Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CRAM DOWN ROUND
  
  a financing event upon which new investors with substantial capital are able to demand and receive contractual terms that effectively cause the issuance of sufficient new shares by the startup company to significantly reduce ("dilute") the ownership percentage of previous investors.
  
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