Series A
A startup's first large round from venture capital investors, usually after a seed round.
What Series A means
A Series A is typically the first round in which a startup sells preferred shares to venture capital firms at an agreed valuation, with one firm leading. It usually follows pre-seed and seed rounds and is followed by Series B, C, and later rounds.
Investors at Series A look for evidence that the product has found a market. A company that has just raised one tends to hire and spend over the following year, which is why sales and recruiting teams track new rounds.
Clair's Crunchbase organization endpoint returns funding with the number of rounds, last_funding_type, such as series_a, and the number of investors.
How it appears in a response
GET /v1/crunchbase/organization?permalink=stripe · organization.funding
{
"rounds_count": 25,
"last_funding_type": "secondary_market",
"investors_count": 74
}
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