Vesting is simple to agree and tedious to track. A four-year schedule with a one-year cliff is one sentence in a founders' agreement and forty-eight monthly updates in a spreadsheet — multiplied by every person on the cap table. Aportia calculates vesting from the schedule itself, live, on the same cap table it affects, and for now it's free.
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Define a grant once and Aportia works out the vested and unvested amounts for any date. You never update a vesting tab; you open the project and the numbers are current.
Founder shares subject to vesting and employee options from the pool behave differently — one is issued and can be bought back, the other isn't issued until exercise — but both belong on the fully diluted cap table. Aportia keeps them together so the ownership you show investors accounts for both.
Departures are where vesting matters. Record the leaving date and the leaver type, and Aportia applies the grant's rules to the unvested portion. The result is reflected on the cap table and logged in the audit trail, so there's no argument months later about what was agreed.
Agree the leaver rules before you need them
Software can apply the rules; it can't invent them. Put cliff, acceleration and leaver definitions in writing while everyone is still on good terms.
Because vesting lives on the cap table rather than in a side spreadsheet, the round simulator and the exit waterfall work with the same grants. You can see what a departure or an acceleration event would do to everyone's ownership before it happens.
Some founding teams prefer ownership that follows contributions rather than the calendar. Aportia supports that as dynamic equity, which can later be frozen into a normal cap table with standard vesting on top. Optional, not the default.
Yes. Aportia tracks vesting for founders and employees for free for now, with no credit card and no limit on grants or people.
Four years with a one-year cliff, vesting monthly after the cliff. It's a convention, not a rule — the schedule should match what your agreement says.
Yes, single- and double-trigger acceleration can be set per grant.
Yes. Vesting can be applied to founder shares as well as to option grants from the pool.
Set the schedule once and let Aportia keep every grant current. Free for now.
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