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Enter a fund size, the fund's stake, and the later rounds. See the exit that returns the whole fund, and what your exit means to the fund.

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The exit that returns the fund

A fund buys part of a company at seed. Set the fund size, the stake, and the later rounds. See how large the sale must be.

$100M
15%
$200M
Later rounds before the exit

Series A and Series B, at the median dilution.

Fund owns at the exit
10.56%
15% at seed
Exit that returns the fund
$946.89M
$100M ÷ 10.56%
Your exit returns
21% of the fund
$21.12M to the fund

The fund buys 15% and does not buy more. Series A and Series B dilute it to 10.56%: 15% × (1 − 18.7%) × (1 − 13.4%). To get its $100M back from this one company, the company must sell for $946.89M.

A $200M sale pays the fund $21.12M, which is 21% of the fund. That is a good result, but the fund must find a larger winner somewhere in its portfolio.

Exit that returns the fund, at 10.56% ownership

$25M fund
$236.72M
$100M fund
$946.89M
$500M fund
$4.73B
$2B fund
$18.94B
The fund does not buy more shares later, and it gets its percentage of the sale price. Liquidation preferences can change the payout in small sales. Each later round dilutes by the Carta median: Q2 2026 for Series A and B, Q1 2026 for Series C and D.