Grow your team with equity ownership.

Offers, board consents, 409As and vesting run on one steady rhythm, with records your counsel and investors can check any day. Your team sees who owns what. Every employee sees what they own.

Offer · Marcus Lee

Board consent approved

Grant · 20,000 options

Within range for the role

✓

Employee portal

Grant is live

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Equity on a rhythm

Hiring every month means granting every month

Somewhere between employee 20 and 100, equity stops being a founder side project. It needs a process that holds up.

Grants that keep pace with hiring

Offer letter, board consent, CEO sign-off and e-signature run in order, and the contract editor keeps your own terms on every grant. Done in minutes.

Compliance that keeps up as the team grows

Board approvals, 409As and filing deadlines get harder to track with every hire. Built-in compliance and insights that surface what matters before you have to ask keep each one on schedule.

A team that picks up

Real equity specialists answer when you ask, from your next grant to your next round.

Hand equity off without losing the thread

Bring in your ops lead, finance team and counsel with the right permission level for each. Every action is logged with who did it and when, so nothing depends on one person's memory.

User permission levels for each role

Activity log on every grant, exercise and transfer

Automated vesting notifications

Activity log
Last 7 days
Grant signed · L. Ruiz
Kate W. (Ops)
Board consent approved
3 of 3 directors
Options exercised · 4,000
M. Brooks
Access granted · counsel
Maya C. (CEO)
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Equity your team actually understands

Every employee gets a login that shows what they hold, how it vests and what it could be worth. Built-in education explains options in plain English, so fewer questions land on you.

Employee portal with holdings and vesting

Built-in equity education

Option exercises handled in the app

Your equity · Lena Ruiz
Employee view
Options
15,000
Vested
3,750
Next vest
Oct 1

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Model the pool before the round does

Investors will ask for a pool top-up. See how big it needs to be for your hiring plan, and what it does to everyone's ownership, before the term sheet arrives.

Series A scenarios side by side

Option pool expansion modeling

Warrants tracked on the same cap table

Option pool
Top-up needed
Granted and reserved
86%
18-month hiring plan needs
+4.5% pool
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Plans

Choose the plan that fits where you are.

Founder-friendly pricing that keeps pace with your runway as you build.
Recommended

Free

You're getting your cap table out of the spreadsheet and your SAFEs on record.

Up to 5 stakeholders
Start free

Build

You're raising your first round and granting equity to your first hires.

25 stakeholders included
Start with Build
Recommended

Pro

Finance needs audit-ready reporting and controls behind the numbers.

100 stakeholders included
Book a demo
Switching

Moving platforms? We do the move.

Our team rebuilds your cap table, grants, vesting schedules and signed documents for free, usually within a few days. Then we check every number with you before you go live, and your team logs in to find everything already there.

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Fast, accurate and free migration
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Reconciliation call before go-live
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Power-Up onboarding session for your admins
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Stakeholders invited with nothing to re-sign
Frequently asked questions

Questions growing teams ask

How do the 409As on Team work?

Team includes two 409A credits a year, delivered by our integrated valuators. You claim them in the app, and the draft is ready 3 business days after your information is submitted. Because your cap table is already in Cake, there's less to gather.

Can our ops or finance lead run equity instead of the founder?

Yes. Invite them with the permission level that fits their role, and route grants to the CEO for sign-off when needed. Every action is logged with who did it and when.

How does Cake help employees understand their equity?

Each employee gets their own portal showing holdings, ownership, vesting and estimated value, plus built-in lessons on how options work. They also get notified as their equity vests.

We're mid-round. Is now a bad time to switch?

Often it's the best time, because diligence goes faster on a clean, reconciled cap table. Our team handles the migration for free, usually within a few days, and you can export your full cap table any time.

Do you support option exercises and warrants?

Yes, on Team. Employees can exercise ISOs and NSOs in the app, and you can issue, track, exercise and lapse warrants on the same cap table.

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