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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.

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.

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

Building your first cap table by hand is a short, ordered path:

  1. Add a share class (typically “Common Stock”) with its authorized share count.
  2. Add your stakeholders — the founders, employees, and entities on the cap table.
  3. Issue shares to each founder, and record any restricted stock with its vesting schedule.
  4. Record outstanding SAFEs or notes and any option grants as you go.

Each step is covered in depth in Managing your cap table. As you add records, the fully-diluted ownership view stays current automatically.

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: