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How to use Struck
Step-by-step guides for the jobs a raise and a company involve, and a short explanation of every screen. Signed in and stuck on a screen? Ask the assistant in the bottom corner; it answers from the same articles and links straight to the place the work happens.
Running a raise
The dataroom, investors, signing, payment and completion.
- GuideStart a raiseCreate the raise from Fundraising in the company's sidebar, choose the instrument and the size, and land on Raise steps.Read the guide
- GuideSet up a dataroomBuild the folders investors expect, add the documents, and decide what sits in front of the NDA and what sits behind it.Read the guide
- GuideControl who sees what in the dataroomInvestor groups, the folder grid, per-document grants, the teaser tier and the NDA gate: the controls that decide what each investor can open.Read the guide
- GuideReview your dataroom before investors doRun the room review, work through what it finds, and run it again after fixing documents, so investors meet a room that agrees with itself.Read the guide
- GuideImport documents from Google Drive or DropboxBring files into the dataroom straight from cloud storage, with the same review step as an upload.Read the guide
- GuideInvite investors to a raiseClear the readiness checks, then invite people from your contacts, a pasted list or by hand, each into the right group.Read the guide
- GuideQualify investors under s708Record each investor's classification, get the accountant's certificate where one is needed, and keep the raise inside the 20-investor and $2 million caps.Read the guide
- GuidePrepare the legal packLock the terms, name who signs for the company, set the receiving account, and turn the lawyer's subscription agreement into the pack every investor signs.Read the guide
- GuideAllocate and send packs for signatureTurn indications into allocations, confirm them by email, then generate and send each investor's pack.Read the guide
- GuideCountersign and record paymentsMake each subscription binding with the company's countersignature, then track the money as it reaches the company's own account.Read the guide
- GuideComplete the raise and issue sharesStart the close, write the new holders onto the register with their certificates, and work the statutory checklist to the end.Read the guide
- GuideTake applications into a fundAdd the fund, set up its standing offer with a minimum and dealing dates, accept each application, and hand the ready ones to the fund administrator.Read the guide
How it works
- What Struck is
- Finding your way around
- How a raise runs, start to finish
- Instruments and terms
- Negotiating the term sheet
- The legal pack
- How the dataroom protects documents
- Finding your way back to documents
- Start here: the files investors read first
- Seeing the room as an investor sees it
- Dataroom access by group
- The engagement report
- The room review
- Q&A and fair disclosure
- Team discussion
- The cap table an investor sees
- The s708 caps in practice
- Personal offers and outreach
- Investor engagement
- Broadcasts to the raise
- Allocations and scale-back
- Signing packs and countersigning
- Payments and settlement
- Completion: issue, register and ASIC
- A fund offer's settings and dealing dates
- Dealing: handing applications to the administrator
- Applying to a fund
- The raise landing investors arrive at
- Raise settings and advisors
- The audit trail
- Pre-emptive offers
- Amendments
- Who sees what
- The raise Overview
The company's records
The register, the ESOP, updates, statements and compliance.
- GuideSet up the company and import its registerCreate the company, bring in the existing cap table from a spreadsheet, and invite the team.Read the guide
- GuideKeep the register currentRecord an issue, a transfer, a buy-back or a cancellation, and correct a mistake without rewriting history.Read the guide
- GuideRecord option grantsSet up the option pool, record each grant or import its letter, and exercise options onto the register.Read the guide
- GuidePost an investor updateSend news to everyone on the register, or to everyone with access to the company profile.Read the guide
- GuideProduce year-end holding statementsOne statement per holder for each completed income year, drawn from the register.Read the guide
- GuideTrack statutory dates and lodge Form 484Record the officers, keep the minute book, draft the ASIC form from the register, and let the calendar count the days.Read the guide
How it works
- Funds on Struck
- Standing share offers
- The register of members
- The ESOP
- Modelling the next round
- Year-end holding statements
- Starting and finding raises
- Advisor fees and commissions
- The company's investor directory
- Investor updates
- The company vault
- Rehearsing diligence
- Company compliance
- ESIC status
- The company profile
- The company's public page
- Company settings and hand-over
- The company activity feed
For advisors
Raises across a firm, its investors, earnings and licensing.
For investors
Your profile, invitations, holdings and executed documents.
Your account
Personal settings and the workspace calendar.
How it works
The rules behind a raise
The law the screens apply, explained for someone who has never raised before: who you can sell shares to, what the paperwork is, how employee shares and the ESIC offset work, and who needs a licence.
Open the explainersGlossary
Every term of art Struck uses, in plain words: s708, pro-rata, countersign, scale-back and the rest.
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