Pro-rata rights are one of the most important rights of private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are ...

In the context of a term sheet, pro rata rights (or pro rata) govern whether investors may continue to invest in subsequent rounds of funding in proportion with their ownership. Investors with pro ...

Pro rata rights or proportional rights let existing investors keep their ownership stake by investing more when a company raises funding. Pro rata rights, sometimes called proportional rights, are ...

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