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Probably because it's cheaper than defending yourself against a never ending stream of lawsuits (baseless or not) that would inevitably arise from founders and teams all leaving to one company en masse.

Dont think a suit to stop people "playing their trade" is going to work esp with the current "No Poach" lawsuit going around.

Sounds like the VC's are finding that laissez faire industrial relations a bitch when in some rare ocasions it favours the employee :-)

The founders think the company is valuable, they're usually on the board and have both a fiduciary and, hopefully, personal sense of duty to their company.

Because the investor really did take some risk and probably has a board position of sorts. Keep all parties wheels greased and things happen faster.