Kinect Essentials: Valuations and Cap Tables
Panel Experts
Chris Badger
Now CFO
Jake Gallagher
VESO
Jeff Erickson
Forecastr
Nick Singleton
AIM Ventura Capital
Angela Smith
Origin Ventures
This Kinect Essentials panel is designed to provide valuable insights about the different valuation methods investors use, how to create and maintain a cap table, and best practices for negotiating with investors.
Valuations and cap tables are essential tools for entrepreneurs fundraising from investors. Valuations are used to determine the worth of a startup or business, while cap tables track the ownership and equity distribution among the company’s investors, founders, and employees.
Meet the Experts
Moderator: Jeff Erickson, Forecastr
Panelists:
Online Resources
BoomStartup Archive: Introduction to Cap Tables with Bert McCooey
An important component to any business formation is the creation of a capitalization table. Cap Table identifies the shareholders and adjusts as the company attains outside capital or incentivizes employees. Watch now.
BoomStartup Archive: How Valuations Work with Tanner Anderson
Startups must know how prospective investors place a fiduciary value upon a company, and how valuations affect the investment term sheet. This video goes through the basics of valuations so founders can understand the measurement and approach of valuations. Watch now.
BoomStartup Archive: Interplay Between Cap Table, Valuation, and Financial Planning with Rajesh Gopi
Startups must know how prospective investors place a fiduciary value upon a company, and how those valuations are driven by the company’s financial standings and growth plans. This video walks through the concepts and then goes into how founders can build it out. Watch now.
Capitalization Table Resources for Founders
- Startup Equity Dilution Calculator – Lighter Capital
- Fundraising Benchmarks for Early-Stage Startups – Forecastr
- Equity Compensation Benchmarking Data – Pave
- Founder Studio – Carta
- Startup Resources – Forecastr
- Cap Table Template – Fred Wilson
- Cap tables 101 – capshare
- How to make a cap table – venture hacks
- Captable.io – startup cap table mangagement
- eShares – Cab table management
- Eqvista – Cab table management
- Convertible Notes – Funders Club
- CapTable.io – set up your companies cap table
- Awesome Valuation/Equity Calculator – OwnYourVenture
- TrueEquity – Cab table management
- How VC’s Calculate Valuation – Mark Suster
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