Use cases • Startups & Founders

Startups & Founders

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Seamless digital incorporations
Digital formations in jurisdictions preferred by investors.
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Cap table & ESOP management
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As Clara’s first institutional investor, we knew intuitively from inception, this company will be a game changer!

We spend a lot of time educating founders on basic legal concepts: what they need to do for us to invest in them. Clara automates these functions. As Clara’s first institutional investor, we knew intuitively from inception, this company will be a game changer.From company formation to maintaining the cap-table, by using Clara founders can digitally form their companies in a range of jurisdictions, create and manage their cap-tables and generate legal documents. Clara is quickly becoming an integral part of the startup software stack.

– Vijay Tiratrai, Managing Director, Techstars

Our products

The tools you need to manage your startup

Use Clara’s suite of startup-focused products to form, manage and scale your business.

Incorporation

Formations for a digital world

Digitally form companies in key jurisdictions, including ADGM, DIFC, Cayman, Singapore, and BVI.

Built by lawyers

The DIFC prescribed company is a cost effective holding company option for tech startup founders across the world.
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Cost effective

A low-cost alternative to a trust that can be used for a variety of purposes including wealth management, family succession planning and asset protection.
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Equity Management

Redefining equity management

Start today or seamlessly transfer in from your existing cap table provider.
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Data privacy

Your cap table data is our best kept secret.

Scenario modelling

Accurately model ESOPs and conversion of SAFEs.
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Documents & Data Room

Creating legal documents is a delight with Clara

Use our free DocuSign integration to collect signatures and keep everything safe and automatically categorized in our smart data room.

Automated workflows

Generate legal documents in seconds and share them with others to review, comment and amend. Create your own customized templates.
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Safe and secure

We prioritize data privacy and security to keep your confidential information protected.
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Resources & Insights

Stories, updates and resources

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Education
May 11, 2023

Protecting your business with non-competes

One way to protect your startup from unfair competition is to include non-compete clauses in your employment contracts. You could also have a non-compete in the shareholders agreement that you sign with your investors.

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Clara
Aug 17, 2022

New feature | Introducing Cayman exempted companies on Clara!

Setting up a company in the Cayman Islands is quick, cost-effective, attractive to foreign investors and easy for founders to maintain. Creating an offshore company for your startup might seem daunting if you don’t know where to start, which is where Clara comes in.

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Clara
Nov 13, 2023

Clara’s latest product updates

Your journey on Clara just got a whole lot easier now thanks to our brand new dashboard. Our all-new dashboard is designed to make it easier to get to the parts of the Clara platform that matter to you, plus gives you also visibility and progress across a variety of tasks.

Binance uses Clara to incorporate and manage ADGM entities. The team at Clara are extremely efficient and go the extra mile to ensure we always have a smooth experience and meet our deadlines. Top-notch service!

Vishal Sacheendran
Head of Strategy and Operations, Binance

Starting a company is hard enough, but managing legal processes shouldn’t be. With Clara’s dedicated accelerator onboarding solution, companies can get the support and infrastructure they need to efficiently and professionally complete their legal due diligence and finalize an investment.

Amal Dokhan
General Partner MENA, 500 Global

Clara is a one-stop shop for everything equity related. All our data is safe and securely stored and accurately recorded. And our investors love having direct access. It has saved us countless hours and kept our cap table mistake free.

Jessica Anuna
CEO & Founder, Klasha

We spend a lot of time educating founders on basic legal concepts: what they need to do for us to invest in them. Clara automates these functions. As Clara’s first institutional investor, we knew intuitively from inception, this company will be a game changer.

Vijay Tirathrai
Managing Director, Techstars

You can’t beat Clara’s ESOP functionality. It allows us to grant options to our team in a few clicks while automatically updating our cap table. Truly next level.

Michael Hunter
Co-Founder & CEO, Holo

Founders often struggle with managing their legal function due to lack of expertise and resources. And we’ve seen poor legal structures create hurdles to our investing in otherwise healthy startups. Investors like ourselves love that Clara gives founders the tools they need to establish, grow and scale their startups from day one on a best-practice basis.

Shane Shin
Founding Partner, Shorooq

US cap table solutions aren’t tailored to the differentiated needs of international startups. Clara is the only cap table provider we found that had emerging market startups in mind. Add to that all the other things you can do on the Clara platform, from building your ESOP to data room management, and switching was a no brainer.

Omar Rifai
Co-founder, GrubTech

From company formation to maintaining the cap-table, by using Clara founders can digitally form their companies in a range of jurisdictions, create and manage their cap-tables and generate legal documents. Clara is quickly becoming an integral part of the startup software stack.

Daniel Dos Reis
Investment Director, Wamda Capital

Clara is a must-have for founders. Not only does it provide all the legal tools you need in a single platform, using Clara also signals to investors that you are a serious startup.

Mazen AlDarrab
Founder & CGO, Zid

IP Assignments, what? I didn’t even know they existed before Clara. For startups, setting up governance, corporate structures, data rooms and fundraising are all hard to get right. Clara’s legalOS is premium. It pays for itself.

Zohare Haider
Co-Founder & CEO, Jalebi

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Our customers operate from more than 45 different countries.

80%

Savings on fees
Our customers on average save more than 80% on their annual legal and admin fees.

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