing your company or your category, and what milestone does this round have to reach?

This is not an argument that smaller is always better. In capital-intensive categories, undercapitalizing kills more companies than overpricing does. The distinction is whether the number is attached to a plan.

Full piece here:

🔗 https://angelhive.io/blog/a-valuation-is-a-promise-you-have-to-keep

Founders are told to get a lawyer before signing a term sheet, and that's good advice. But you'll read the term sheet be...
26/08/2026

Founders are told to get a lawyer before signing a term sheet, and that's good advice. But you'll read the term sheet before your lawyer does, and understanding it yourself is what turns that legal call into a strategy conversation instead of a translation session.

This carousel breaks down the option pool trap, liquidation preference double-dips, and anti-dilution terms every founder should recognise on sight.

Casting a wide net feels productive, but it mostly gives you more to throw back. Breadth without relevance is just extra...
25/08/2026

Casting a wide net feels productive, but it mostly gives you more to throw back. Breadth without relevance is just extra work.

AngelHive lets you fish with a line instead, matched to your thesis, stage, and sector.

🔗 angelhive.io/investors

🐝 Founders, this one's for you!Once a month, the Balearic Business Angels meet over lunch to talk shop and dig into star...
21/08/2026

🐝 Founders, this one's for you!

Once a month, the Balearic Business Angels meet over lunch to talk shop and dig into startups worth watching. We've got 3 spots for founders in our community to be featured and discussed right at that table.

No long forms. No pitch deck marathon. Just your startup in front of people ready to invest.

Apply before 10th September

Tag a founder who needs to see this 👀

Seed valuations hit a record 24 million post-money and Series A jumped 37 percent. Good news, mostly.The part that gets ...
20/08/2026

Seed valuations hit a record 24 million post-money and Series A jumped 37 percent. Good news, mostly.

The part that gets less attention: the seed-to-Series-A step-up investors expect has compressed to about 2.6 times from 4.2 times in 2021, and only about 38 percent of seed companies now reach a Series A at all, down from roughly half.

Entry prices are up. The multiple you will be measured against is down. We wrote about what sits in that gap.

Full piece here:

🔗 https://angelhive.io/blog/a-valuation-is-a-promise-you-have-to-keep

Most investors would rather forget the deals they passed on, especially the ones that turned into big wins for someone e...
19/08/2026

Most investors would rather forget the deals they passed on, especially the ones that turned into big wins for someone else. The disciplined ones write them down instead.

An anti-portfolio isn't a scoreboard. It's a way of checking whether your reasons for passing actually hold up, or whether they were just comfortable ones at the time. This carousel walks through how to build one.

The hard part of fundraising usually isn't the pitch. It's knowing which doors are worth your time before you knock on a...
18/08/2026

The hard part of fundraising usually isn't the pitch. It's knowing which doors are worth your time before you knock on all of them.

AngelHive matches you to the investors whose focus lines up with what you're building.

🔗 angelhive.io/startups

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