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Paaaaarty! 🎉 We’re throwing a birthday bash to celebrate The Community Collective, Cake, and LUNA! This will be an epic evening where community and collaboration take center stage. We're bringing together the coolest founders, startup enthusiasts, and community builders in this event! Expect an evening packed with networking opportunities and chats with the most influential voices from the Aussie startup scene! Including Rachel Yang, 🙌 Garry Williams, Jason Atkins, Jaala Alex, Josh Sharma, Damon Klotz, Lauren Morrey and more announcing soon... Oh, and yes... there will be cake. 🍰   Don’t forget to RSVP–slots are filling up as we speak! We can't wait to see you there! Secure your ticket now, the link is in the comments section.

I just gave our awesome customer success team a sneak preview of an super useful feature coming soon to Cake... so many emojis and gifs were used! 😱 Can't wait to show it off to the epic community of startups and scaleups using Cake to manage their employee incentive plans! 👀 Any guesses what it might be? 🙋♀️ John Vincent Fuentes Elin Frid Shannon Griffin Charlie Ross Ines Gvozdich Nick Cust 🍰

Cake and Rampersand aim to better understand employee equity sentiment and explore ways to simplify equity distribution and understanding for employees and the broader startup community across Australia. We are looking for: ✅ startup founders who issue/plan to issue equity to their employees ✅ startup employees who have been issued equity The startup community will greatly benefit from your insights if you take a few minutes to answer this survey. The link to the survey is in the comments below. Thank you! 🍰

Here’s what’s new from Cake in July 2024 🍰 We’re still busy in the kitchen coming up with ways to make your experience simpler, faster, and more powerful. Got any feature requests? Be sure to let our team know in the comments, we love feedback 👩🍳

If there's one thing our co-founder Kim H. is enthusiastic about, it's startups. Here's a few of his thoughts on matters of motivation, teamwork and of course equity.

Know your NSOs from your ISOs vs RSUs. Get a comprehensive guide to issuing stock options in the U.S. and the U.K. ✅ Key elements common to ESOPs ✅ Who qualifies for each stock option ✅ Detailed explanations of tax implications and restrictions For years, Jason Atkins, has consistently leaned Airtree Open Source VC content, so Cake is proud to announce that we’re giving a little back with our own contributions. Link to the guide in the comments below.

We're all about motivating startups, and that's why we love events like this.

Doing your ESS reports can be a struggle. That's why Cake brings you a webinar to simplify ESS reporting and make things easier for founders. Whether you’re a long-time Cake user or someone currently exploring options for effective ESS reporting, we made sure you’ll gain insights into your obligations and learn how to use the latest tools for ESS compliance. ESS? Yes yes! Why should you attend this webinar? - Learn the new Cake feature that simplifies the ESS reporting process. - Receive the most recent updates on ESS reporting. - Connect with peers who are having similar ESS challenges. Secure your spot now. Register using the link below so you can breeze through your ESS reports! Jason Atkins Stewart Williams Deloitte Callum Davidson

A fantastic night was brewing at Balter's Brewing last evening for City of Gold Coast's tech ecosystem event. Jason Atkins had the chance to speak on a fantastic panel about our offerings and and especially why we’re so motivated to be part of the Gold Coast Tech industry. In partnership with Cohort Innovation Space Auto-Guru Eden Shirley Five V Capital Emma Crichton AutogenAI

Are ESOP clawback clauses common amongst Aussie startups? 🤔 On this week's episode of The Startup Retro (our brand new podcast!), Will Richards interviewed Co-founder & CEO of Cake, Kim H., because he's an expert on all things startup equity and ESOP. Here's what he had to say on the question of clawback clauses (the ability for an employer to take back an employee's share options if they breach certain agreement terms) 👇