--- title: "What is a Series A round? | Datahyena" url: https://datahyena.com/glossary/series-a/ description: "A Series A is a startup" --- [โ† Glossary](https://datahyena.com/glossary) # Series A A Series A is a company's first major priced venture round after the seed stage, raised once it has early traction, to scale the product, team, and go-to-market. By the time a company raises a Series A, it has usually moved past finding product-market fit and is looking to scale: growing the team, investing in sales and marketing, and turning early traction into repeatable growth. The Series A is typically the first round led by an institutional venture fund that takes a board seat. Series A rounds are larger than seed rounds and come with more diligence, clearer metrics expectations, and a formal term sheet. The round is named for the class of preferred stock issued to investors (Series A preferred). A Series A is a strong intent signal for sales and partnerships teams: the company now has real budget, is hiring across functions, and is actively building out its stack. In Datahyena Series A rounds appear in the funding-events feed with round set to 'series_a', the amount, the lead and participating investors, the date, and the sources that reported it, available from GET /v1/funding-events. [Get your API key โ†’](https://app.datahyena.com/register) [View the API](https://datahyena.com/docs/api-reference) Related terms - [Seed round](https://datahyena.com/glossary/seed-round) - [Series B](https://datahyena.com/glossary/series-b) - [Term sheet](https://datahyena.com/glossary/term-sheet) ## Common questions More on series a. What's the difference between seed and Series A? Seed funds finding product-market fit; Series A funds scaling a product that already has traction, and is usually the first round led by an institutional venture fund. Does every company raise a Series A? No. Some companies become profitable on seed funding, some raise bridge rounds instead, and some never need venture capital at all. ## Start pulling signals in minutes. Create a key, claim your 50 free credits, and make your first request today. No sales call, no credit card. [Get your API key โ†’](https://app.datahyena.com/register) [Read the docs](https://datahyena.com/docs) 50 free credits ยท no credit card