Runway is limited. Growth shouldn't be.
Pay operators, agencies, and specialists with equity and milestone-based deals. Keep your runway. Grow anyway.
Jamie Liu
Founder, Syntra AILooking for: fractional CTO
20 hrs/week • 12 month engagementMarcus Reid
Ex-Stripe • 12 yrs expDeal closed!
$4,500/month retainer • 0.2% equity • 1-year vest 3-month cliff
Hiring is broken for early-stage startups
Senior operators cost $180K+. Agencies want $20K upfront. Legal help bills $400/hour. You need all of them. You can't afford any of them.
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Market-rate compensation Burn 3-6 months of runway per senior hire
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Everyone wants cash upfront Equity could work, but operators don't trust startups they don't know
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No infrastructure for flexible deals Every deal is custom, slow, and full of legal gaps
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Misaligned incentives Tracking milestones and managing payouts can be a nightmare
Make equity and hybrid compensation actually work
Benchmarked terms. Automated contracts. Milestone tracking. Integrated payouts.
Built for both sides of the table
Pre-Seed to Series A
You're moving fast but watching every dollar. You need operators who can actually execute, but paying $10K-$20K/month upfront isn't an option.
Fractional leaders, agencies & specialists
You've thought about offering equity deals but the operational mess isn't worth it. Until now.
From listing to deal in days
A simple, transparent process designed for speed
Post your role
Need a Fractional Exec? Agency? Developer? Post the role, set your comp mix (cash, equity, milestones), define scope. 5 minutes.
Review operators
Experienced operators apply with their terms. Request NDAs for privacy. Review backgrounds, compare offers, pick finalists.
Sign and start
Negotiate in the dealroom. Standard contracts auto-generate. E-sign and they start next week.
Set up your profile
Your background, what roles you take, how you want to work (cash + equity mix, hours, duration).
Browse or get matched
See listings from vetted founders, or get matched based on your expertise. Request startup data for visibility.
Close more deals faster
Accept offers through the platform. Win deals that would've died without flexible terms. Build a portfolio of startup equity.
Trusted by founders and operators
Paying in milestones instead of upfront cash saved our runway when we needed it most. The difference between us and other founders who couldn't make these deals work? Trust, the one thing everyone talks about but nobody can actually build into a contract.
I was recently discussing collaboration with a founder who was offering equity, but without a platform set up to manage it or templates in place to move it forward effectively it didn't feel real.
We couldn't afford a full-time growth marketer at $120K+, but Capstacker helped us structure a revenue-share deal. Our marketer is fully aligned with our success, and we've grown from $10K to $50K MRR in 4 months.
Paying in milestones instead of upfront cash saved our runway when we needed it most. The difference between us and other founders who couldn't make these deals work? Trust, the one thing everyone talks about but nobody can actually build into a contract.
I was recently discussing collaboration with a founder who was offering equity, but without a platform set up to manage it or templates in place to move it forward effectively it didn't feel real.
We couldn't afford a full-time growth marketer at $120K+, but Capstacker helped us structure a revenue-share deal. Our marketer is fully aligned with our success, and we've grown from $10K to $50K MRR in 4 months.
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