📊 Cap Table & Dilution

Model startup equity dilution across funding rounds. Calculates Y Combinator post-money SAFEs, valuation caps, employee option pool (ESOP) expansion, and founder equity value without paying thousands per year for complex equity platforms.

Initial Founder Shares

SAFE Investment ($)

Post-Money SAFE Cap ($)

Series A Raise ($)

Series A Pre-Money Val ($)

Unallocated ESOP Pool (%)

Post-Series A Ownership Breakdown Post-Money Val: $20,000,000

Founders

58.0%

$11,600,000

Seed SAFE Notes

12.0%

$2,400,000

Series A Investors

20.0%

$4,000,000

ESOP Option Pool

10.0%

$2,000,000

💡 Y Combinator Post-Money SAFE Math: With a post-money SAFE, investor ownership is locked immediately at investment ($750k / $6.0M = 12.5%). When Series A arrives, new investor dilution is shared proportionally between founders and existing SAFE holders.