Cap Table

Cap Table

The spreadsheet or software record showing every shareholder, their share class, and their ownership percentage.

What Cap Table means

The capitalization table lists every equity holder in a company: founders, employees on options, angels, funds, SAFE holders, and note holders. It shows share counts, fully-diluted percentages, and often the price paid.

A clean cap table is a fundraising asset. Investors will scan for red flags: too many small SAFE holders, unclear vesting on founders, non-standard preferences, or missing agreements. Tools like Carta and Pulley manage this.

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• Cap Table Management
• Convertible Note
• Dilution
• Discount (SAFE / Note)
• Due Diligence
• Friends and Family Round
• Gross Margin
• KPI (Key Performance Indicator)
• Liquidation Preference
• LTV (Customer Lifetime Value)
• MFN Clause (Most-Favored Nation)
• MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue)
• Option Pool
• Oversubscribed Round
• Post-Money Valuation
• Pre-Money Valuation
• Pre-Seed Round
• Pro-Rata Rights
• Revenue Multiple
• Roll-Up Vehicle (RUV / SPV)
• Runway
• SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity)
• Seed Round
• Series A
• Series B
• Term Sheet
• Valuation Cap
• Vesting
• Go-to-Market
• Grant Funding
• Grants vs Equity
• Grants vs VC
• GraphQL vs REST
• Gross Margin
• Growth Loops
• GTM Motion

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