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11 December 2025

Introducing Series SAFE Preferred: A New Venture Financing Tool

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Mintz has launched Series SAFE Preferred, a newly designed early-stage financing security that blends the efficiency of a SAFE with the structural clarity of preferred stock.
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Mintz has launched Series SAFE Preferred, a newly designed early-stage financing security that blends the efficiency of a SAFE with the structural clarity of preferred stock.

What it is:

Series SAFE Preferred offers the familiar simplicity of Y Combinator's SAFE while issuing actual preferred stock under a filed charter. This provides investors with stockholder rights from the outset without changing the economic terms that make SAFEs attractive to founders.

Key advantages:

  • Preserves hallmark SAFE economics and ease of use
  • Provides investors with the rights and protections associated with preferred stock
  • Offers greater certainty around eligibility for the IRC Section 1202 Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) capital gains exemption

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