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Getting started

Tenacap takes you from incorporation to a clean, fully-diluted cap table in about fifteen minutes — whether you’re importing from another tool or starting from scratch. Here’s the whole path.

Tenacap is a flat-rate cap-table platform for pre-seed through Series B founders. This guide walks through the first session end to end: creating an account, adding your company, getting your ownership records in, and inviting the people who need to see them. No part of this requires a sales call or a credit card.

Create your account

Head to the sign-up page and register with your email, or continue with Google. Your login belongs to you, not to any one company — a single account can hold or be invited to several companies, which matters if you found more than one or also advise others.

The Tenacap sign-up screen with email and Google options

Add your company

After signing in you arrive at your workspace home. Choose Create a company and enter the essentials: legal name, jurisdiction (V1 is built around the US Delaware C-corp), and formation date. This creates the entity that every share class, stakeholder, and transaction will hang off of.

The new-company form showing name, jurisdiction, and formation date fields

Populate your cap table

There are two ways to get your ownership records in. Most founders coming from another tool import; founders starting fresh enter the first few records by hand.

Option A — Import what you already have

If your cap table lives in Carta, Pulley, or a spreadsheet, import it. Tenacap parses the file, reconciles every total against the source, and shows you a preview — stakeholders, share classes, securities, and any exceptions — before a single record is committed. You confirm, then it writes the whole ledger atomically. The full walk-through, including how to produce the right export from each tool, is in Importing your cap table.

Option B — Start from scratch

Choosing “Start from scratch” opens a short setup wizard that builds a real, founder-issued cap table for you — no spreadsheet required. It walks you through:

  1. Company — legal name, incorporation date, jurisdiction, and entity type (Delaware C-corp by default).
  2. Founders & shares — add each founder and how many shares they hold. The wizard creates a “Common Stock” class (10,000,000 authorized by default, which you can change) and issues the shares on the ledger for you.
  3. Option pool (optional) — reserve a pool for future hires; a 10% pool is offered as a starting point.
  4. SAFEs (optional) — record any outstanding SAFEs you’ve already raised.

A final review shows each founder’s fully-diluted ownership before anything is written. Confirm, and you land on a populated cap table — then add restricted stock, option grants, and everything else from Managing your cap table as you go. The fully-diluted ownership view stays current automatically.

A populated fully-diluted cap table showing founders, an option pool, and SAFEs

Invite your team & advisors

A cap table is most useful when the right people can see it. Invite founders, employees, and investors to the read-only stakeholder portal, where each person sees only their own holdings, vesting, and estimated value. Attorney and fractional-CFO seats are free on every tier, so there’s never a per-seat reason to keep an advisor out.

Where to go next

Once the basics are in, these are the most common next stops: