Top 4 Venture Capital Insurance Claims from Investors
This is the third installment in Founder Shield’s venture capital (VC)-Focused series and explains venture capital insurance claims VCs might face from their investors. If you’d like to learn more about the basics of what these insurance policies do and don’t cover, check out our intro post as well as our post about regulatory investigations.
Venture Capital Insurance and the SEC
In our first post on venture capital insurance, we took a high level view of four scenarios where this management liability, professional liability, and employment practices liability insurance policy could protect you, your firm, and your investors. We also spoke about the potential costs of having — as well as not having — this liability
Venture Capital Insurance is an Investment, Not a Cost
This is the first of a series of articles we will be posting about the world of venture capital insurance.
The Top 3 Startup D&O Insurance Lawsuits / Claims
D&O Insurance is one of the most important types of insurance for startups. You’ll undoubtedly see it on the term sheet of the vast majority of institutional investors because it’s a big risk exposure for both you (the founder) personally and your investors.
We created a new Key Man insurance product…and it’s awesome.
Key man insurance for startups doesn’t really exist in the life insurance markets. There are a few reasons for this and I’ll explain the big ones.
Startups: Don’t Overlook Key Man Insurance
We usually talk about key man insurance with our clients in the wake of a freshly closed round of institutional funding. Investors typically make their portfolio companies get key man insurance to protect their own cash. They realize that at most startups, the team is the company. It takes a truly phenomenal team to guide