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    • Liquidity Solutions For Employees

      Learn about our exercise and liquidity offerings for your options and shares.

    • Secondary Sale

      Get cash by selling your options or shares through our network of buyers.

    • Non-Recourse Financing

      Get the cash you need to own your stock options or gain some liquidity. Repay when your company exits.

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    • Financial Advice For Employees

      Learn about our wealth management approach for those with equity.

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      Explore our liquidity options tailored for executives. Offering personalized strategies to help optimize your financial outcomes for your equity.

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      Discover our holistic wealth management services, designed specifically for executives to potentially maximize wealth and plan for the future.

  • Employee Benefits
    • Financing For Your Teams

      Learn about our equity solutions to support and empower your team.

    • Equity Education For Your Teams

      Learn about our services to educate your teams on equity, ensuring they are well-informed and can make the most of their equity compensation.

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      Comprehensive overview of Secfi's asset management strategies and services.

  • Offerings
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      Invest in late-stage startups through Secfi's expertly managed diversified fund.

    • Tailored SMA Vehicles

      Partner with Secfi for customized funds in late-stage private companies.

    • Secfi Secondaries

      Connect and invest in private equity of leading startups via Secfi.

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Introducing Maeve

Introducing Maeve.

AI built for your equity.

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  • Calculate
    • AMT Calculator

      Exercise incentive stock options without paying the alternative minimum tax.

    • Equity Planner

      Exercise now or at IPO? Sell on the secondary market or hold? Understand your options in less than 5 minutes.

    • Exercise Timing Planner

      Decide whether to exercise your stock options now or later.

    • Stock Options Tax Calculator

      Calculate the costs to exercise your stock options - including taxes.

    • Stock Option Exit Calculator

      See what your stock options could be worth.

    • Equity Compensation Calculator

      Confidently negotiate your equity compensation

  • Insights
    • Private Market Insights

      Value your pre-IPO stock with private market data

Resources
  • Resources
    • Secfi Learn

      Find answers, guides, explanatory videos, and more about your equity and finances.

    • Company Case Studies

      Curated content for employees of the best startups

  • Newsletter
    • Founders & Funders

      Weekly newsletter on what's happening in startups, venture capital, public markets, and more

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For Employees
  • Secfi Liquidity
    • Liquidity Solutions For Employees

      Learn about our exercise and liquidity offerings for your options and shares.

    • Secondary Sale

      Get cash by selling your options or shares through our network of buyers.

    • Non-Recourse Financing

      Get the cash you need to own your stock options or gain some liquidity. Repay when your company exits.

  • Secfi Wealth
    • Financial Advice For Employees

      Learn about our wealth management approach for those with equity.

For Executives
  • Secfi Liquidity
    • Full-Service Liquidity Solutions

      Explore our liquidity options tailored for executives. Offering personalized strategies to help optimize your financial outcomes for your equity.

  • Secfi Wealth
    • Full-Service Wealth Management

      Discover our holistic wealth management services, designed specifically for executives to potentially maximize wealth and plan for the future.

  • Employee Benefits
    • Financing For Your Teams

      Learn about our equity solutions to support and empower your team.

    • Equity Education For Your Teams

      Learn about our services to educate your teams on equity, ensuring they are well-informed and can make the most of their equity compensation.

For Investors
  • Secfi Asset Management
    • Secfi Asset Management Overview

      Comprehensive overview of Secfi's asset management strategies and services.

  • Offerings
    • Diversified Funds

      Invest in late-stage startups through Secfi's expertly managed diversified fund.

    • Tailored SMA Vehicles

      Partner with Secfi for customized funds in late-stage private companies.

    • Secfi Secondaries

      Connect and invest in private equity of leading startups via Secfi.

Tools
Introducing Maeve

Introducing Maeve.

AI built for your equity.

Try it now
  • Calculate
    • AMT Calculator

      Exercise incentive stock options without paying the alternative minimum tax.

    • Equity Planner

      Exercise now or at IPO? Sell on the secondary market or hold? Understand your options in less than 5 minutes.

    • Exercise Timing Planner

      Decide whether to exercise your stock options now or later.

    • Stock Options Tax Calculator

      Calculate the costs to exercise your stock options - including taxes.

    • Stock Option Exit Calculator

      See what your stock options could be worth.

    • Equity Compensation Calculator

      Confidently negotiate your equity compensation

  • Insights
    • Private Market Insights

      Value your pre-IPO stock with private market data

Resources
  • Resources
    • Secfi Learn

      Find answers, guides, explanatory videos, and more about your equity and finances.

    • Company Case Studies

      Curated content for employees of the best startups

  • Newsletter
    • Founders & Funders

      Weekly newsletter on what's happening in startups, venture capital, public markets, and more

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Equity-focused financial planning

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Get a free planning session with a financial advisor who knows how to align your stock options with your personal goals (plus, we can prep and file your taxes).

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Changing jobs? Should you exercise? How to minimize taxes?

Stock options can unlock financial possibilities but knowing how can be challenging. Our financial advisors know equity and startups like the back of their hand, to help you make the right decisions and get set up for financial success.

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  • Holistic financial review

    We start with a financial review, including your cash flow analysis, how stock options fit in, and your future financial goals, to be sure equity decisions are set in the context of your full financial picture.

  • Equity planning and evaluation

    Next, we’ll evaluate your equity grant including a 409A valuation analysis, model multiple strategies for exercising your stock options, and discuss tender offer or secondary sale decisions.

  • Liquidity and IPO planning

    We’ll build a comprehensive plan for your stock options, shares, and/or RSUs, including a company exit analysis, exercise plan, sell/hold strategy, risk hedging plan, and ways to minimize taxes. Plus, we can also prepare and file your taxes for an additional fee.

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Exercising & taxes
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Will I owe taxes when I exercise my stock options?

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Related resources

Check out Secfi Learn to understand more about your equity

  • Guide

    The complete guide to employee stock option taxes

  • Key Concept

    Yes, you get taxed when you exercise startup stock

  • Key Concept

    How to value stock options in a job offer letter

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PS. As an independent RIA, we also provide comprehensive financial planning, and investment management.

Our team of advisors provide startup builders with equity planning, financial advice, investment management, and opportunities to get exclusive access to private market investments.

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