Life events won’t wait around for your company to IPO and restricted private stock isn’t an asset that traditional lenders will accept as collateral, but ESO offers a solution.If you partner with ESO on the shares you already own, we’ll advance cash to you based on the future potential of this stock. No payments are due unless there is a major liquidity event, such as a sale or IPO. If the stock becomes valueless, ESO takes the loss. This way you can have your cake and eat it too: getting liquidity now to pay for your life events, while retaining future upside potential
Here’s how our process works:
1. Intro Call
• Introduce yourself and your situation, and feel free to ask as many questions about ESO that you would like.
2. Get a personalized offer
• We will conduct due diligence and get back to you with our decision.
3. Close
• Once we extend an offer and the terms are accepted, we run a simple credit check and then we can close. If you are local to the Bay Area, join us in our wonderful San Mateo office. If not, no worries! We can close remotely via Zoom or Google Hangouts.
It’s that easy.
Get liquidity today!
Life events won’t wait around for your company to IPO and restricted private stock isn’t an asset that traditional lenders will accept as collateral, but ESO offers a solution.If you partner with ESO on the shares you already own, we’ll advance cash to you based on the future potential of this stock. No payments are due unless there is a major liquidity event, such as a sale or IPO. If the stock becomes valueless, ESO takes the loss. This way you can have your cake and eat it too: getting liquidity now to pay for your life events, while retaining future upside potential
Here’s how our process works:
1. Intro Call
• Introduce yourself and your situation, and feel free to ask as many questions about ESO that you would like.
2. Get a personalized offer
• We will conduct due diligence and get back to you with our decision.
3. Close
• Once we extend an offer and the terms are accepted, we run a simple credit check and then we can close. If you are local to the Bay Area, join us in our wonderful San Mateo office. If not, no worries! We can close remotely via Zoom or Google Hangouts.
It’s that easy.
Get liquidity today!
Stock in venture backed private companies is generally illiquid. In other words, there is a limited market for the stock since it is not freely transferable or publicly traded.Owners of common stock in private companies such as founders, employees, consultants, and others who wanted to obtain cash for their stock have traditionally either had to wait for a company liquidity event (for example, a sale or IPO of the company) or sell employee stock options on the secondary market. Series Seed investors holders of preferred stock can also get relief.The problem with waiting for a liquidity event is that for many private companies, there will never be a liquidity event because the company will fail. And with a direct secondary sale of common stock, most buyers are interested only in large blocks of stock in “almost public companies” and when the stock is sold, the seller receives the purchase price so there is no opportunity for additional gain. ESO can significantly mitigate these risks by providing financing against the value of the stock. No payments are due unless and until there is a liquidity event involving the company that issued the shares, such as a sale or IPO. At that time, the owner of the stock and ESO share the upside of the liquidity event and ESO is repaid.An advance from ESO to provide liquidity on your existing stock allows owners of common stock in private companies to obtain immediate funds while retaining significant upside with minimal risk. If you’d like to know more about how ESO can help you monetize your private company stock, please contact us at the ESO Fund.
