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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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Timo Horstschäfer

Co-Founder & CTO
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Ben Brandt

Co-Founder & CPO
Armon Bättig

Armon Bättig

Co-Founder & Head of Sales
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Valma Wenzl

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

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 expand our product to cater to the needs of publicly listed companies. We're committed to supporting our customers from incorporation to IPO and beyond. The story continues...

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Why our customers love us

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Climeworks expands and automates their equity with Ledgy
"We were tasked with merging the plans from two different companies and different histories together on Ledgy, migrating 3000 stakeholders and ensuring accuracy and continuity for both companies. This migration process was super smooth and it was done in 45 days."
Rafael Rosell Taboada
Dott
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“Ledgy’s fully automated trading flow provides sellers with a modern, intuitive, and efficient experience. Its reliability streamlines our processes as brokers, while its flexibility allows us to adapt to each client’s unique needs, ensuring a smooth and stress-free trading experience. It’s revolutionary to see this level of automation delivering real value to users and we're honoured to play a part in this journey.”
Tom Giles
Deputy Head of Winterflood Corporate & Trustee Markets
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"We gave our complete history and cap table to Ledgy and they took it and shaped it into the platform within a couple of days. The implementation was done in under 3 weeks from the first call to being ready to launch."
Jason Mann
COO at Gearset
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"We basically had 4 different things we were looking at at the same time to manage our equity. Ledgy closed that all together in one space.”
Abbie Johnson
People Experience Manager at Yulife
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“Ledgy feels like an upgrade of the entire experience for the teams responsible for managing equity and hopefully for our employees as well.”
Bianca Stewart
Head of Legal at Motorway
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“As a private or public company, you need to limit the risks related to manual errors. Having a tool like Ledgy in place does exactly that. Ledgy helps to ensure that reporting deadlines are met, with very limited risk.”
Volker Adam
Senior Director of Finance at EGYM
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