Insights
Perspectives from the DealCycl team on private markets, equity, and building trust in fintech.
Who Owns Your Cap Table Data? What Every Founder Should Ask
Your cap table contains your most sensitive corporate data. But who actually owns it — you or your platform? What the Carta data scandal revealed about vendor incentives.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
Exit Waterfall Analysis: What Every Founder Should Model
How exit waterfalls determine who gets paid what at a startup exit — liquidation preferences, participation rights, and why percentage ownership doesn't tell the full story.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
Stock Option Pools: A Founder's Guide to Sizing, Dilution, and 409A
How to size your startup's stock option pool, understand the dilution impact, negotiate pool size at Series A, and why you need a 409A valuation before granting options.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
SAFE Notes and Your Cap Table: What Founders Need to Know
How SAFE notes work on your cap table, how they convert at a priced round, and how to model dilution from multiple SAFEs with different valuation caps and discounts.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
How to Manage a Cap Table at Every Stage
A practical guide to managing your startup's cap table from incorporation through Series B and beyond — what to track, when to update, and what mistakes to avoid.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
Cap Table 101: The Founder's Complete Guide to Capitalization Tables
Everything startup founders need to know about cap tables — what they are, why they matter, how they change as you raise, and how to avoid the mistakes that cost equity at exit.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
Third Time's the Charm
This is the third GRC platform I've built. The first defined the enterprise category. The second we scaled to a PE exit. This time, we're building it for startups — AI-native, in under 4 hours.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
Not Another Cap Table Product
Your cap table and your governance documents are two sides of the same coin. The incumbents sell you one and leave the other in a Google Drive folder. We built both.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder
The DealCycl Master Plan, Phase 1
Why we're building DealCycl, starting with cap table management that puts founders in control.
Chris Goodwin, CEO & Co-Founder