Pre-seed · Seed#1 CEE law firm for Venture Capital (Pitchbook)

Pre-seed & Seed.

While others are still scoping the engagement, we're filing the closing documents. We close seed financings in days, on terms that don't need rewriting at Series A.

SAFEs, convertible notes, convertible loans and priced equity built with the next round already in the room. Valuation caps, discounts, pro-rata, information rights, and cap-table hygiene tuned so institutional follow-on investors find nothing to fix.

Book a 30-min call

40+

Seed rounds closed per year

€2,390

Fixed-fee starting point

11 days

Average time to close pre-seed round

9/10

Founders close on our template

W h a ts e t su sa p a r t

Seed rounds closed in days, not months.

Built for founders who need to close on a startup clock, and for investors who want documents they've already signed a hundred times.

Founder-friendly defaults

Our template library ships with founder-favourable defaults on vesting, information rights, and board composition — so you negotiate from strength, not from a blank page.

Fund-side fluency

We represent many of the active seed funds in CEE. That means we draft from both sides of the table, anticipate the mark-ups before they arrive, and cut unnecessary round-trips.

Series-A ready documentation

Every document we draft is built to survive the next round's diligence. When the Series A lead opens your data room, they find a cap table that reconciles and governance that holds up.

Fixed-fee, quote-at-start

You know the bill before we start. No surprise invoice on the way to closing.

D e t a i l n ě

Five workstreams. One fixed fee. Nothing left open.

SAFE & convertible notes

We draft or review SAFE and convertible loan instruments with valuation caps, discounts, most favoured nation clauses, and pro-rata rights sized to the company's next round.

Priced seed rounds

Full seed round documentation when the lead investor wants priced equity: term sheet, shareholders' agreement, articles, investor rights letter, and closing mechanics.

Founder equity & vesting

Clean founder splits, reverse-vesting with acceleration triggers, and intellectual property assignments that hold up under investor diligence.

Cap table & special-purpose-vehicle hygiene

We set up the cap table that Series A investors will audit: clean ownership, option-pool sizing, angel SPV structures where needed.

Investor rights & governance at seed

Information rights, pre-emption, drag-along and tag-along calibrated so founders keep operational agility while the lead investor gets the protections they need.

C l i e n t v o i c e

“Ambit's transactional expertise, negotiating skills, and ability to handle cross-border deals make them one of the leading Czech law firms in VC and M&A.”

Vlastimil Venclík

CEO · Oddin.gg

Report · PDF

CEE VC Deals Report 2025

Sourced from our own deal flow — median round sizes, valuations, and term structures across every institutional round we closed in CEE last year. Data you won't find in any public benchmark.

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Template · ZIP · 3 files

Cap-table starter pack

Google Sheet with founder vesting, option pool, SAFE waterfall, and Series-A dilution projections pre-wired.

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V á š p a r t n e r

PORTRAIT · T. DITRYCH

Tomáš Ditrych

Managing Partner · Venture Capital

tomas.ditrych@ambit.law

Tomáš leads Ambit's Venture Capital practice. With 300+ VC transactions closed across the region in the past several years, Tomáš is one of the leading legal authorities on venture capital in Central and Eastern Europe. He holds a dual law degree from the United States (San Francisco) and the Czech Republic (Ph.D.) and lectures at the Charles University in Prague (class "Startups and VC Transactions").

300+

VC deals closed

€380 M+

Capital transacted

15+

Years of experience

Direct line to the partner who closes your round. Most enquiries get a reply within the business day — usually with a calendar link attached. No intake forms, no junior screener.

SAFE, convertible, or priced round — which is right for us?

For a first cheque under €500k from a small group of angels, SAFE or convertible is usually faster and cheaper. Above that — or with a lead investor who wants board rights — a priced seed is cleaner long-term. We'll model the cap table both ways on a 30-minute call before you commit.

How long does a seed round take to close?

Eleven days median from signed term sheet to wire. SAFE-only rounds can close in under a week. Priced seeds with a lead and 2–3 follow-ons typically run 2–4 weeks depending on diligence.

Is your €2,390 fixed fee really the all-in cost?

Yes — for convertible instruments (SAFE, convertible loan, convertible note) up to €1.5M, single jurisdiction, single class of shares. Priced equity rounds, cross-border holdco, secondaries, and employee buyouts are scoped and quoted per engagement before work begins.

Will you take equity instead of a fee?

No. Fixed fees only. Taking equity creates a conflict the moment the round terms get adversarial — and they always do, eventually. We'd rather be your lawyer than your shareholder.

What if the round falls apart mid-process?

You pay for the work actually done at our standard rate, capped at the fixed fee. No success-only billing, no clawback. We'd rather get paid for honest work than push a bad round to closing.

Pre-seed & Seed.