From founder-funded to venture-backed — one continuous capital record.
Every company starts with the founder's own money. Caplio turns that first dollar into a living capital graph — linking contributions, evidence, ownership and rounds — so when investors look, the story is already proven.
Your own money goes in first
Rivet Labs starts with $5,000 of founder capital — savings and personally-paid invoices logged as structured contributions, not scattered transfers.
- $5,000
- Founder capital in
- $0
- Outside capital
- 7
- Contributions logged
- Founder capital$5,000
- Company capital$5,000
- Round—
- Founder ownership100%
Illustrative sample company. Your own graph builds from real contributions, receipts and rounds.
Founders fund the beginning. Almost none can prove it.
The earliest capital in a company is the founder's — savings, personally-paid invoices, quiet sacrifices. Yet when diligence starts, that history lives in bank statements, memory and spreadsheets. Investors discount what they can't verify, and founders lose credit for the risk they actually took.
Directional industry figures — shown to illustrate the problem Caplio solves.
Six steps from founding to rounds.
This is the path every venture-backed company walks. Caplio captures each step as it happens, so the record compounds instead of being reconstructed.
Founding — your money goes in first
Before any investor believes in you, you believe in yourself. Caplio records every founder contribution — cash, personally-paid expenses, loans — as structured founder capital, not scattered receipts.
Spending — every dollar gets evidence
Each expense is scanned, categorised and tied to a receipt the moment it happens. Your spending stops being a shoebox and becomes a defensible ledger investors can audit line by line.
Proof — the evidence stack builds itself
Receipts, invoices, contracts and bank inflows link into one evidence trail. When diligence starts, you don't assemble documents — you open a link.
Ownership — the cap table takes shape
Founder shares, option pools, SAFEs and notes live in one cap table that always reconciles. Your diluted ownership is computed, not guessed — before you sign anything.
Rounds — raises modelled before they're real
Model a pre-seed with target, pre-money and option pool, and watch founder percentage shift in real time. When the round closes, the cap table, capital graph and investor room update together.
Readiness — investors see one continuous story
The Capital Graph connects founder money to company capital, rounds and today's ownership. Investors review a live data room instead of a static deck — and founders walk in already diligenced.
Watch your percentage before you sign it away.
Every raise reshapes ownership. Caplio models dilution before terms are agreed and shows exactly how each round moves founder, investor and pool percentages — so negotiation starts from clarity, not surprise.
Credibility by default
Numbers an investor can trace beat numbers a founder can recite. Caplio makes every claim verifiable.
Intelligence, not bookkeeping
Runway, burn, dilution and the Caplio Score are computed continuously — not assembled for a meeting.
Evidence as infrastructure
Receipts and documents aren't attachments. They're the connective tissue between money and story.
Your capital story started the day you did.
Start recording it now — contributions, receipts, ownership and rounds in one continuous record investors can trust.
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