Angel investors are persons or group of industry professionals who are willing to fund the venture in return for an equity stake. The investment done by angel investor must shall be locked in for the period of one year. They are usually successful entrepreneur or retired business executive.
• Bridge Round
It is the sort of financing option where the startup or any company tries to ‘’bridge’’ the gap between larger funding round. It is an interim financing round raised between larger funding rounds. Startups always first targets the their existing investors during the bridge round and raise from new investors if only additional funding is needed.
• Series Funding
Series funding is the multi round process where a startups raise capital from investors in exchange of equity of the company. After the seed funding or Angel funding round and bridge funding round, series has been completed series funding round will start like Series A to Z. Series preferred stock is the first round of stock offered during the seed or early stage round by a portfolio company to the venture capital investor.