Valuation
What is Post-money Valuation?
Pre-money valuation plus the amount raised - the headline 'company value' after a round closes.
Post-money = pre-money + new capital raised. It's the simpler number to talk about publicly ('they raised at a $50M post-money'). The new investor's ownership share equals their investment ÷ post-money. Post-money is also the reference number for post-money SAFE caps - meaning the SAFE investor's percentage ownership is fixed by their cap as a percentage of post-money.