Does funding rounds dilute equity or change equity structure?

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October 26, 2020

by a searcher from WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Düsseldorf, Germany

Dear Searchfunder community,

I reach out to you all asking for orientation on the following. Since the search funds take two funding rounds (One for the search and one for the acquisition of the target company) the question is:

Similarly to funding rounds for Startups, does the search funds' equity structure change (and maybe dilutes ownership) for the investors and entrepreneurs with every funding round?

I'm maybe assuming the funds for the search and the funds for the acquisition are treated as two separate funding rounds. Or it is something that depends entirely on the negotiations between searchers and investors.

As a side note, I'm currently writing my Master thesis and I'm including a fictional acquisition of a nursing home. I will appreciate any help or orientation.

Rodrigo.

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from Harvard University in Plano, TX, USA
Yes, take a look through the Stanford Search Fund Primer. You can also make a copy of this calculator and edit the amount invested in the search fund round to assess its impact on IRR and therefore searcher equity. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nbky_1NkVjkyW-5ENkcpeFihvdGZYKEOuhhrYaJZnDI/edit?usp=sharing
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from University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA, USA
Yes of course. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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