Capboard vs Eqvista

Capboard manages company equity and gives stakeholders visibility into their holdings. Its cap table tracks equity history and supports projections for funding rounds and company sales. Users can model funding and exit scenarios, including dilution, voting rights, and shareholder payouts. Employee equity tools cover options, phantom shares, warrants, SARs, vesting schedules, and automated grant letters. Capboard also supports investor updates, metric reporting, board management, and shareholder meetings. Its virtual data room provides secure document storage and sharing, contract templates, and Capboard e-signature. The service is available on the web and self-hosted. Listed safeguards include Google and Microsoft SSO, two-factor authentication, administrator controls, and GDPR-compliant hosting on AWS servers in the EU. Role-based access can be assigned to founders, investors or advisers, employees, and collaborators, with user access and changes monitored. Capboard is intended for founders, investors, employees, and lawyers working with company equity. A free plan and 14-day trial are listed, with paid plans from €270/yr. Stakeholder counts exclude external collaborators such as lawyers.

Eqvista combines equity management, valuation services, and app-based company valuation for private companies. Its cap table tools track ownership and manage shares, options, SAFEs, and employee equity, alongside vesting schedules, compliance, and funding or liquidity scenario modeling. Governance and compliance features include board resolutions and voting, 83(b) elections, Rule 701, Form 3921, and ASC 718 support. Valuation offerings include 409A and fair market valuations, software and IP, gift and estate tax, ASC 820 portfolio valuations, and QSBS attestation letters. Real-Time Company Valuation provides an app-based estimate of common stock value for private companies; Eqvista says it does not replace a certified 409A valuation. Eligible companies can connect QuickBooks to send financial data into that feature, and the mobile app provides valuation insights on iOS and Android. The free cap table plan covers fewer than 20 stakeholders. Premium Cap Table costs $2 a month, billed per stakeholder; a valuation and cap table bundle is listed from $990 a year. Eqvista says it uses AWS, AWS KMS encryption at rest, and TLS/SSL in transit.