# Cake Equity: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity/
Covers: Sept. 17 to 27, 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Cake Equity: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity/, updated 2026-11-11

> Cake Equity is on the AI compensation software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 27, 2026.

"The equity platform for growing startups." Cake Equity runs cap tables, option and RSU grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, 409A valuations and an employee app, and sells to founders, finance and HR teams at startups. The AI is Cake MCP, which answers cap table questions in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, Cake Intelligence, which watches deadlines and drafts reminders, and an AI document scanner for equity contracts. Source: [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/)
- Founded: [2017](https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity)
- Category: Equity management
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI compensation software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity)

"The equity platform for growing startups." Cake Equity runs cap tables, option and RSU grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, 409A valuations and an employee app, and sells to founders, finance and HR teams at startups. The AI is Cake MCP, which answers cap table questions in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, Cake Intelligence, which watches deadlines and drafts reminders, and an AI document scanner for equity contracts. Source: [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/).

- Category: Equity management
- Price: Published: free up to 5 stakeholders; Build $1,000 a year; Team $2,750 a year, which adds AI access (MCP); higher plan is custom.
- AI capabilities: Equity administration and MCP or agent API
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Own pages claim 10,000+ companies and a 4.8/5 G2 rating from 145+ reviews. Funding amount not disclosed.)
- Founded: 2017

Sources: [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/), [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/cake-intelligence), [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/features/mcp), [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/features/ai-document-scanner), [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/changelog), [cakeequity.com](https://cakeequity.com/pricing) and [1 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Cake is listed in Claude's connector directory

Launch, Sept. 27, 2026. Cake is now in Claude's connector directory, so a user can connect it once and ask about the cap table from any chat with no setup.

Source: [Vendor changelog](https://cakeequity.com/changelog). From [the AI compensation software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity).

### Cake MCP lets AI tools query the cap table

Launch, Sept. 17, 2026. Cake's changelog says Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor or any MCP client can connect to Cake and answer cap table questions from the live cap table, with no export.

Source: [Vendor changelog](https://cakeequity.com/changelog). From [the AI compensation software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology