Equity Defender Simulator

Run Your Numbers

Your cap table is a silent assassin. This simulator shows exactly how “just one round” turns into “why do I own 12% of my own company?” Toggle raise amounts and rounds, and watch ownership drop in real time—then compare it to non-dilutive paths. See dilution before it eats your future.

The Dirty Secret of the Series A

Why standard venture dilution is a multi-million dollar trap.

You’ve hit the milestone. Revenue is growing, the team is stretched thin, and it’s time to pour fuel on the fire. So, you start modeling a Series A.

You mentally prepare to give up 15% to 25% of your company. It stings, but that’s the cost of doing business, right? It’s the standard Silicon Valley playbook: raise, dilute, grow, repeat.

But here is the dirty secret of the venture track: dilution compounds. Founders rarely model past the current round. They look at the Series A hit and think, "I still own 75%, I'm fine." They don't factor in the 20% Series B hit, the 15% Series C hit, and the expanding option pools that cram down their shares at every single stage.

By the time you exit, you aren't the owner anymore. You are a minority shareholder in your own life's work.

Watch Your Ownership Evaporate

The terrifying math behind a "successful" venture track.

Let’s look at the actual math of a "successful" venture track.

Assume you enter Series A owning 100% of the equity.

Series A: You raise $2M on an $8M pre-money valuation ($10M post-money). You just sold 20%. You now own 80%.
Series B: To keep growing, you need $10M. The VCs take another 20%. You now own 64%.
Option Pool Refresh: The board demands a 10% refresh for key hires. You now own 57.6%.
Series C: You raise a massive growth round. 15% dilution. You now own 48.9%.

In three rounds, you lost majority control of your company. Worse, if you build this into a $100M company, that "standard" dilution just cost you over $50,000,000 in personal wealth compared to keeping your equity intact.

Calculate Your Personal Equity Bleed

Plug in your numbers. See your exact future losses in real-time.

See exactly how much personal wealth you are about to give away if you sign a standard VC term sheet—and what your ownership looks like if you fund your growth without giving up a single share.

The Non-Dilutive Escape Hatch

Stop funding predictable growth with permanent equity.

If you just played with the simulator, you are probably staring at a massive, multi-million dollar gap between the "VC Route" and the "Moonshine Route."

That gap is your hard-earned equity bleeding out.

Venture capital is an incredible tool for pre-revenue, highly speculative, moonshot companies. But if you have predictable revenue, solid margins, and clear growth metrics, selling your equity to fund customer acquisition or operational scale is the most expensive money you will ever take.

You don't need a VC to fund your growth. You need a capital stack that scales with you, keeping your cap table clean and your ownership at 100%.