Fairmint Shareholder's App: Start Here
This article is for investors, shareholders, and anyone who holds equity through Fairmint.
The Fairmint Shareholder's App is where your private equity lives. If a founder invited you to a SAFE, granted you stock options, or added you to their cap table, that position shows up here at app.fairmint.com. You can also bring in equity you hold somewhere else, so the whole picture sits in one place instead of scattered across old email threads.
Everything in the app sits behind one identity that you verify once. That identity carries across every company you hold equity in, so the next founder who invites you does not send you through the same checks again.
Who uses the Shareholder's App
Three kinds of people, often the same person wearing more than one hat:
Investors who put capital into a company through a SAFE, a note, a priced round, or a warrant.
Employees and advisors who were granted equity as compensation, whether options or restricted stock.
Existing shareholders added to a company's cap table, including people who invested long before that company moved onto Fairmint.
One login covers everything you hold, across every company. You do not need a separate account per role or per company.
The four areas of the app
Area | What it holds |
Investments | Capital you put in, grouped by company, with the terms and documents behind each position |
Equity Grants | Equity you earned rather than bought, with the vesting schedule on every grant |
Documents | The signed paperwork behind everything above, including files you uploaded yourself |
Profile | Your verified details, your wallet, and any companies or funds you hold equity through |
Where to go next
Setting up
Create your account and get verified covers signing up, confirming your phone, and what identity verification asks for. It also explains what you can and cannot do while a check is still processing.
Find your way around the Shareholder's App is a short tour of the four areas above.
Putting your equity in
Add equity you already own is for positions in companies that are not on Fairmint. Upload the paperwork and Fairmint reads the terms off the document.
Sign an investment and send your funds walks through a founder's invitation from the link they sent you to a completed investment.
Invest through a company, fund, or trust is for anyone who does not invest in their own name.
Managing your account
Your profile and your details explains what you can change yourself and what happens when you change the details recorded against your equity.
How Fairmint protects your equity covers who can see what you hold, and why nothing changes without you.
Terms used in these guides
Term | What it means |
Cap table | The record of who owns what in a company: shares, options, and convertible instruments |
SAFE | Simple Agreement for Future Equity. Money you invest now that converts into shares later, usually at the company's next priced round |
Priced round | A financing where shares are sold at an agreed price per share, rather than converting later |
Warrant | The right to buy shares at a set price within a set window |
Equity grant | Equity given as compensation rather than bought. Usually options or restricted stock |
ISO / NSO | Incentive Stock Option and Non-Qualified Stock Option. Two types of stock option, taxed differently |
RSU | Restricted Stock Unit. A promise of shares that lands once conditions, usually time, are met |
Vesting | The schedule by which granted equity becomes yours to keep, often over four years with a one-year cliff |
KYC / KYB | Know Your Customer and Know Your Business. The identity checks run on a person and on a company |
Entity | A company, fund, LLC, or trust that holds equity instead of a person |
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This article explains how to use the Fairmint platform. It is not legal, tax, or investment advice. Consult a qualified professional for questions about your specific situation.