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Startup stages & company states · Core

Self-funded

Also called: founder-funded

ELI5

Paid for by the founders or the business itself.

Used in conversation

“The company was self-funded through its first two years.”

Definition

Financed by founders or operating income without external institutional capital.

Here “Self-funded” means: Financed by founders or operating income without external institutional capital.

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.