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There are a few sets of “standard” funding documents out there. (One of our favorite posts was in response to various lawyers who were offering to create a new set of funding documents that incorporated the “best” of all available free forms.) We haven’t reviewed them all, but they are probably worth reviewing. For example:
National Venture Capital Association: http://alturl.com/oxdjt
Y Combinator: http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa/
Techstars put up equity and debt documents done by Cooley LLP: http://www.techstars.com/docs/
A term sheet for “plain preferred” put up by Founder Institute: http://fi.co/posts/69
GitHub and Series Seed have put up a comprehensive set at: https://github.com/seriesseed/equity
And an intriguing list of international documents: http://seedsummit.org/legal-docs/
