Foundation
Practice Drills: Building a Basic Startup Cap Table
A hands-on drill course for startup founders, HR and L&D teams running ESOPs, treasury staff and anyone who has been handed a cap table to maintain. Working on one sample Bengaluru startup from its incorporation to its seed round, you will lay out a cap table in Excel or Google Sheets, issue founder shares, apply vesting and a co-founder exit, create and grant an ESOP pool, price a seed round, top up the pool before the round closes, convert an angel note at its valuation cap, reconcile everything against MCA filings, and run a simple exit waterfall. Every drill has a worked answer so you can check your numbers line by line.
Cap TablesFounder EquityESOP PoolSeed Round DilutionConvertible Notes
MODULES
6
DURATION
~2.5 hrs
TRACK
Corporate Finance
What You'll Master
How to lay out a cap table in Excel or Google Sheets that stays correct as new rows and rounds are added
How to issue founder shares, check face value and paid-up capital, and apply vesting and a leaver clause
How to create an ESOP pool, record grants and lapses, and calculate fully diluted ownership
How to price a seed round from a pre-money valuation and see who pays for an ESOP top-up
How to convert an angel iSAFE or CCD at its valuation cap and add it to the post-round table
How to reconcile a cap table with MCA filings and run a simple exit waterfall with a 1x liquidation preference
Access Level
LEARNER
Everything included
Full Text Playbooks
Actionable Exercises
Mobile Reading Mode
Lifetime Updates