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All the LegalCap TableFundraisingGovernance Tools You’ll Need
Everything you need to start, incorporate and grow your startup
Incorporation
Form a company optimized for growth
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).
Not sure if a Delaware C-Corporation is right for your startup?
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Ownership
Issue stock & manage company ownership
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.
Business Banking
Open a business bank account
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.
Platform
Stay up-to-date with your company’s operations
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.
Agreements
Establish relationships and protect intellectual property
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.
Lawyers
Find the right startup counsel
Finding a trusted law partner to handle your company's 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.
Fundraising
Raise money from pre-seed investors
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.
Option Plan
Issue Stock Options and stay compliant
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.
Modeling
Run investment and exit scenarios
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.
Discounts
Save money on early infrastructure
Special Offer: 6.5% of funds successfully raised with Wefunder
Raise a Regulation CF round with lower fees.
Priority application for those that apply through Gust Launch
Flatirons provides product development and design resources to early-stage companies.
Maximize your R&D Tax Credit
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.
$5,000 in AWS Activate credits
Depending on Activate eligibility, 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.
75% off marketing software
First 12 months. 50% off in the second year, 25% off in year 3
HubSpot helps startups amplify their marketing efforts with automation, email, and content tools designed to grow traffic and convert visitors.
50% off team plan
First 12 months.
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.
$150 discount on corporate tax filing
Cleer Tax & Bookkeeping takes the hassle out of preparing your corporate taxes.
$50,000 in Segment credits
Segment makes analytics easy for startups. Sign up through Gust Launch for $50,000 in credits, plus educational classes, support, and more.
Testimonials
"Gust Launch is a sleek product for any entrepreneurs looking to manage their governance, risk, and compliance. I am very happy with their overall engagement with the entrepreneurs."
- Arun Siva
"As a founder myself, I created my business with Gust. I advise all my companies to use Gust to create their entity."
- Ari Block
"We really felt that the Gust team was by our side as we worked through the various documents for our first C-corp. I highly recommend their platform and their people."
- Jules Walters
"Gust Launch has felt like our own virtual startup advisor...the immense amount of digestible and actionable knowledge that Gust had to offer."
- Sam Rystrom
"I’d recommend Gust over and over. The product is amazing, the team is even better."
- Chance Mayfield
"I absolutely love using Gust. If you’re a founder or an entrepreneur, Gust is your single most valuable resource to getting started."
- Kyle Jekielek