Reg CF & Reg A+ Market · Daily

The market is open. Almost nobody is watching it.

Thousands of companies raise from the public every year, each filing terms with the SEC. Together that is a real market with observable pricing — and it is covered almost entirely by people being paid to promote individual deals. We cover the market instead.

One raise vs. the market
This deal
Comparable raises
Pre-money valuation
Higher
Median for stage
Instrument
SAFE, no discount
Typically discounted
Minimum to close
Low
Varies widely

Illustrative structure only. A single offering tells you very little; the same offering priced against everything else raising that month tells you a great deal.

What We Track

Terms, flow, and the platforms in between

Three things make this a market rather than a pile of unrelated pitches — and all three are observable from public filings.

01 / TERMS

What is being asked

Valuations, caps, discounts, instruments, and minimums across live raises. Terms drift by sector and by month, and that drift is the most useful signal here.

02 / FLOW

Where capital is going

Which sectors and stages are filling quickly, which are struggling to close, and how fast. Demand is what actually disciplines pricing in this market.

03 / PLATFORMS

Who is carrying what

How registered portals differ in what they list, what diligence they do, what they charge, and what happens to your money when a raise fails to close.

Inside Each Issue

What lands in your inbox each morning

1

What is live, and how it compares

Current raises set against similar deals at the same stage in the same window.

2

Structures worth understanding

Drawn from filed documents, not campaign pages. The two often disagree.

3

Headline price vs. effective price

Valuation, instrument, and cap together decide what you actually pay per share.

4

Platform mechanics

Fees, escrow, minimums, and what a failed raise means for money you have committed.

5

The case against

Every deal type has a failure mode. We state it rather than implying there isn't one.

6

Full compensation disclosure

If anyone connected to a company or platform paid us, it says so at the top.

Method

How we choose what to write about

Start from filings

Form C, offering circulars, and platform disclosures — never a sponsored placement.

Compare

A term only means something next to what else is being offered at the same stage.

Check the arithmetic

Effective price per share frequently disagrees with the headline valuation.

Publish

Risks intact, every commercial relationship disclosed up front.

The Textbook and the Tape

If you want the mechanics, start next door

Early Investor teaches how these instruments work — what a SAFE is, what a valuation cap does to your ownership, how dilution accumulates across rounds. It is the textbook.

Ground Floor Capital covers the live market: what is actually being offered, at what price, and how that compares to what came before. It is the tape. Most readers want both, and both are free.

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