All the LegalCap TableFundraisingGovernance Tools You’ll Need
Everything you need to start, incorporate and grow your company
Form a company
optimized for growth
Incorporate a Startup
Easily file online for a new Delaware C-Corporation and EIN today and you’ll be up and running in as few as three days.
Post-Incorporation Setup
Set modern startup bylaws, appoint board members, and limit founder liability with a quick company formation process, developed by experts and entrepreneurs.
Foreign Qualification
Register your new Delaware C-Corporation through the platform to do business in your home state (additional fees apply).
Issue stock & manage
company ownership
Stock Issuance
Issue stock to your team electronically, with customizable vesting schedules and IRS form 83(b) elections built-in.
Cap Table
Keep track of who owns what at a glance using built-in, robust cap table software that automatically tracks your equity grants.
Board Actions
Approve stock grants with built-in board actions. Board approvals and modifications are made simple with easy online signatures instead of phone calls and print-scan-print-scan cycles.
Open a business
bank account
No Maintenance Fees or Minimums
Protect your personal liability by opening a bank account specifically for your company. We’ve partnered with Brex, a leading financial services platform for startups, to make it easy to open an account online with no maintenance fees.
Apply for an Account Online in 10 Minutes
Get an account number, routing number, and virtual cards instantly upon approval—no branch visit required. With fully digital banking features and a mobile app, you’ll have access to hassle-free banking anytime, anywhere.
Rewards On All Card Spend
No fees on anything, just points on everything—like 8x on rideshare or 1.5x on ads.
Brex Cash offers FDIC insurance up to $250,000 through Brex Cash program banks.
Stay up-to-date with your
company’s operations
Company Dashboard
Stay on top of every process and keep things moving with the status of all your workflows and relationships collected in one place.
Email Reminders
Take action from your inbox with notifications for required actions, deadlines, and important dates.
Auditable History
Automatically organize every contract executed through Launch in its proper context to tell the story of your company securely and reliably.
Establish relationships and protect intellectual property
Contractor and Advisor Agreements
Quickly create and execute agreements that define relationships, protect confidential information, and optionally grant equity.
IP Assignment
Make sure your company has the rights to all of its intellectual property with a Founder IP Agreement for each member of the founding team, including the CEO.
Non-Disclosure Agreements
Defend your company’s confidential information with one-way and two-way NDAs that both parties can execute online.
Find the right
startup counsel
Vetted Startup Attorneys
Finding a trusted law partner to handle your companies most sensitive needs can be daunting. We've partnered with the best startup law firms across the country to help you find the right match for your business.
Waived General Retainers
Startup lawyers typically charge $2,500 before they work for a new client, as part of Gust Launch, they know you are serious and will only setup a work specific retainer once you've established what type of legal needs they can help you with.
Save on Legal Work
Get an hour of discounted legal work each month. Our legal partners have agreed to deduct one hour every month from your total work together, saving you hundreds.
Raise money from
pre-seed investors
SAFE Rounds
Create and execute a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) with built-in best practices and compliance checks, board approvals, and easy online signatures.
Convertible Notes
Easily set terms and issue Convertible Notes electronically with rounds automatically recorded in your cap table.
Unified Debt Fundraising
Gust Launch SAFEs and Convertible Notes are designed to seamlessly roll up into your next round to ease due diligence and make dilution effects clear from the beginning.
Issue Stock Options and
stay compliant
Equity Incentive Plan Creation
Seamlessly adopt a board approved Equity Incentive Plan (EIP) with built-in compliance checks. We’ll walk you through the process of establishing terms and allocating shares.
Option Grant
Track, manage, and issue employee stock options all in one place. Grant options and set vesting schedules in minutes with easy online signatures and board approvals.
Audit Support
With records and e-signatures all in one place along with thorough 409A reports, audits are always stress-free.
Run investment
and exit scenarios
Round Modeling
See the impact a future financing round may have on shareholder ownership with comprehensive round modeling built on your cap table data.
Waterfall Analysis
Evaluate the potential impact different exit scenarios will have on shareholder payout and clearly understand what might happen at a range of exit prices.
Save money on early infrastructure
AWS provides low-cost, easy-to-use IT infrastructure, like computing power and database storage, for any size business. We'll help you get the right credits at the right time to maximize infrastructure runway.
HubSpot helps startups amplify their marketing efforts with automation, email, and content tools designed to grow traffic and convert visitors. In addition to their free CRM, HubSpot offers Gust Launch customers marketing software for 90% off in their first year.
Webflow provides a no-code tool to build professional and engaging websites in a visual canvas format. Gust Launch has teamed up with Webflow to offer a discount on their Team plans.
Cleer Tax & Bookkeeping takes the hassle out of preparing your corporate taxes, so you can focus on growing your business. Through your Gust Launch subscriptions, you get $250 off Cleer’s flat-rate tax-only packages designed for Delaware C-Corporations. DE Franchise report filing is also available.
Segment makes analytics easy for startups. Instrument your web & mobile app with a beautiful analytics API, and integrate 250+ tools (like Google Analytics, Amplitude, Customer.io, Redshift, etc.) with the flip of a switch. Sign up through Gust Launch for $50,000 in credits, plus educational classes, support, and more.
Typeform provides a friendly and intuitive form and survey solution. It is a great no-code tool for early stage startups doing a lot of customer discovery work. Gust Launch has teamed up with Typeform to offer discounts on their Professional and Premium plans.
WeWork offers workspaces for startup teams of all sizes, coffee and community included. Sign up through Gust Launch for 20% off your new WeWork contract for up to 6 months.
Comes with free white-glove onboarding where they work with you / for you to build a world-class financial model with your company
Unlimited phone/video support for the first 30 days of your subscription
Raise a regulation CF round with lower fees and lower minimums.
Includes payment processing. No other fees.
Get coached by experts with years of experience in outbound sales, product development, paid media, fundraising, and more
Personalized to You. This isn’t a one-size-fits-all program. Every startup is different, and our program is tailored to your needs, skills, and goals
Flatirons provides product development and design resources to early-stage companies.
They help support a new wave of founders, particularly women and people of color who have traditionally been underrepresented in venture capital.
Your company may be eligible to receive up to $250,000 in payroll tax credits per year through a government program that rewards investment in innovation. Evaluate your eligibility a few weeks beforehand so you have time to prepare the paperwork.
I am very happy with their overall engagement with the entrepreneurs. The webinars from various service providers cut down the time an entrepreneur would spend to get the services.
I originally began using Gust for the same reasons most people do: cap table management and incorporation. While managing both of those things with Gust Launch is a breeze, what I wasn’t expecting to find was the immense amount of digestible and actionable knowledge that Gust had to offer on nearly every startup-related obstacle that I would run into.
The team at Gust has also been unbelievably helpful and generous with their time. Every single seminar they put on is easily digestible, information-packed, and has made me a better, more educated founder. They've even been generous with their time to help answer some complex questions we had about getting our cap table organized. Gust has been like an advisor to us, only better, because they don't ask to be on our cap table :)
It's simple: Gust was built for growth startups who will seek investor funding and need equity agreements, NDA's, IP control, vesting, etc. If that's you, it will cost you many thousands of dollars to work with lawyers, a lot of heart attacks and confusion, or one significantly cheaper (10X) and an incredibly simple system to get all that done and more. Use Gust to avoid the fuss!
