Semper @MeetSemper
We help forward-looking companies attract and retain builders by giving them real ownership of the value they create. meetsemper.com London Joined October 2021-
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@MeetSemper has been acquired by @Crowdcube. Our mission remains the same: helping the iconic companies of today and tomorrow attract and retain the best talent by making equity more tangible.
Agree it should make late stage co’s rethink comp, but the solution should be more liquidity, not less equity.
I wonder how much this tech crash makes companies rethink stock-based comp for most workers (vs. senior execs). It's one thing for the CEO to eat their cooking; another for a mid-level engineer to see half their pay evaporate.
Super cool case study on how to create liquidity for employees in a private company. That's why I'm a big fan (and small investor) in @MeetSemper, a platform for structuring and executing employee liquidity programs to make employee options/shareholdings truly valuable.
So in 2018 I put 10% of the company into an equity pool for the team. Giving out real ownership to the team that built ConvertKit is one of my favorite moments in company history. We also started saving a small amount ($20k/mo) to have money available to buy back team shares.
@sethmills21 @jansenniklas Thanks @sethmills21!
@afehrenbacher @nmasc_ @AnitaRamaswamy @EquityPod @haslettp @EquityZen @sumukhsridhara @AngelList @BasisSet Would love to participate!
🌊 Equity Like Water ⛲ How do private companies improve liquidity and reward the people who make the company great? Read @YokoSpirig and @MeetSemper co-founder @pastormhm in @GBAFReview #equity #ownership #startups #secondaries hubs.la/Q01hFGQv0
Great to see the article we wrote with @YokoSpirig published in the Global Banking & Finance Review. To treat employees as real owners, companies should facilitate more liquidity. We are all underestimating the positive spillover effects this will have! globalbankingandfinance.com/equity-like-wa…
Real ownership means being able to sell to diversify & achieve life goals. Founders & investors know this but too often they didn’t include team members. @MeetSemper we’re building the infrastructure to make company wide programs effortless - now there’s no excuse!
At @MeetSemper, we're building the end to end infrastructure for companies to effortlessly offer liquidity to their teams - if you're a CEO, CFO, GC or Chief People Officer currently considering to introduce a liquidity policy at your company, we'd love to help you out!
Very proud to see @MeetSemper included in @solenebrebant's great overview of the CFO stack. As she highlights, CFOs have to deal with time-consuming & manual processes. We're building tools for one of the most time consuming processes they'll every undertake: secondaries.
The best investors know the game is changing: @BessemerVP is following @a16z and @sequoia in changing its status to a registered investment adviser. Why does that matter? It means they can now hold new kinds of investments including public stocks, tokens and… secondary shares!
Venture is a young asset class. Investing is tied to fundraising, which happens at infrequent intervals. This creates artificial scarcity and makes price discovery really complicated: its impossible to know what your equity is worth as an employee. Its gonna change though.
Venture is a young asset class. Investing is tied to fundraising, which happens at infrequent intervals. This creates artificial scarcity and makes price discovery really complicated: its impossible to know what your equity is worth as an employee. Its gonna change though.
@MeetSemper (founded by @Baltdelavergne and @pastormhm) is building the "CartaX for Europe"—a platform for issuers to run end-to-end liquidity events for their employees and investors. They raised $4.5M and launched from stealth earlier this year.
At @MeetSemper we're firm believers that increasing liquidity in private companies will be beneficial to all stakeholders. It's especially relevant in this market downturn: too few team members were given the opportunity to derisk when prices were high. liquiditywithsemper.substack.com/p/liquidity-ma…
This market reset will transform employee expectations around liquidity, private companies will make liquidity schedules a standard part of comp (like 1 yr cliff/4 yr vesting) to attract top talent and @MeetSemper will make this transition seamless for all parties involved.
BTW - this is somewhat a sign of a maturing + healthy secondary market, which is good for the ecosystem. Doesn't really make any sense that public comps would be down 75% but "nothing's on sale" in private market. 🧐
Be like @avimeir at @travelperk - treat your team like real owners and give them opportunities to diversify their portfolio & achieve life goals by letting them participate in secondary transactions. You will have a less stressed, happier, more empowered and more loyal team.
BTW - this is somewhat a sign of a maturing + healthy secondary market, which is good for the ecosystem. Doesn't really make any sense that public comps would be down 75% but "nothing's on sale" in private market. 🧐
Very excited to welcome Franck Laurent to the @MeetSemper team where he will be joining @Fauvdb to work on Investor Coverage. Franck will be the point of contact for investors looking to become shareholders of the fast-growing private companies Semper partners with.
If you’re a founder and want to include all team members in that secondary, @MeetSemper we’d love to run a Team Liquidity Program for you!
Good rule: SaaS founders are allowed to sell secondary at Series B, but only as much as their ARR.
Introducing @HaunVentures, a firm built for the next generation of the internet. We’ve raised $1.5 billion across two funds to invest in web3. An exciting first step, but the real work begins now. mirror.xyz/haunventures.e…
If you have any questions about managing equity, team liquidity, or anything else, you can contact us @MeetSemper (mathias@MeetSemper.com) or @Ledgy (armon@Ledgy.com)! You can read more about the announcement here: bit.ly/3KnL8pL
@MeetSemper will use @Ledgy as its preferred partner for cap table management, while Ledgy customers will be able to request liquidity via Semper. We’re excited to make a difference for companies seeking a better way to manage ownership!
Excited to announce our partnership w/ @Ledgy! @MeetSemper & @Ledgy have a common mission: making ownership real for the teams behind iconic companies. Together, we unlock the full value of equity, helping companies attract top talent & rewarding employees for their efforts.
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