Venture-Backed Tech Founders
Build the company. Plan beyond the cap table.
A founder’s personal decisions and a company’s financing decisions are connected. They rarely move on the same timetable.
The owner’s perspective
Equity, mobility and the decisions before liquidity.
Financing rounds, equity awards, secondary sales and an eventual exit create different questions. A personal move also has to fit board obligations, operating responsibilities and the family’s actual life. The useful starting point is a shared chronology of the founder and the business.
What is being realized?
Distinguish share proceeds, options, compensation, rollover equity and deferred payments before relying on a projected outcome.
What does a move change?
Review personal residence separately from the company’s operations, investor requirements and continuing obligations.
What should happen before terms are fixed?
Align transaction counsel and tax advisers while structure and timing remain open to discussion.
