Legal Matters

Page Summary: Legal matters around company incorporation, term sheet, and financing.

Incorporation paperwork

See📄Step 3: File incorporation paperworkarrow-up-right

Term sheet

For OCV company’s Seed round:

  1. Options pool expectation: see

  2. Board seat: see Board Composition

  3. Terms not to be in conflict with OCV’s safe side letterarrow-up-right

Preferred financing round

OCV expects the following rights in our companies Seed Preferred financing round:

  1. Major Investor status - impacts information, pro-rata, inspection, right of first refusal, and co-sale rights

  2. Qualified Key Holder status - first common director seat and drag-along trigger are tied to the vote of a majority of Qualified Key Holders

  3. Drag-along triggers are not typically exercised in practice and generally not a point of contention

  4. The ability to vote for common director board seats is an important right for OCV given our ownership stake (especially common shares) in OCV companies

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