Incorporate your company digitally
Once you have chosen a company name you can incorporate on our platform, which is fully integrated with Companies House.
Share schemes & equity management for startups, scaleups and established UK companies.
With two-way Companies House integration, the platform is fast, accurate and powerful.
Manage your portfolio with ease and evaluate potential investments.
The platform is fully synced with Companies House, to provide you with accurate, real-time insight.
Add your investments for complete visibility of your shareholdings. View cap tables and detailed share movements.
Organise investments by fund, geography or sector, and view your portfolio as a whole or by individual company.
Explore future value scenarios based on various growth trajectories, to figure out potential payouts.
Remove friction and save time. Action shareholder resolutions via DocuSign, access data rooms, and get updates from founders.
Set up and manage new SPVs without leaving the platform, then invite co-investors to fund and participate.
Manage your cap table, issue shares and file documents at Companies House, all in one place.
Take care of everything and then some, without breaking the bank, with a choice of plans to suit you.
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Once you have chosen a company name you can incorporate on our platform, which is fully integrated with Companies House.
Shares are real, legal and conditional from day one, so all co-founders will know what is expected of them.
The UK is globally recognised as the most flexible jurisdiction for (conditional) shareholders. You are protected from the get go.
Use the Slicing Pie framework to allocate equity proportionately via Vestd, in line with what people will bring to the table.
Incorporating as a limited company separates the individual from the business and provides limited liability protection. This means any debts owed are owed by the company and not the individual. It also provides a means for attracting investment as money or time can be exchanged for shares.
The UK is home to a number of extremely tax-advantaged investment schemes including SEIS and EIS, which makes investing in private companies limited by shares particularly attractive. The UK tax regime also means that operating a limited company can be a more tax-efficient way to draw an income than as a sole trader or partnership.
At the time of incorporation, the directors must determine the nominal value of each share, which the shareholder must pay the company.
The initial capital in the company is simply the number of shares multiplied by the nominal value of each share. A high nominal value means founders must put a large amount of capital into the company.
As time progresses and more shares are issued, they’ll have the same nominal value but may be issued at a premium to that, reflecting an increase in the overall value of the company.
There are 2 key factors that come into play when deciding when to start your business. Firstly, is it the right time for you, as an individual, and secondly, is it the right time for your product or service to be unleashed onto the market?
If you’ve thought through all the above, there’s no time like the present to get started.
Shares are diluted when a company issues new shares, reducing the ownership percentage of existing ones, or ‘diluting’ them. However, this needn’t be a bad thing. New shares are typically issued in return for investment or to give team members ‘skin in the game’.
Both are likely to result in the value of the company increasing and surely owning a smaller percentage of a bigger pie has to be better than owning all of something far lesser.