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ESOP for Founders

Difference between ESOPs & Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs)

Stock Appreciation Rights or SARs are picking up momentum in India and you would have recently read about serial entrepreneur, Jiten Gupta’s startup Jupiter.money adopting Stock Appreciation Rights for their…

What is Exercise Tax? How to calculate it

Exercise tax incidence arises only when an employee is granted ESOPs and he/she exercises these equity grants. Note that there is no tax implication during the vesting period. Upon exercise,…

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The pitfalls of ESOP lifelines at startups

Before they started Udaan, a marketplace platform that facilitates trade between businesses, in 2016, the company’s three founders, Amod Malviya, Sujeet Kumar, and Vaibhav Gupta, had completed successful stints at…

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Who is eligible to receive ESOPs in India?

ESOPs are long term incentive schemes that are made available to certain employees as a gesture of faith and with a promise for outsized returns. While the employer can minimize…

Webinars

#LetsTalkESOP | ESOPs versus Phantom Stocks

In a webinar with MyStartupEquity, Siddarth Pai (Founding Partner & CFO of 3one4 Capital) spoke about the importance of equity grants (such as ESOPs) in startups. From a VC perspective,…

What is the difference between Sweat Equity & ESOPs

“Sweat Equity” shares mean equity shares issued by a company to its employees or directors at a discount or for consideration other than cash. In other words, it refers to…

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Oyo announces ESOPs for all furloughed employees impacted by COVID-19

Hospitality firm Oyo is granting employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) worth a total of around Rs 130 crore to all its furloughed employees impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic as part…

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#LetsTalkESOP | Designing an ESOP Policy

Did you think only tech startups have an ESOP policy? Think again! Here’s the story of Cloudnine Group – a hospital chain that has grown to be one of the…

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ESOP Accounting & Bookkeeping

There is a pandora of misconception around ESOP accounting treatment, the requirement of valuation reports and disclosure etc. across the startup ecosystem. Companies provide ESOPs to employees to buy the…

ESOP for Founders

Top 5 things to think about while creating your ESOP Scheme document

ESOS (Employee Stock Option Scheme) or ESOP Scheme is the main legal document that covers all the rules and regulations governing the process for ESOPs in your company. The Scheme…