Pro rata is a Latin term meaning "in proportion" which is often used in the tech and venture capital world when it comes to deciding on how value in a company is split. Mike Vernal, a partner at ...

With rumblings growing about the Big 12 possibly adding Gonzaga, some extra context has been reported about the pro rata clause included in the conference’s new media rights deals. First, as reported ...

Pro-rata rights are one of the most important rights of private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are ...

In the context of a term sheet, pro rata rights (or pro rata) govern whether investors may continue to invest in subsequent rounds of funding in proportion with their ownership. Investors with pro ...

Lee Edwards, partner at Root VC, has a saying at his firm that “pro rata rights are earned, not given.” That may be a bit of a stretch since pro rata refers to a term that VCs put in their term sheets ...