Gust Equity Management Reviews

Gust's cap table management, incorporation process, and referral network are all great and work as advertised but are not necessarily exclusive to Gust. There are several digital solutions out there that offer similar features and sometimes even cheaper annual fees than Gust. The difference between these solutions and Gust, however, is that Gust feels like your own personal startup mentor, or guide, no matter what brought you to Gust or why you're using it. The user experience is clean and easy to use, and around every corner is a helpful article, video, or tooltip that provides insight and guidance to whatever you're trying to do. Never in my life did I think I would find a solution that makes understanding SAFEs and convertible notes easy to understand, but in Gust, I have. Gust has helped me understand incorporation, franchise taxes, even splitting equity among contractors and co-founders. Gust feels less like an equity management and incorporation solution and more like a personalized mentor, not to mention the support is on-part with the best services I've used in my time as a founder. You won't regret using Gust. Sure, it may seem like a decent fee to pay if you're strapped for cash or starting a new business, but the peace of mind and headaches it saves later are well worth it.

Honestly nothing. I truly wish that I had something more useful or informative to write here, but every step of the Gust experience has been better than my expectations. I've received support on multiple occasions, and it's been great each time.

We've used Gust to incorporate, manage our cap table (issue SAFEs), prepare for corporate tax season (including Deleware franchise taxes), and learn numerous things that are important to running our startup (eg: equity distribution).

I like that Gust handles a lot of tedious and complex admin work around things like incorporation, cap table formation, and corporate actions.

As far as I can remember, they may not notify you of certain things you need to take care of outside of Delaware such as foreign state entity annual report filing deadlines

We let them handle setting up our company from a legal prospective and did not have to waste a ton of time doing it directly through the state/government.

This was a great tool for a small but growing company to manage their equity program. To eliminate costly legal costs around equity management we implemented Gust. This was an easy and intuitive tool to manage the dispersal of equity internally instead of paying hefty hourly rate for a law firm to draft the documents. There wasn't too much work to be done one the r=front end to get up and running and it was very easy to train on and use.

I do wish the system has a transactional component. That would make the process even smoother if any monetary exchanges for equity could be managed in the same system.

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This was a great tool for a small but growing company to manage their equity program. To eliminate costly legal costs around equity management we implemented Gust. This was an easy and intuitive tool to manage the dispersal of equity internally instead of paying hefty hourly rate for a law firm to draft the documents. There wasn't too much work to be done one the r=front end to get up and running and it was very easy to train on and use.

I do wish the system has a transactional component. That would make the process even smoother if any monetary exchanges for equity could be managed in the same system.

High cost of equity management through a legal firm this allowed us to process internally with minimal legal support. We have been able to expand our program and include all employees in the equity program.