FAQ
How RoundRaise compares
RoundRaise is a cap table, data room and SEIS/EIS advance assurance platform for UK startups. Here's how it stacks up against SeedLegals, Carta and Vestd, and answers to everything else founders ask us.
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At a glance
RoundRaise vs SeedLegals, Carta and Vestd
Six things that matter most when you're preparing a UK round.
| Capability | RoundRaise | SeedLegals | Carta | Vestd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model a round without touching your live cap table | Branches with a side-by-side diff, then merge into main | Round and exit modelling | Scenario modelling and deal pro formas | Round modelling via InVestd Raise |
| Change your cap table or data room with one prompt | Describe the change, attach the documents, approve the diff | Lawrence AI copilot and connected assistants | Step-by-step forms | Vestd AI search and chat assistant |
| SEIS/EIS advance assurance | Included on Standard | £499 add-on, or one included on Funding (£1,199/yr) | Free on Launch (under 25 stakeholders and up to $1M raised) | Via the £150/month InVestd Raise add-on |
| Data room | Per-investor links with NDA, expiry, watermark and investor Q&A | Group-based sharing | Watermarking and view tracking | Via the £150/month InVestd Raise add-on |
| Companies House filings | CS01 and SH01 generated from your live cap table | CS01 and SH01 e-filing | CS01 and SH01 filing | Two-way Companies House integration |
| Price and commitment | Free plan with your real cap table, then £70/month or £672/year. Monthly plan cancels anytime | £649–£2,699/year, billed annually | Free on Launch, then quote-only | Essentials from £25/month, Starter from £225/month, 12-month minimum |
The agent
One sentence instead of a workflow
Anything you'd add, remove, change or ask about on your cap table or data room. Describe it, attach the documents, and it's done. Elsewhere, each of these is its own form.
- Cap table
“Add Sarah to the option pool: 10,000 options, 4-year vesting, 1-year cliff.”
board-minutes.pdf - Cap table
“Issue 5,000 shares to Blue Horizon at £2.40.”
subscription-agreement.pdf - Cap table
“Record a transfer of 2,000 shares from James to Priya.”
stock-transfer-form.pdf - Data room
“Share the data room with Northstar Ventures, NDA required, and email them the link.”
- Data room
“Move the updated financials into the Due Diligence folder.”
financials-q3.xlsx - Cap table
“What's my fully diluted stake if we raise £500k at a £2.5m pre?”
- Cap table
“Branch main and model a £500k seed at £2.5m pre with the pool topped up to 10%.”
Year-one cost
What your first SEIS round costs
A year on each platform, with SEIS/EIS advance assurance included. On RoundRaise that's £672 on the annual plan or £840 paying monthly, with no volume-based pricing and no percentage of your round.
- RoundRaise£672
Standard billed yearly (£56/month), or £840 paying monthly. Advance assurance included.
- SeedLegals£1,148
Access (£649/yr) plus the £499 advance assurance add-on.
- Vestd£2,100+
Essentials (from £25/month) plus InVestd Raise (£150/month), each with a 12-month minimum.
RoundRaise vs SeedLegals: which is better for a first SEIS round?
RoundRaise includes SEIS/EIS advance assurance in its Standard plan, at £70 a month or £672 a year. On SeedLegals, advance assurance is a £499 add-on to the £649-a-year Access plan, or comes once with the £1,199-a-year Funding plan. Both now have AI assistants. On RoundRaise, the agent works on a branch of your cap table, so you review the diff and approve before anything is merged.
- Agent changes land on a branch with a diff you approve: option grants, share issues and transfers
- Advance assurance included, not an add-on
- Per-investor data room links with NDA, expiry and watermarking
Where SeedLegals fits better
Need shareholder agreements or round documents drafted and signed? That's what SeedLegals is built for. RoundRaise doesn't draft or e-sign legal documents.
Is RoundRaise a good Carta alternative for UK startups?
Carta's free Launch plan covers you while you have fewer than 25 stakeholders and have raised up to $1M. Beyond that, its plans are quote-only. RoundRaise has a free plan for your real cap table, then £70 a month, published and flat, and built around UK rounds: SEIS/EIS advance assurance, CS01 and SH01 filings, and an agent that changes your cap table or data room from a single prompt.
- Published, flat pricing that doesn't change when you pass 25 stakeholders or $1M raised
- One prompt instead of a workflow, for your cap table and your data room
- Built UK-first, around SEIS/EIS
Where Carta fits better
Carta's free plan is hard to beat for a very small cap table, and it's designed to scale with companies heading into large US-style rounds.
RoundRaise vs Vestd: what's the difference?
