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Non-participating and participating

A non-participating preference takes its money back or shares as if converted, never both. A participating one takes its money back and then shares the rest as well. Solaris’s preferences are non-participating, the usual European position. Article 5.2 · Chapter 9

Explained in Chapter 9, Preference Shares and the Stack, of Venture Deals.

How it comes up, in Chapter 9
Two words set the size of each step. “One times” means the class takes back the money it put in, once. Non-participating means it then stops and takes no share of what is left.
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