YC Safe Financing Documents | Y Combinator

7 Startup Agreements That Save Companies (and Friendships) | Signus

Founder blowups and cap-table surprises are mostly preventable. A focused seven-document set—Founders Agreement, SAFE (Post-Money), Mutual NDA, Independent Contractor Agreement, Advisory Agreement, Consulting Agreement, and PIIA—closes the early gaps that orphan IP, muddle equity, and stall deals. Right-size what you send; use the subset that fits the moment. Clarity beats memory.

Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE): Definition, Benefits, and Risks

A simple agreement for future equity (SAFE) is a seed-funding instrument that issues equity rights to be converted at a later date if triggered.

Requests for Startups | Y Combinator

Y Combinator is looking for startups working on these ideas. If you're working on something we're interested in, we'd love to hear from you.

Sidecar funds, corporate vehicles, club deals: how do startup studios get financed?

As explained in The Rise of Startup Studios, a white paper published by The Global Startup Studio Network in 2019, the term “startup…

Funds that lead pre-seeds — Curated VC Funds

A curated list of investors who write first checks at the earliest stage, backing founders before traction when conviction matters most. View this sheet and more on VC Sheet, where founders find the right investors for their round. Curated by Mat Vogels.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT): Cooperative governance for network innovation, standards, and community

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This book traces the history and development of a mutual organization in the financial sector called SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Over the last forty years, SWIFT has served the financial services sector as proprietary communications platform, provider of products and services, standards developer, and conference organizer ("Sibos"). Founded to create efficiencies by replacing telegram and telex (or ‘wires’) for international payments, SWIFT now forms a core part of the financial services infrastructure. It is widely regarded as the most secure trusted third party network in the world serving 212 countries and over 10,000 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers. Through every phase of its development, SWIFT has maintained the status of industry cooperative thus presenting an opportunity to study broader themes of globalization and governance in the financial services sector. In this book the authors focus on how the design and current state of SWIFT was influenced by its historical origins, presenting a comprehensive account in a succinct form which provides an informative guide to the history, structure, activities and future challenges of this key international organization. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in a wide range of fields including IPE, comparative political economy, international economics, business studies and business history.

Three essential contracts that protect a startup’s intellectual property – Fisher Hudson Brown Horton

Idaho and California startups should be aware of which types of contracts are essential to protect their intellectual property.

NDAs for Startups: A Guide for Founders | Stripe

Here’s a guide to NDAs for startups—from why your startup might need an NDA to what happens if one is breached.

Startup Idea Validator 2026 - AI Market Analysis in 120s | IdeaProof

AI startup validator with TAM/SAM/SOM analysis, competitor SWOT, investor-ready plans + AI brand strategy, logo design & marketing creatives. 10 min. Free.

Brad Neuberg on Twitter / X

Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization since most of the technology they depend on is already mostly developed. This was true pre-2015 where startups depended on commodity open source software, the smartphone capitalized by Apple and others, cloud…— Brad Neuberg (@bradneuberg) September 16, 2024

The Capital Stack

A framework for capital-efficient deployment of funds into mobile user acquisition