Webinar: Your Cap Table is Your Strategy
Your cap table isn’t just a record of who owns what, it’s a blueprint for how your company will operate, grow, and make decisions.
Join Charlie O’Donnell of nextNYC and Chris Fenster of Propeller Industries for a 30-minute webinar on how the people you bring onto your cap table quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) shape your company’s strategy. From angels to institutional investors, every check comes with expectations, incentives, and timelines that can influence everything from hiring to growth pace to exit outcomes.
Too often, founders think about fundraising as a series of transactions. In reality, it’s the assembly of a stakeholder group that will impact your company long after the round closes.
In this session, we’ll dig into:
How different types of investors influence company strategy in practice
The hidden tradeoffs between “helpful” capital and aligned capital
Why your cap table can create pressure (or flexibility) around growth and exits
Common mistakes founders make when optimizing for valuation over alignment
How to think about building a cap table that supports the company you actually want to build
Whether you’re raising your first round or thinking about your next one, this conversation will help you approach your cap table as a strategic decision, not just a financial one.
About Chris Fenster:
Chris is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Propeller Industries, an embedded finance and accounting partner to some of the most iconic venture and growth-stage companies of the last two decades. Since 2008, Propeller has scaled to 250 people across three continents, serving more than 1,400 companies that have collectively raised over $20B in capital and produced over $80B+ in enterprise value — including 22 unicorns and breakout brands like Hims & Hers, Planet Labs, Braze, and Olipop. Today, Chris is focused on a second transformation: building an AI-enabled financial platform powered by what no single startup could build alone — enterprise-grade data infrastructure drawn from 18 years embedded inside hundreds of high-growth companies.
This is event is hosted by nextNYC. To learn more about nextNYC and/or sign up for their newsletter, visit http://next.nyc