Pre-IPO Advisors

Most of your net worth is in one stock you can't sell. Yet.

Tender offers, secondaries, option exercises, IPO lockups — the decisions are timed, irreversible, and taxed differently by instrument. We match employees at late-stage private and recently-public companies with fee-only fiduciary advisors who model the event before the window closes.

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Find your company

SpaceX

Public as of June 2026 (Nasdaq: SPCX). RSU settlement taxes, the staggered lockup calendar, and the diversification clock.

OpenAI

PPUs aren't ordinary equity. What's public about profit participation units — and what to ask before you sell.

Figma

Recently public: RSUs settled at the IPO, the lockup is behind you, and now the problem is concentration.

Anthropic, Stripe, Databricks & more

Company pages are added regularly. The decisions are the same shape — start with the tender-offer guide or talk to a specialist.

The questions that bring people here

  • A tender offer is open — how much should I sell, and what will I actually net after taxes?
  • Should I exercise options before a liquidity event — and what does AMT do to that math?
  • My company just IPO'd and my RSUs all settled at once — why is my tax bill bigger than my refund ever was?
  • The lockup expired. How fast do I diversify a position that's 80% of my net worth?
  • What are PPUs actually worth, and how would a sale be taxed?

Run the numbers first if you like: the tender-offer net-proceeds estimator shows gross → tax → net by instrument in about a minute.

Why a specialist (and why fee-only)

Most advisors see a tender offer or a double-trigger RSU settlement a handful of times in a career. Equity-comp specialists see them weekly: they model the event itself — sale sizing, exercise timing, AMT and its credit, estimated taxes across states, 10b5-1 design after the IPO — before the window closes. The difference between a planned and unplanned sale is routinely six figures of tax.

Every advisor we match is a fee-only fiduciary: paid by you, never by commissions, legally bound to act in your interest. No products, no asset-gathering quotas — just the event, modeled.

How it works

  1. Tell us about your equity. Company, instrument, rough size, and where you are in the event.
  2. We match you. A fee-only advisor who works these events follows up within one business day.
  3. You decide. First conversation is free. No obligation, and we never sell your information.

Get matched with an equity specialist

Free, confidential, no obligation — and if your window is open now, say so and we'll prioritize the intro.