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Certificate of incorporation, bylaws, board consents, EIN, founder stock, 83(b) support and IP assignment. Delivered as one flat fee package by a startup attorney, not a form filler.
Filing a certificate of incorporation in Delaware takes minutes and costs very little. What actually determines whether your company is investable is everything that happens in the two weeks after, and the order it happens in.
Form the company, then issue founder stock, then file 83(b) within 30 days. Get the sequence wrong and you are either fixing it later at cost, or you have permanently lost something.
The gaps a formation tool leaves behind, unsigned IP assignments, no board consents, a cap table that does not tie out, are the exact items an investor's diligence team lists before your first term sheet.
The 83(b) window is 30 days with no extension. QSBS qualification is set at issuance. Neither can be reopened once missed.
Certificate of incorporation with an authorised share structure sized for a future option pool, bylaws, initial board consents, registered agent, and EIN support including for founders without a social security number.
Restricted stock purchase agreements for each founder, with vesting, cliffs, and a vesting commencement date that credits work done before incorporation.
Prepared with filing instructions and tracked against the 30 day deadline, rather than mentioned to you after the fact.
A PIIA for every founder, drafted to reach through foreign entities where a founder sits outside the US, so the company genuinely owns what it was built on.
Structured to qualify from issuance, with a gross assets attestation recorded at the time so the position can be supported at exit.
An equity incentive plan now if you need to grant soon, or a straight recommendation to defer it to your seed round if you do not. We will tell you which.
Fees are fixed and quoted before any work begins. If your situation is unusual, founders in several countries, contributed patents, an existing entity to unwind, we quote the whole scope as one number rather than opening a meter.
Do you defer or cap fees until our seed round closes?
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Ask us. For companies with a credible near term raise we can often structure the engagement so the bulk lands after the round rather than before it. It is a conversation, not a published policy, and the answer depends on where you are.
Can you handle IP assignment for contributed patents?
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We handle the assignment documents and the clean chain of title into the company. For patent prosecution and USPTO recordation we coordinate with your patent counsel, or introduce you to counsel if you do not have any.
None of our founders are in the US. Can we still do this?
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Yes, and it is common. It affects EIN timing, IP assignment drafting, and how vesting should treat immigration or residency problems. It does not stop you incorporating in Delaware.
We already incorporated through a formation tool. Do we start over?
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Almost never. Usually it is a cleanup: issue the stock properly, get the IP assigned, produce the consents that were never signed, and see whether the 83(b) window is still open. Cheaper than a fresh start and quicker than you expect.
Delaware or somewhere else?
If you intend to raise from US venture investors, Delaware, because that is what their documents assume. If you are bootstrapping a local services business, the honest answer may be different, and we will say so.
Send us the founder count, where each of you sits, and whether anything is being contributed to the company. You get one number and a delivery date back.
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