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The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 398 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per provider per stage: the published price or band, whether it is a standalone report or an entitlement of a cap-table plan, the number of valuations included in a year, the stated turnaround and the rush premium. Across them, the figures nobody publishes: the median and spread of the published price at each funding stage, the share of providers publishing a price at all against the share quoting only, the price per business day of turnaround, and the gap between the bundled and standalone route for the same report. Repriced-since the previous read, which is the news in a market that has moved from four figures to three in two years.", "embed": "

1,499.50 USD

median published figure, 409A Price Index, across 8 sources, read 11 November 2026

Source: 409acost.com 409A Price Index
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