Vestd Essentials starts at £25 a month and Starter, its share scheme plan, at £225, both with a 12-month minimum term. SEIS/EIS advance assurance needs the £150-a-month InVestd Raise add-on, so at least £175 a month in all. RoundRaise is £70 a month, cancel anytime, with advance assurance and a data room included.
- Advance assurance at £70 a month rather than £175, with no 12-month lock-in
- Advance assurance and a data room without add-ons
- One prompt instead of a workflow, for your cap table and your data room
Where Vestd fits better
Vestd is built around share schemes and specialises in them. RoundRaise's agent can set up an employee share scheme on your cap table, but if schemes are the main thing you need, Vestd goes deeper.
Questions
Everything else founders ask us
About RoundRaise
RoundRaise is a cap table, data room and SEIS/EIS advance assurance platform for UK startups. You manage ownership, branch your cap table to model rounds, prepare advance assurance, share a secure data room and generate CS01 and SH01 filings in one place. You can start free with your real cap table; Standard is £70 a month.
No. RoundRaise doesn't match founders with investors or make introductions. It's a cap table, data room and SEIS/EIS advance assurance platform, so when you've found your investors, your round is modelled on a branch, your advance assurance is in hand, and your data room is ready to share. The investor CRM is for the investors you're already talking to: RoundRaise doesn't provide investor lists.
Anything you'd add, remove, change or ask about on your cap table or data room. Add someone to the option pool, issue shares, record a transfer, or ask what a round does to your ownership and it opens a branch, runs the round and shows you the diff. Compare two branches, merge the one you go with, or roll back. It drafts SEIS/EIS advance assurance and SH01 and CS01 packs from your live numbers. In the data room, create share links, email an investor their link, or move documents into folders, and in the CRM it flags who has gone quiet. Attach the supporting documents and the agent does the rest. Nothing moves until you approve it. Making changes is on Standard; on Free, Ask answers 5 questions a day about your cap table, including "what if" modelling.
Early-stage UK startups preparing for or running a round, especially SEIS and EIS raises. Cap table branches work for companies anywhere, but SEIS/EIS advance assurance is UK-only, since those are UK tax schemes.
Branches and detail
A full working copy of your cap table. Run a round, a grant or a restructure on it, compare it with your live table line by line, then merge it or throw it away. Nothing changes on the real table until you merge, and the full history means you can see what the table looked like on any date.
Everything from fully diluted ownership down to a single option grant's vesting schedule. You click from the company into a share class, then a holder, then one grant, with risks flagged at each level, such as unvested founder equity or a departed co-founder with no leaver terms.
Only if you share it. You can send an investor a view-only cap table link alongside their data room, choose what's visible, and revoke it at any time.
SEIS/EIS
Yes. RoundRaise has a free SEIS/EIS eligibility checker at roundraise.co.uk/seis-eis. Seven questions show which scheme looks likely, how much you can still raise under each, and your deadlines, with no sign-up.
Yes. Advance assurance is included in the £70-a-month Standard plan, with no add-on fee.
You do. RoundRaise pre-fills the advance assurance pack from your cap table; you review it and submit it to HMRC.
Drafting takes around 15 minutes on average, because the pack is pre-filled from the cap table you already keep on RoundRaise. HMRC's response time is separate and varies.
Pricing
Free covers your real cap table (up to 6 shareholders), one branch, a 250 MB data room and an investor CRM for up to 8 investors. Standard is £70 a month, or £672 a year paid upfront (£56 a month, 20% off), and removes the limits: unlimited branches, the agent, full data rooms and CRM, SEIS/EIS advance assurance and CS01/SH01 filings. There's no volume-based pricing and no percentage of your round.
Yes. Enterprise is for accelerators, incubators, universities and angel networks. It gives every founder in your cohort Standard, one dashboard across your portfolio, bulk onboarding and SEIS/EIS readiness at a glance, priced per cohort or portfolio. Book a call to talk it through.
Yes, on the monthly plan: it runs to the end of the current month, with no lock-in and no cancellation penalty. The annual plan is paid upfront and runs for 12 months. If you stop paying, nothing is lost: your data stays, and anything over the Free limits becomes read-only.
Import your existing cap table directly from SeedLegals, Carta, Vestd or a spreadsheet, with no manual re-entry. Standard, monthly or annual, also includes white-glove onboarding from your previous provider, so we'll help you check everything has come across correctly.
Data and security
Yes. RoundRaise is built to comply with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and your data is hosted on UK infrastructure. You can delete your account in one action.
Only the people you share it with. Each investor gets their own link, which you can protect with an NDA, set to expire, watermark and revoke at any time, and you can see who opened what.
Tell it your next round before an investor sees it.
Put your real cap table in for free, open a branch, and see exactly what moves.
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