CAPLINK CRM vs Ledgy

CAPLINK CRM is an investor relationship and fundraising pipeline tool for startup founders. It tracks investors through ordered fundraising stages and reports on stage counts, inactive conversations, and round momentum. Investor records can hold contact details, notes, meeting outcomes, deadlines, to-dos, and communication history. Outreach can draw on pipeline contacts or saved investor lists, with templates and personalization fields; sent messages are logged against contacts. The CRM also lists AI-personalized mass outreach and real-time messaging with read receipts and profile-linked message history. Organization members share pipeline data and interactions, and appointed advisors can view the pipeline. CAPLINK connects the CRM with investor research, pitch deck sharing, a permissioned data room and Q&A, investor relations, and cap table tools. Data room files can be connected from Google Drive or Dropbox, or uploaded directly. It runs on the web. The Free Founder plan is free; Pro Founder costs €99 a month or €999 a year. Platform users must be business entities, not consumers.

Ledgy manages equity and executive compensation for companies from incorporation through post-IPO, serving finance, legal, and people teams at private and public companies. Its tools cover cap tables, share plans, grants, employee communications, compliance, financial reporting, trading and settlement, and executive compensation. The platform automates country-specific compliance and global mobility reports, custom vesting, and IFRS 2 expensing. More than 70 HRIS integrations support synchronized data and grant workflows; automation also covers bulk document creation and signing, exercising, and offboarding. Employees can view grants, vesting schedules, and award updates, and exercise or trade shares. Ledgy states it is ISO 27001:2022 certified and lists controls including TLS 1.3 encryption, SAML SSO with SCIM provisioning, role-based access, and GDPR compliance. Its GraphQL API uses OAuth 2.0 service accounts and is limited to 20 requests every 5 seconds per company. The free Launch plan covers up to 50 stakeholders. Essentials starts at €3k/year, Scale and Advanced at €5k/year, and Enterprise at €18k/year; Public has custom pricing.