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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Vestd: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vestd/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vestd/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vestd.md",
  "title": "Vestd: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Vestd is on the AI compensation software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Aug. 19, 2026.",
  "period": "June 15 to Aug. 19, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "vestd",
    "name": "Vestd",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://www.vestd.com/",
    "summary": "\"Equity at scale. Make ownership feel real.\" Vestd is a UK equity management platform for cap tables, EMI and other share schemes, HMRC filings, valuations and fundraising workflows, sold to founders, finance and HR teams. The AI is the Vestd MCP, which lets Claude and ChatGPT answer questions about a company's cap table, shares, options and filings from live data, plus an AI help assistant on its site.",
    "founded": 2014,
    "categories": [
      "equity"
    ],
    "status": "active",
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    "update_channels": [],
    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "merged_into": null,
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      "Equity management"
    ]
  },
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  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Equity at scale. Make ownership feel real.\" Vestd is a UK equity management platform for cap tables, EMI and other share schemes, HMRC filings, valuations and fundraising workflows, sold to founders, finance and HR teams. The AI is the Vestd MCP, which lets Claude and ChatGPT answer questions about a company's cap table, shares, options and filings from live data, plus an AI help assistant on its site.",
    "source": {
      "name": "vestd.com",
      "url": "https://www.vestd.com/"
    },
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      "map": "compensation-software",
      "title": "The AI compensation software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-vestd",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Vestd",
      "site": "https://www.vestd.com/",
      "category": "Equity management",
      "what": "\"Equity at scale. Make ownership feel real.\" Vestd is a UK equity management platform for cap tables, EMI and other share schemes, HMRC filings, valuations and fundraising workflows, sold to founders, finance and HR teams. The AI is the Vestd MCP, which lets Claude and ChatGPT answer questions about a company's cap table, shares, options and filings from live data, plus an AI help assistant on its site.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "vestd.com",
        "url": "https://www.vestd.com/"
      },
      "price": "Not published on the pages read.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Equity administration",
          "MCP or agent API"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (First institutional round, a growth investment from Foresight Group, announced June 2026; amount not disclosed. Own AI page says FCA-authorised and ISO 27001 certified.)",
      "founded": "2014",
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        {
          "name": "vestd.com",
          "url": "https://www.vestd.com/"
        },
        {
          "name": "vestd.com",
          "url": "https://www.vestd.com/ai-information"
        },
        {
          "name": "vestd.com",
          "url": "https://www.vestd.com/mcp-server"
        },
        {
          "name": "vestd.com",
          "url": "https://www.vestd.com/blog/vestd-mcp-release"
        },
        {
          "name": "vestd.com",
          "url": "https://www.vestd.com/blog/vestd-raises-its-first-institutional-round-with-foresight-group"
        }
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vestd/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-08-19",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vestd launches an MCP server",
      "summary": "Vestd built an MCP server so an AI agent such as Claude or ChatGPT can pull a company's live cap table, options, governance, filings and documents under the user's own permissions.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI compensation software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-vestd"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.vestd.com/blog/vestd-mcp-release"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/vestd/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-06-15",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Vestd takes its first institutional round from Foresight Group",
      "summary": "Vestd announced a growth investment from Foresight Group, a FTSE 250 investment manager, its 'first institutional round after ten years'. The amount is not disclosed. Vestd says AI is already deployed tactically across the business.",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
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        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-vestd"
      },
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        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://www.vestd.com/blog/vestd-raises-its-first-institutional-round-with-foresight-group"
      }
    }
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