By entering Series B, startups might already figure out their product-market fit and doing great at their business. Now the series B funding for them is all for Expansion, development and concentrates more on team building.

If you are at the ideation stage, you will start with borrowings/loans from your family, friends, and from your savings.

this is called Bootstrapping or Pre-Seed funding. At this stage startups mostly concentrate on building MVP( Minimum Viable Product).

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If the startup fails to utilize the first round and get in some results, it gets difficult for them to move to the second round of funding that is, Series A funding.

After seed funding now you'll get series funding. There'll be A, B, C series mostly and sometimes D&E too.

Series C funding is done mostly by successful and good revenue-generating startups. This funding is used for introducing new products, acquiring other startups, and mostly to stand out from their competitors.

Funding stages :

Bootstrap/Pre-Seed > Seed Funding > Series A >Series B > Series C >(Series D&E) or >IPO.

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And next comes Seed funding, it's the stage when Angel investors invest in startups by seeing their MVP, vision, and confidence of startup growth.

While this is the starting stage for many startups, it is also a ‘wrapping up’ stage

Once the start-up made some traction and got visibility with its product in the market, it'll eligible for Series A funding. In this round, startups are expected to have ideas about future development and revenue generation. 

By series A, startups mostly concentrate to increase revenue and ...