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Every Question We Ask Before Filing
For one founder or as many as 8. Every answer is written into the documents, so nothing arrives as a blank for you to complete later.
- 01
Your company
The name is checked against Delaware records as you type, so a taken one never reaches the filing.
Company name, principal office, authorized shares, par value, fiscal year end.
- 02
Founders and their shares
Your cap table is built as you answer, not reconstructed afterwards.
Each founder's name and address, titles, board seats, and the shares they take, outstanding and fully diluted.
- 03
Vesting and separation terms
Set once for everyone, or per founder where the deal is not the same.
Vesting schedule and cliff, when vesting starts, repurchase terms on separation, and single or double trigger acceleration.
- 04
Stock transfer restrictions
The transfer restrictions that live in the bylaws.
A right of first refusal, board consent for transfers, both, or freely transferable stock.
- 05
The equity plan
The plan your future hires' options are granted under, adopted at incorporation rather than bolted on later.
Whether to adopt one, and how much of the company the option pool reserves.
- 06
EIN and state registrations
The two filings that follow the certificate.
Your EIN, filed free, and registering to do business in the states you actually work in.
$400
Paid once. No subscription needed to form.
- The filing
Delaware's filing fee is included, on next-day expedited processing. Arabella files the certificate of incorporation and returns the stamped copy the state sends back.
- The agent
A full year of registered agent service in Delaware, which every corporation is required to have. Renewals are yours to keep or to move elsewhere.
- The documents
Every document below, generated from your answers, plus a cap table you can model in with the formulas live.
Attorney drafted foundational documents for startups
Generated from your answers, for one founder or several. Sign them in Arabella, or download the whole set.
The company itself
Certificate of incorporation
The charter filed with Delaware. It creates the corporation and sets the authorized shares.
Bylaws
The company's internal operating rules, including how stock may be transferred.
Incorporator consent
The incorporator appoints your board and adopts the bylaws, then steps away.
Board consent
Your board's first actions: officers appointed, stock issued, core contracts approved.
Secretary's certificate
The Secretary certifies the bylaws are the ones the company adopted.
Founder Documents
Founder stock purchase agreements
Each founder's stock purchase: shares, price, and the vesting schedule.
83(b) elections
The tax election that locks in today's low share value. Must be transmitted to the IRS within 30 days.
IP, Inventions & Ownership
Confidentiality and IP assignment
What each founder creates for the company belongs to the company, in the form your state requires.
Technology assignment
Transfers anything a founder built before incorporation into the company.
Indemnification agreements
The company commits to defend and cover this person for acts taken as a director or officer.
Corporate Governance Consents
All Board and stockholder consents to approve the foregoing.
Equity for the people you hire
The Equity Incentive Plan (or Stock Option Pool)
The stock plan your future hires' options and awards will be granted under.
Corporate Governance Consents
All Board and stockholder consents to approve the plan and the awards.
Form Grant Agreements for Stock Options (NSOs and ISOs) and Restricted Stock
Grant stock options and restricted stock to future hires and advisors using the Arabella equity platform.
Model Out Your Pre-Seed and Seed Rounds
Use Arabella’s pro forma tool to model out dilution from your rounds. Update the valuation, option pool and cap table. Download your pro forma model and send straight to investors.
Illustrative: two founders, a B2B SaaS raising at customary valuations. Your own numbers go in the tool.
Issue Equity to Employees and Advisors
Adopt an equity incentive plan and issue stock options and restricted stock awards, properly, to advisors and employees. Set vesting schedules and manage grants on the cap table automatically.
Build Your Company with Arabella
Join Arabella for monthly access to chat, the contract library, the redline tool, and the fundraising module for raising pre-seed and seed rounds. Cancel anytime.
- Launch$20/mo
Access to the Arabella platform, with a monthly credit allowance.
For early startups with occasional legal work. 1,000 monthly credits for contracts, redlines, and company documents.
- Build$100/mo
Unlimited access to the Arabella platform, with no credit limit.
For startups hiring, selling, or preparing to raise. Unlimited redlines and document customizations, plus email support.
- Scale$300/mo
Everything in Build, plus time with an attorney every month.
For funded teams that need ongoing attorney access. Everything in Build, plus three 30-minute attorney business calls each month.
All your questions answered.
Plain answers from attorney to the simple and highly complex questions.