Share register · Employee equity · Statutory books
The book of record for your company’s shares and options
Capmatter keeps the share ledger an Indian company runs its equity on, and builds the cap table, the statutory registers, ESOP administration and tax workings from it. Posted entries are never edited: a correction is a void, with a reason, that stays on the record.
| No. | Date | Entry | Holder | Class | Shares | Consideration (₹) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 Mar 2022 | Allotment, subscribers | A. Rao | Equity | 6,00,000 | 60,000.00 |
| 2 | 14 Mar 2022 | Allotment, subscribers | N. Iyer | Equity | 4,00,000 | 40,000.00 |
| 3 | 02 Nov 2023 | Allotment, Series A | Kestrel Fund I | CCPS A | 1,48,000 | 6,10,64,800.00 |
| 4 | 19 Jun 2024 | Transfer | N. Iyer → Lumen LLP | Equity | 20,000 | 82,52,000.00 |
| 5 | 08 Jan 2026 | Exercise, grant G-0141Voided | S. Menon | Equity | 4,000 | 40,000.00 |
| 6 | 09 Jan 2026 | Exercise, grant G-0142 | S. Menon | Equity | 4,000 | 40,000.00 |
| Shares in issue | 11,52,000 | |||||
What the register holds
Six chapters, one ledger underneath. Each chapter reads from the same entries, so the cap table, the registers and the tax workings cannot disagree with each other.
- Cap tableIssued and fully diluted, by holder and class
- Statutory registersMembers, allotments, transfers, ESOPs, certificates
- ESOP administrationPools, grants, vesting, exercises, surrenders
- Tax workingsPerquisite value for TDS, Ind AS 102 expense
- Documents and exportsGenerated from the register, versioned
- Holder portalsEach person sees only their own equity
- 01MGT-1 · SH-1 · SH-4
Ownership
Holders, share classes and the share ledger. Allotments, transfers, certificates, convertibles and corporate actions such as splits, bonus and rights issues.
- 02SH-6 · s.192(1C)
Employee equity
Option, SAR and phantom plans and their pools. Grants and vesting, grant acceptance, exercise requests and windows, surrenders, and statements for each employee.
- 03Rule 11UA · PAS-3
Capital
Financing history and priced rounds written to the ledger, saved scenarios, the dilution simulator and exit waterfall, valuation reports and liquidity programmes.
- 04MGT-14 · FC-GPR · FC-TRS
Governance
Board and general meetings, resolutions, insider-trading controls, a compliance calendar derived from your transactions, and FEMA filings.
- 05PDF · CSV · XLSX
Records
Documents generated from the register with a versioned history, signature tracking, read-only data rooms, exports and spreadsheet import.
- 06DPI · TVPI
Funds
For funds and SPVs that hold equity: LP commitments, capital calls, distributions and portfolio marks.
One entry, followed through
An employee exercises options. In a spreadsheet that is four edits in four files. In the register it is one approved entry, and everything that depends on it is recomputed.
- Vested
- 7,000
- Exercised
- 4,000
- Exercisable
- 3,000
- 09:12Employee portalS. Menon asks to exercise 4,000 vested options from grant G-0142 and records the payment reference.
- 11:40ApprovalSomeone in the workspace with permission to manage employee equity approves the request.
- 11:40Share ledgerEntry 6 allots 4,000 equity shares at the exercise price. The entry can later be voided, never edited.
- 11:40RegistersThe register of members and the register of ESOPs (SH-6) show the new position.
- 11:40Tax workingsThe perquisite value is computed from the latest fair-market-value report, ready for payroll TDS.
- 11:40Cap tableFully diluted ownership moves 4,000 from options outstanding to shares in issue.
By the numbers that matter to a company secretary
- Exports, from the fully diluted cap table to a diligence summary
- 18
- Statutory registers kept from the ledger: members, allotments, transfers, ESOPs, certificates
- 5
- Liquidity programme types: buyback, ESOP surrender, tender offer, secondary
- 4
- Edits to a posted ledger entry. Corrections are voids with a reason
- 0
Counted from the product, October 2026.
Controls
A cap table is a legal record. These are the rules Capmatter enforces on it, most of them in the database itself rather than in the screen.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Two-person approval | Optional, per company. When it is on, the database refuses an approval from the person who submitted the record. |
| Append-only ledger | Posted entries are never edited or deleted. A void records who made it, when, and why, and the original stays visible. |
| Isolation per company | Row-level policies in the database limit every query to the companies a person belongs to. |
| Portal scope | Employees and investors see only the grants and holdings recorded against their own verified email. |
| Workings shown | Tax, fair value, waterfall and dilution figures show their inputs and can be exported as workings. |
From people using Capmatter
I honestly found Capmatter quite easy to use. Usually equity related things feels very confusing, but here everything is in one place and you can actually understand what is happening. It saves a lot of back and forth.
Nisha
For us as founders, equity is something you really need to keep track of properly, especially as the team grows. Capmatter makes that whole thing much easier. I like that we can see the ownership, ESOPs and everything in one place instead of maintaining different sheets.
Faazil Zia · Co-founder, Sentra AI
I was initially expecting it to be a little complicated because equity management usually is. But Capmatter is actually pretty straightforward. You can see the important information quickly and don't have to go through a lot of unnecessary stuff. That was the part I liked.
Shree Kumar · Founder, Solar72
What I liked about Capmatter is that it doesn't feel like one of those softwares which is made only for finance people. The information is quite simple to understand and the overall platform is very clean. For someone who is not dealing with equity every day, that makes a big difference.
Riddhi Pareek
We have used spreadsheets for these things before and honestly it becomes messy very quickly. With Capmatter, everything is much more organised. I can just open it and get an idea of the ownership and other details without searching through multiple files. It's been quite useful for us.
Shashwat Singh
Help from the Capmatter team
Optional, for companies that arrive with a spreadsheet and a folder of filings. You ask from inside the app. During the current pilot there is no fee. Places are limited, and pricing after the pilot is under review.
- Records migration
- Up to two remote working sessions per company, of up to 90 minutes each. You share your screen, and we help map your existing cap table, holders, grants and share history into Capmatter and check them against your filings. You get a note of every difference we see; your team decides and runs the import.
- Workspace set-up session
- One remote session per company, of up to 60 minutes, to set up roles and permissions, two-person approval, portal access for employees and investors, and the reports your team needs.
- What we do not do
- Valuation reports, ESOP trusteeship, secretarial filings, and legal, tax or plan-design advice. Those need qualified professionals; Capmatter keeps the register their work relies on.
Open your company’s register
Import your cap table and grants, invite the people who keep the books, and give each employee a portal to their own equity.