VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table).

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. In the process of investing, we became rather obsessed with helping founders build more diverse and impactful cap tables. Enter Box.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Carta , Captable.io , Certent , EquityEffect , and ShareWorks by Morgan Stanley track private company cap tables. . Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. We went through hundreds of thousands of resumes to hire those 1,900 people and we do so much to bring them in and to have to say goodbye to them, I'd say that was the hardest part. And the good thing is, was it included people that were already in our cap table.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It'd be great if we could somehow hire people all over the world, that would be great. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And we had just had massive challenges trying to move money to the different contractors we were hiring in different places. And so you want a lot of variety in the people that you hire.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113