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Our mission

To empower every team globally with equity

Ledgy was founded in 2017 by Yoko Spirig, Ben Brandt and Timo Horstschaefer, who met while studying physics together at ETH Zürich.

Back in 2017, more companies in Europe were setting up equity plans to incentivise team members. Yoko, Ben and Timo saw that despite good intentions, companies were struggling to make the most out of equity. Equity plans were confusing and complex to manage, and people didn’t understand what their ownership stakes really meant.

Yoko, Ben and Timo started Ledgy to solve these problems and make equity work for companies and people.

Meet our leadership team
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Equity has an incredible power to align teams behind a common goal. But for founders and teams, getting equity working can feel like moving mountains. 

Today, Ledgy automates equity processes for thousands of companies around the world, helping teams stay compliant, deliver value, and bring everyone together around a single mission. 

We’re a team of 70 people serving customers globally from offices in Zürich, London and Berlin. To support our growth, we’ve partnered with incredible investors including Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates.

Our values
Our purpose

To create a world where entrepreneurship drives positive change

When equity really works for companies, the whole team can come together around a common goal. By making equity work for companies, we’re going to help foster cultures of entrepreneurship and drive positive change in the world. Interested in helping us on our journey?

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Meet our leadership team

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Yoko Spirig

Co-Founder & CEO
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Ben Brandt

Co-Founder & CPO
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Timo Horstschäfer

Co-Founder & CTO
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Valma Tikkakoski

Head of Marketing

James Seely

Head of CX
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Stefanie Lynch

Head of Product
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Svein Petter Undheim

Head of Financial Reporting
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Tim Oliver Pietsch

CFO
Armon Bättig

Armon Bättig

Enterprise Lead

Our Story

2017
Ledgy is founded by three physicists, Ben, Timo and Yoko, who met while studying together at ETH Zürich.
2018
We release our first equity and cap table management product and raise a €1.2 million seed funding round from investors including b2venture, Creathor Ventures and VI Partners.
2019
Our startup employee participation plan template is launched and reaches #3 on Product Hunt.
2020
In response to COVID-19, we make digital signatures free for all customers to prevent unnecessary physical contact. Our first traineeship for junior web engineers launches.
2021
We announce a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Sequoia Capital. Ledgy expands into the UK with its first London hires.
2022
We raise $22 million in a Series B funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates. We expand into Germany, making our first Berlin hires.
2023
Our first annual summit, Edge, brings founders, operators and investors together in London for a unique equity event.
2024
We begin building share plan management services for public companies. The story continues…

Why our customers love us

“We have over 450 employees today and every one of them gets to own a piece of the company. It was important to us to do this in an efficient way and that we can visualise for people what it means to be an equity owner. Ledgy allows us to do that in an automated way and also avoiding mistakes that you would have if you did that manually.”
Andreas Aepli
CFO
“Thanks to Ledgy, I can spend more time on more complex topics or projects where I can bring real value, instead of spending time on manual, monotonous work.”
Maya Seite Masri
Corporate and M&A Legal manager
“Being able to automatically create documents in bulk has been a game changer for us in terms of time-saving and accuracy. I’m confident that nothing will go wrong.”
Bianca Stewart
Head of Legal
“Ledgy has knocked days – not hours, days – off the process of creating a new share option award. That really adds up when you think about what we've already achieved and how much further we still have to go. Compared to what we had before, it's night and day.”
John Fraser
Finance Director

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