Everything Startups Need to Know About the SAFE Agreement

SAFE is simple but there are critical details to understand to avoid mistakes with investors

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
8 min readJun 27, 2022

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SAFE v1.1. Image by Author

Originally, the only way to invest in a startup was to buy equity — common or preferred shares.

But stock documents are complicated, and can take tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers’…

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