SAFE cap from the money and the stake
Enter the money you want to raise and the part of the company you agree to sell. See the post-money cap and where it sits among recent Carta caps.
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Set the money and the percentage. The cap follows.
Type the amount you want to raise on post-money SAFEs, and the part of the company you agree to sell.
Type an amount from $10K to $25M.
- Post-money cap
- $6.67M
- $1M ÷ 15%
- Pre-money
- $5.67M
- $6.67M − $1M
- Median cap
- $18M
- Q2 2026 only, rounds of $1M to $2.4M
- At the median cap
- 5.56%
- $1M ÷ $18M
Your cap against caps for rounds of $1M to $2.4M, Q1 2025 to Q2 2026
- Your cap
- $6.67M
- 10th percentile
- $8M
- 25th percentile
- $10M
- Median
- $15M
- 75th percentile
- $25M
- 90th percentile
- $40M
What you sell if the round changes size
- $500K raised
- 7.5%
- $1M raised
- 15%
- $1.5M raised
- 22.5%
- $2M raised
- 30%
To sell 15% for $1M, set a post-money cap of $6.67M. Your cap is below the 10th percentile of caps for rounds of $1M to $2.4M.
Three of four rounds of this size had a higher cap, so their investors paid more for each part of the company. At the Q2 2026 median cap, the same $1M sells 5.56%.