Motivate your startup teams with a slice of equity

Automate your ESOP with Cake's cap table, equity grant templates, raise simulation, and scalable equity platform.

Offer equity in minutes
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Features

Powerful tools to unlock equity

Simulate capital raise and model scenarios

Model scenarios and see how new investment rounds will impact ownership. Use Cake’s modeling and reporting tools, audit-proof valuations, and benchmark calculators to confidently plan for the future.

"Cake's feature set is exactly what we needed as a startup getting off the ground with an equity raise for the first time."
GAVIN BALLARD
‍Founder & CEO

Automated contract management

Offer equity grant to your team, anywhere in the world. Automate offer letters, set up vesting conditions, manage contract signing, all in one place!

"We’re trying to issue options out to 150 people every year.. Trying to get people's signatures and just all of the admin around that — who's signed, who hasn't signed, trying to keep track. With Cake, all that confusion is a thing of the past."
DARIUS COVENEY
COO/CFO of Fluent Commerce

Easy and transparent employee portfolio

Onboard fast, and communicate with your employees the value of their equity. They immediately get access to a team app and see the value of their equity in real time.

"I just found it so easy to just log in, click a couple of buttons, send the email to my employees, they sign it, and then it (stock options) is sorted. It's nice when I onboard someone, log in, send them a link and it's sorted very quickly."
AJAY PRAKASH
CEO of Entry level
17,000+
Companies using Cake
200,000+
Stock option owners around the world
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Countries served

Join the new school equity movement

Old school

Multiple demos before getting a price
Weeks to get started
Complex system
Difficult to get support
Global equity is expensive and slow

New school

Upfront pricing - the way it should be
Minutes to get going - fast time to value
Easy, intuitive platform - says every customer
Our CS team is in your corner - we got you
One click global equity - fair equity for all
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Set up employee
stock options

Cake allows employee equity offers to be easily understood, and aligned to company goals. Startups can create a culture of shared ownership and success that creates meaningful value in team culture, and wealth.

Communicate to your team and shareholders

Easily communicate value with your team to improve engagement and retention. Save time and money on your legal work. Valuations are sorted, wherever you need them. Plus automated vesting, exercising and reporting gives peace of mind.

Automate grant
agreements

Issue and manage employee equity for employees, contractors, and advisors. Automated reporting keeps records up to date, giving you peace of mind. World-class cloud-based infrastructure keeps your data secure.

Attract, retain, and motivate your team with equity

Adding equity into hiring processes takes seconds. Create stock options or share plans, setup automatic vesting, motivate and reward your team for their work. Easily communicate the value with your team to improve culture, engagement and retention.

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Effortless migration, fast onboarding

Cake takes the hassle out of migrating your cap table from another platform. Our intuitive software and our onboarding team ensures a seamless transition, for FREE.
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Reviews

What Cake users are saying

"Easy to use, saves lots of time, great service!"
This is the simplest platform to use, it takes minutes to go from nothing to a fully working portal for employees to see their share certificates, vesting schedules, and the dollar value of the equity they have in our company.
Jared Lewandowski
Director of Product Design, IQVIA
"Easy to use, saves lots of time, great service!"
It takes everything hard and complex and makes it easy and simple. We had an ESOP and a SAFE round and both were managed on Cake.

Great tools and content and if you ever get stuck, then they respond quickly with good support. The cap table tools are getting better and better too which is useful.
Mick Liubinskas
CEO, Climate Salad
"Solid functionality and a super responsive team!"
Cake's feature set is exactly what we needed as a startup getting off the ground with an equity raise and an employee ESOP for the first time. Since then, it's grown alongside us and the feature set has developed.

We've always gotten great support from the team as well! I can't even imagine how we'd do what Cake does... it's a clear time saver.
Gavin Ballard
CEO, Disco Labs
"The best platform for managing equity and stock options for startups."
Templated agreements, easy-to-digest dashboards and simple communication methods make issuing stock, offering options and managing shareholders simple. Also, there is excellent chat-based support from real people!
Sharon Hunneybell
Co-Founder,
The GC Innovation Hub
"The feedback from my startup network is consistent. Cake is easier to use than its competitors!"
The platform is straightforward and intuitive, making ESOP and Cap Table management much easier. Throughout the months that we've been using it, I've also seen so many rapid improvements/new features that have made the platform even better! The Customer Success team provides exceptional support!
Aryan Motevali
Ops, Inventia Life Science
"With Cake, all confusion is a thing of the past."
We’re trying to issue options out to 150 people every year, we had that through spreadsheets and a Word document merged into PDFs. And then trying to get people's signatures and just all of the admin around that — who's signed, who hasn't signed, trying to keep track. With Cake, all that confusion is a thing of the past.
Darius Coveney
COO/CFO, Fluent Commerce
"Thanks for a genuinely great product that helps make what we do easier."
Issuing stock options sounds bloody complex so it’s good to be able to simplify it. Thanks for a genuinely great product that helps make what we do easier. Really appreciative of it.
MIchael Fox
Co-Founder, Fable Food
"It's so much easier to do it on Cake!"
We spent thousands and thousands of dollars on lawyers to keep all this information current in the last system and that was just on top of how much it already costs for just the subscription of the last system. It's so much easier to do it on Cake.
Rachel Obenshain
Co-Founder, Xeni
"Our cap table in Cake is our source of truth."
The cap table that we have in Cake is our source of truth. That's the tool that we use on a day-to-day basis. At Vow, every employee receives an option grant, and Cake becomes a very easy one-stop shop where we can go and because we have the day-to-day processes in place, then we can very easily go and download what the cap table looks like.
Ellen Dinsmoor
COO, Vow
"I just found it very easy.. and very pretty!"
I just found it so easy to just log in, click a couple of buttons, send the email to my employees, they sign it, and then it (stock options) is sorted. Whenever someone asks me a question about a cap table or something, I just log into Cake and look… it's very pretty.
Ajay Prakash
CEO, EntryLevel

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