Kim Hansen
Co-Founder & CEO, Cake Equity
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$100M for infinite recycling, Telstra exits VC & Canva's ESOP clausesAbout Cake Equity
Cake Equity is a platform designed to simplify and streamline equity management for startups, founders, and investors. Its main goal is to help businesses manage their cap tables, employee equity plans, and stakeholder relationships in an efficient and transparent manner. Cake Equity is particularly popular among startups and growing companies because it removes much of the administrative burden associated with equity management.
- Sector
- Equity management software
- Business model
- B2B SaaS (cap table and equity management)
- Founded
- 2018
- Founders
- Kim Hansen, Jason Atkins
- Headquarters
- Venice, California, US
- Offices
- Venice (California), Palm Beach (Queensland), Lisbon
- Markets
- United States, Australia
- Latest round
- A$3M Seed, led by LAUNCH (Mar 2022)
- Customers
- Who Gives A Crap
Sources: thesaasnews.com, cakeequity.com, businessnewsaustralia.com, cakeequity.com, cakeequity.com
The people on Day One.
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Milestones.
- Introduced cap table management featurescakeequity.com
- Joined the Startmate acceleratorcakeequity.com
- Raised funding including investor Jason Calacaniscakeequity.com
- Named #1 OpenView PLG platformcakeequity.com
Backers heard on Day One.
Also backed by LAUNCH (Jason Calacanis), TheSyndicate.com.
Sources: thesaasnews.com
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