Founders frequently underestimate the equity dilution impacts of funding rounds and employee stock option plans (ESOPs). Consider two stark examples: Eric Yuan's ownership in Zoom dwindled to 22% by ...

Three investors have asked about your cap table. You nodded confidently. Then you opened a spreadsheet later and realized you weren’t actually sure what they were asking for or why it mattered so much ...

Are you gearing up to secure funding for your startup or maybe you’ve raised a little bit already? If so, ensuring your cap table and data room are pristine could be the difference between a smooth, ...

The CEO of a Norwegian hardware startup shared a pitch deck with me that had an unusual slide: It included the company’s capitalization table — the breakdown of who owns what part of the company.

In the world of venture capital (VC, capitalization (cap) tables are essential. Simply, they show the level of funding raised and ownership offered by round of fundraising along with the instrument ...

In startup fundraising, ownership structure can be as decisive as revenue growth or market size. Investors often review a company’s capitalization table, a record of who owns what, before committing ...

But how exactly does a company 2x its price tag without going through a funding round? For Ramp, the answer was what’s known as a secondary share sale: a process by which investors buy a stake in a ...