Metric · General Industry
Runway
The time a company can continue operating at its current burn rate before cash runs out. Investors and boards use it to decide when a fundraise or a scope cut must start.
- Also known as
- Cash runway
- Type
- Metric
- Domain
- General Industry, Programme jargon
Notes
A chip startup aims to have runway past first silicon and bring-up, because raising money on a design that has not yet been proven is far harder.
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