I'm Dominic Jacquesson, Director of Talent at Index Ventures, and I'm looking forward to hearing your feedback on OptionPlan. We are constantly asked by entrepreneurs for advice on stock option grants, so decided to put something special out there to benefit the entire tech ecosystem. If you have, or are about to, raise your Series A, OptionPlan will help you to design a customised option plan in just a few minutes. Covers every role in your team Six different levels of allocation benchmarks Potential $ upside for each team member - including tax Covers the US, plus major European countries The benchmark data used in OptionPlan is based on an analysis of over 100 cap tables from the Index portfolio and 4,000 individual option grants. It also integrates US benchmark data from Option Impact, the Silicon Valley ‘gold standard’ (h/t). All in all, we believe this is the most comprehensive data ever made public, covering both the US and Europe. This is still a beta version, so we're looking for feedback to help us with UX/UI, and with additional features. Help us as a community to get better at rewarding talent :) PS: To learn more about building an employee stock option plan, you may also want to check out http://www.indexventures.com/Rew... to download the comprehensive handbook for entrepreneurs that we released alongside OptionPlan.

This is great, thanks Index team. I am adverse to "pitching" an exit valuation to employees (and I think all Execs should be), but otherwise, super helpful.

I wish I had this when we set up our option plan. Awesome idea and great execution of it!

Really well made and helpful tool. On top of helping design a plan, it simplifies the process of explaining everything to employees.

Fantastic work Dominic, we will be sharing with our portfolio, thank you!

Great work!

Pros:

Long overdue solution to help tech startup founders reward employees in a rational, unbiased manner.

Cons:

None that I can think of.