LTSE Equity

LTSE Equity was built by founders, for founders. We realized that there needed to be a better way to manage start-up equity in-house and always wanted to be on the side of the next generation of leaders. As a part of building LTSE Equity, we have seen again and again that if you want to build a purpose-driven company that’s got a meaningful, long-term mission, you have to get your governance right as soon as possible. I am excited that we are now offering every one of our customers the opportunity to get advice from our team of experts on on how best to build their team, treat their customers and community with respect and how governance can serve your strategy at every stage.

When I first heard about the Long Term Stock Exchange, I was immediately filled with questions. What does a world look like when every public company is long term minded? How does that impact our every day lives? And most importantly, how could I get involved as a founder?". When I asked the team this, there was a simple step that i could take that ensure I was on the path to building a company for the long term. That step was singing up for LTSE Equity. 2+ years later I am not just a happy customer of LTSE Equity, I am an evangelist for it. The cap table management platform itself is beyond powerful, including every feature I need to do my job like equity tracking, fundraise help, and exit scenario modeling. In addition, LTSE is one of the founding members of the Open Cap Table Coalition, and the first to support full export in the portable open cap table format. This trust is one of the reasons I probably will NEVER leave LTSE Equity. I encourage you to try out LTSE for yourself so you can get the short term functionality that you need as a founder, and so you can be aligned in a long term oriented ecosystem as you grow. Enjoy!

Hi Product Hunt! 👋 Maker of LTSE Equity here. When @ericries, @marceire and I first started working on the Long-Term Stock Exchange, we wanted to solve typical problems founders face at different stages of their company journey. Cap table management was a clear place to start. As repeat founders we lacked the tools to feel fully in control of our cap table and to use it as a strategic tool for company building, starting with fundraising and equity-based rewards. We set out to make cap table management simpler, put founders in control of their startup data, and above all improve how startups are built. Our MVP was launched under Captable.io in 2015. It has been a part of the LTSE’s ecosystem approach ever since and has tracked over 40,000 startup cap tables to date. Through a parallel process of building a national securities exchange and reimaging the public market incentive system, we’ve had an opportunity to advise startups and publicly-listed companies on best ways to align how they run their company with their mission and benefits for all their stakeholders (what lawyers like to call corporate governance). Today, we're announcing new services that let us share our learnings with all our customers. 🚀 For startups that have raised a priced round (Series A+ funded), we now offer integrated consulting on core company-building activities: from fundraising strategy and equity-based compensation planning to helping founders set up mission-protective by-laws and frameworks for reporting. (For earlier stage startups, we’re rolling out a series of resources, including do-it-yourself guidelines, best practices and simple tools - and you can still get your cap table set up for free on our Basic plan.) Our advice spans the following stakeholder categories: ✅ Rewards, People & Culture ✅ Customers, Community & Environment ✅ Governance, Transparency & Reporting To provide this advice, we depend on getting your cap table up to date. Your cap table is not just a ledger of equity ownership but also records the most important corporate governance additions over your startup’s lifespan. ⚡You can record your cap table on your own or with our assistance. LTSE Equity is a complete cap table management platform to help startups meet their fundraising, equity compensation and financial management needs, including: ✅ Cap table management. ✅ On-platform security issuance for investors. ✅ On-platform issuing and exercising stock options for employees. ✅ Stakeholder and financial reporting. ✅ 409A valuation and tax-related reporting. ✅ Scenario modeling for convertible instrument conversion, priced round fundraising and exits. We believe in fair, transparent pricing and we also offer a simpler, free plan for earlier stage startups. We are also a founding member of Open Cap Table Coalition. and we are the first software platform to support full data export in the Open Cap Table format. We believe that founders should own and control their company data. If you’re one of over 60,000 founders who have used LTSE products to date, we’d like to thank you for your support. 🙏 if you're new, feel free to explore our fully-featured interactive public demo and sign up for free to get started. I look forward to getting your feedback and answering your questions.