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Post-money valuation is a straightforward and at the same time confusing term, because everyone can have a different formula they use to calculate it. In this blog post we discuss the different calculation methods!

This part of the Term Sheet Negotiations series brings us the last missing piece of the puzzle–the lawyer. Everything you've ever wanted to ask an extremely experienced startup lawyer can now be found in this blog.

So far in this series, we have introduced the basics of term sheet negotiations and asked our investors Cedric Kohler and Andreas Goeldi to share their experiences. In this post, we discuss another exciting part of a startup’s life—the exit.

The third blog in the term sheet negotiations series. Andreas Goeldi answers questions about term sheets and the processes around it!

The second blog in the term sheet negotiations series. Cédric Köhler answers questions about term sheets and the processes around it!

The first part in a series of interviews and blogs, describing the clauses you should always pay attention to.

It’s no secret that the current entrepreneurial world is dominated by startup giants from the United States. So, if European startups want to catch up, as well as stop losing talent to US companies, they have to start offering company shares to employees.

In the startup world, the two most widely used methods for raising funds are through equity and convertible notes. In this post, we’ll share with you real-world data from our app and some additional insights about convertible notes.

During any investment, some of the integral parts of negotiations are provisions that protect investors from dilution in subsequent financing rounds.

Wir haben letzte Woche die allererste Generalversammlung bei Ledgy durchgeführt. In diesem Post teilen wir unsere Templates sowie unsere Learnings.

A startup’s equity has a certain value and thus needs to be declared by the shareholders in their tax declaration yearly. Here’s a mini guide of how to communicate the equity’s value to your startup’s investors and employees.

It’s a counterintuitive fact when a company is small but believe it or not: equity is the most precious asset a startup has. If explained and used well, it can play a key role in motivating your employees to stay on the boat for the long run.

If you’ve never understood what’s a pre- and post-money option pool (aka the option pool shuffle), here’s your chance.

Since the introduction of our blockchain notary, every document uploaded to our platform is certified and stamped on the Bitcoin blockchain.

At Ledgy.com we’re building a new way of managing the cap table and equity of private companies in the cloud. What differentiates our approach from others, is that we model the current cap table with transactions, inspired by the blockchain.

Our daily business is cap tables and share registers. One topic we regularly see divide the minds in Switzerland: Is it necessary to number the shares? Let’s try to bring some light into this darkness.

Investment rounds can get tricky to calculate when convertible rounds with cap and discount come into play. So let’s have a look at how that works.