Great news for all statutory register enthusiasts out there - we've made yours even better on Capdesk! That's right, we just turned your old, lengthy excel export into a majestic PDF document with a sharper look. We also expanded its content to include several recommended documents as well - namely, your register of issuances (allotments), transfers, and reorganisations (adjustments). 

Hooray!

Let's take a look.

At Capdesk, we're serious about cap tables. That's why we've updated our exports to give you even more comprehensive reports on the data you keep on the platform. Get better insight than ever into your shares, and stay on top of who owns what with the new stakeholder category tags.

If you've ever had to give share certificates to shareholders after issuing out shares or completing a funding round, you know what serious hassle means. Manually filling out information on share certificate templates, printing them out, signing them by hand, and then scanning (or even mailing!) them to be sent to the share holder. Not to mention the filing process of paper certificates that keep piling up or getting misplaced... Well, great news is we've made this all ancient history! 

If you are  Capdesk admin and, for whatever reason, wish to export the data you've been storing on the platform to save them on a personal device, it's now possible to do so with just a few clicks. Here's how:

At Capdesk, we continually work to accommodate your own particular needs. This is why we've updated Capdesk's access settings to make them more customisable, giving you full control over what kind of access each user in your company has to the platform. Let's take a closer look.

Whether you’ve had an EMI scheme for a while, or just started setting one up, making EMI notifications for HMRC is always one of those tasks that take up more time than you’d like. This process requires you to either manually enter all of the grant recipient’s and issued shares’ details on the HMRC website, or to upload a spreadsheet of your own where you’ve been keeping track of this information.

A shareholder register is a common requirement for private companies in numerous countries, including but not limited to the UK, the US, and Denmark. Countries such as Sweden, Australia, and Finland keep an equivalent share register. The register consisting of a list of the company's shareholders, which was historically kept in a loose-leaf or bound book. Even today though, newly formed companies continue to use and manually update a hard-copy, despite the electronic version often being easier to maintain and just as acceptable from a legal perspective.

Allotting new shares is a common way for a company to increase its share capital, providing funds for expansions or advancements of the business.

Capdesk now supports investments via investment vehicles, such as certain forms of fund, trust or nominee setups.

Once you’ve found your investors, you think all the hard work is done and the money will be in the bank within hours. It ought to be like that, but reality is, however, that the fundraising process is often surprisingly lengthy and costly. The primary reason for this is that there is no standardised process for completing a funding round. Most funding rounds are done manually - with each lawyer or fundraising platform doing it differently. On Capdesk you won’t get any help finding the right investors for your round. But we strive to streamline all the boring paperwork, which really shouldn’t be costly.