Build a clear, investor-ready cap table in 10 minutes
Beginner
10 min
English
Generate a post-money cap table that accurately reflects your founders, new investment, and employee option pool.
Steps
- Open ChatGPT or Claude in your browser.
- Copy the prompt template below into the chat.
- Replace the {variables} in curly braces with your actual company, founder, and investment details.
- Press Enter to generate the cap table.
- Review the math to ensure the post-money ownership percentages add up to 100%.
- Copy the generated Markdown table and paste it into a spreadsheet (like Google Sheets) or a Notion document to save and share with investors.
Prompts to Use
You are a startup financial expert and corporate lawyer. Create a post-money cap table for {company_name}. The founders and their current equity split are: {founders_and_equity}. The company is raising {investment_amount} at a pre-money valuation of {pre_money_valuation}. Please also include an employee option pool of {employee_pool_percentage} that will be created post-money. Output the cap table as a Markdown table with the following columns: Shareholder, Shares, Ownership Percentage, and Value. Show your calculations briefly below the table so I can verify the math.
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