Start-ups & Venture Capital

HBA is particularly focused on emerging growth companies.  We have among the top rosters of venture-backed start-up clients of any boutique firm in our market, including wireless/mobile companies, social media and finance and investing sites, and local-level providers. 

Our attorneys have worked with the top names in venture capital both in New York and Silicon Valley, including Bain Venture Partners, Betaworks, Canaan Partners, Colombia Capital, Foundry Venture Partners, Greenhill SVAP, Greylock Partners, Harrison Metal Capital, Interwest Ventures, Menlo Partners, Spark Capital, Steamboat Ventures, True Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Valhalla Partners, 500 Startups.

Our practice is structured to represent emerging growth companies through every stage of their lifecycle and to provide ongoing day-to-day “Outside General Counsel” advice, as well as transactional services in connection with financings (formation, seed, convertible note, preferred equity), complex strategic transactions, and exits.

While we are primarily focused on working with founders, we also represent a number of top “angels” and as such, bring an investor’s perspective to the table, which informs our advice and perspective with both our start-up and investor clients.       

Notable clients/representations include:

Ambient Sound Investments OÜ, representing ASI on all U.S. portfolio investments, including Flowplay Inc., Blip Networks, Inc., Armorize, Inc., eGeen, Inc. and many others. HBA also acts for ASI in connection with sales of ASI’s portfolio companies.

Blip Networks, Inc., in connection with its formation through Series 2 Financing with Canaan Partners and Bain Venture Partners. HBA also designed the legal infrastructure for the company’s content and distribution strategy.

Bloomspot, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel and in connection with Series Seed, Series A and Series B rounds of financing.

Covestor, Inc., as U.S. corporate and IP counsel and in connection with its Series A financing led by Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures, and two internal follow-on rounds.

Embedly, Inc., as counsel for lead investor in connection with Series A financing co-led by Venture51 and Social Leverage.

Life 360 Inc., as counsel for lead investor in connection with Series A financing co-led by Venture51 and Bessemer Venture Partners.

One Beat Holdings, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel in connection with initial formation and structuring, and for convertible note rounds.

Paddle 8, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel in connection with initial formation and structuring, and for convertible note and Series A rounds of financing.

Parakweet Labs, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel, including various angel-led convertible note rounds.

Qnary Holdings, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel in connection with initial formation and structuring, and for convertible note rounds.

Roadify, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel and in connection with its angel financing, licensing, and sponsorship matters.

Social Leverage LLC, HBA formed this early stage investment vehicle and completed Series A-1 and A-2 Preferred Financings, as well as handling all portfolio work, including a convertible note financing of Ticketfly Inc., Series A financing of Betaworks LLC, Series A financing and convertible note financing of Tweetdeck Inc, Convertible note and Series A financings of Bit.ly, Inc., and many others.

Station Creator, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel.

StockTwits, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel and in connection with its Series A financing led by True Ventures and follow-on Series B and C financings led by True Ventures and Foundry Venture Group.

Styletrek, Inc., as corporate and IP counsel to this network of independent designers and retailers, backed by the founders of Stubhub.

Sympoz Inc., as corporate and IP counsel and in connection with its seed financing led by Harrison Metal Capital, Series A financing led by Foundry Venture Group, and Series B financing led by Tiger Global Management.

TrustYou, GmbH, as corporate counsel in connection with U.S. operations.

Venture 51 Capital Partners, as transactional counsel for this early-stage Phoenix-based fund, which invests principally in consumer-web, mobile and green related opportunities.