Mantle vs Qapita Equity Management

Mantle is a web-based cap table management platform from Mantle Equity for startups. It tracks share classes and securities such as SAFEs, preferred stock, warrants, and RSAs, and supports option management. Mantle says its AI can read SAFEs, notes, term sheets, and other documents to help create an audit-ready cap table. Users can model fundraising rounds, dilution, and option pools against their real-time cap table, then download a cap table in Open Cap Table Format (OCX). Built-in digital signatures support issuing grants and agreements. Customers can add counsel and other stakeholders without per-seat pricing, and plans include unlimited stakeholders. Starter is free and includes SAFE signing and templates, vesting schedules, scenario modeling, law firm integration, and cap table exports. Essentials costs $1,200 a year; Growth costs $3,000 a year and adds an annual 409A valuation and VIP customer support. Growth+ has no listed price. Mantle states that it complies with AICPA SOC 2 Type II standards, hosts its platform on Google Cloud in the US Central region, and uses 256-bit TLS encryption for information moving over the internet.

Qapita Equity Management is web-based cap table software for tracking company ownership from early financing through IPO. It supports common and preferred stock, SAFEs, and warrants. Share certificates and SAFEs can be issued through e-signature and approval workflows, with ownership records updating after signing. Its simulator covers fundraises, exits, option pool changes, convertibles, SAFE conversions, and liquidation preferences. Investor workflows and board consents use cap table ownership data. The platform logs share issuances, transfers, buybacks, and cancellations with timestamps and supporting documents; users can download ledgers and historical snapshots. Qapita says its onboarding team rebuilds and validates equity history against source documents before launch. It states that it meets SOC 1 and SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001 standards. The free Spark plan covers up to 25 stakeholders and less than $1M in funding raised. Surge costs $1,600 a year, plus US$40 per stakeholder/year, for up to 40 stakeholders.