Emerging Companies & Venture Capital |
Startup, Emerging & Growth Companies

Startup, Emerging & Growth Companies

Startup, emerging & growth companies look to Lowenstein to provide the market connectivity and strategic guidance needed to bring their ideas to fruition, from forming businesses, early through growth stage financings, to ultimately successful and lucrative exits.

Many of our startup lawyers are also active entrepreneurs and investors themselves, which provides a unique understanding of our client’s needs and the ability to anticipate them. Our clients rely on us as trusted partners to provide tactful guidance – often acting as outside general counsel.

We provide a broad range of services to our Startup, Emerging & Growth Company clients, including:

Corporate formation
Intellectual property counsel including patent prosecution, portfolio management, trademark and copyright consulting
Day-to-day operations, including employment, compensation, and tax issues
Seed, growth, venture, private equity, and debt funding
Complex transactions and market term negotiations
Commercial contracts and licensing agreements
Privacy and data protection counsel
Exits, including IPOs, going private, and mergers & acquisitions

Connectivity to the Venture Marketplace

Because we understand the entrepreneurial mindset and the need to be connected to other entrepreneurs and to early-stage investing, we have built some of the most well-respected educational and networking experiences in the venture community through our VentureCrush events and other programs.

Our VentureCrush platform provides support and connectivity to the venture marketplace through the participation of hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators.

Practice Leadership

Ed Zimmerman
Partner
Chair and Co-Founder, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (fka, The Tech Group)

Anthony O. Pergola
Partner
Vice Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

Raymond P. Thek
Partner
Vice Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

Anthony W. Raymundo
Partner
Office Managing Partner, Palo Alto

Eric Weiner
Partner
Co-chair, Lowenstein Crypto

EXPERIENCE

Represented Dayforward, a digital life insurance company built for modern families, in a $25 million round of funding led by AXA Venture Partners.

Represented Saltbox, Inc., a flexible co-warehousing and small business logistics company, in its $35 million Series B funding round.

Represented Ejara, Inc., a French company providing blockchain-based financial services throughout Francophone Africa, in its $8 million Series A capital funding round.

Represented Resilience Lab, a mental health-tech company, in its $15 million Series A funding round.

Represented Mercantile, an industry-specific credit card platform designed for small businesses, in its $15 million Series A funding round.

Represented Brave Health, a virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations, in its $40 million Series C funding round.

Represented Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company, in its $15 million Series A funding round.

Represented VTS, a commercial real estate technology platform, in its Series E funding round totaling over $125 million.

Represented Alloy, an identity decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies, in its $52 million funding round.

Represented Fairmarkit, an automated sourcing platform, in its $35.6 million Series C funding round.

Represented Centivo, an innovative provider of health plans for self-insured, in its $30 million Series B-1 Extension funding round.

Represented Assembly OSM, a modular construction startup, in its $38 million Series A funding round.

Represented Floor, a token-gated non-fungible token (NFT) portfolio tracking platform, in its Series A funding round.

Represented Branch, home and auto insurance company, in its $147 million Series C funding round.

Represented LayerZero Labs Ltd., a provider of omnichain crypto networks, in its $135 million Series A funding round.

Represented Hex, a platform for collaborative analytics and data science, in its $52 million Series B funding round.

Represented Argyle, an employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned employment records in real time, in its Series B funding round.

Represented Canela Media, Inc., a minority-owned digital media technology company, in the completion of an oversubscribed $32 million Series A funding round.

Represented Big Health, a digital therapeutics company dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, in its $75 million Series C funding round.

Experience

Represented Dayforward, a digital life insurance company built for modern families, in a $25 million round of funding led by AXA Venture Partners.
Represented Saltbox, Inc., a flexible co-warehousing and small business logistics company, in its $35 million Series B funding round.
Represented Ejara, Inc., a French company providing blockchain-based financial services throughout Francophone Africa, in its $8 million Series A capital funding round.
Represented Resilience Lab, a mental health-tech company, in its $15 million Series A funding round.
Represented Mercantile, an industry-specific credit card platform designed for small businesses, in its $15 million Series A funding round.
Represented Brave Health, a virtual mental health provider and engagement platform focused on serving Medicaid populations, in its $40 million Series C funding round.
Represented Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company, in its $15 million Series A funding round.
Represented VTS, a commercial real estate technology platform, in its Series E funding round totaling over $125 million.
Represented Alloy, an identity decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies, in its $52 million funding round.
Represented Fairmarkit, an automated sourcing platform, in its $35.6 million Series C funding round.
Represented Centivo, an innovative provider of health plans for self-insured, in its $30 million Series B-1 Extension funding round.
Represented Assembly OSM, a modular construction startup, in its $38 million Series A funding round.
Represented Floor, a token-gated non-fungible token (NFT) portfolio tracking platform, in its Series A funding round.
Represented Branch, home and auto insurance company, in its $147 million Series C funding round.
Represented LayerZero Labs Ltd., a provider of omnichain crypto networks, in its $135 million Series A funding round.
Represented Hex, a platform for collaborative analytics and data science, in its $52 million Series B funding round.
Represented Argyle, an employment data platform that provides companies access to user-permissioned employment records in real time, in its Series B funding round.
Represented Canela Media, Inc., a minority-owned digital media technology company, in the completion of an oversubscribed $32 million Series A funding round.
Represented Big Health, a digital therapeutics company dedicated to helping millions back to good mental health, in its $75 million Series C funding round.